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Rebel Down Under: When The 'shenandoah' Shook Melbourne, 1865
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the summer of 1865, the Confederate commerce raider CSS...
One Of Our Warships
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the quarterdeck to the engine room, One of Our Warships immerses the reader in the tightly-knit world of a Royal Navy vessel, chronicling...
Up Periscope
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the silent, crushing depths of...
The Loss Of The Royal George
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1782, one of Britain's mightiest warships heeled without warning and sank at anchor in Portsmouth Harbour — taking with her...
Nelson
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in British history command the sea of myth and reverence that surrounds Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, and...
The Life And Times Of Lord Mountbatten
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century British history cut as dramatic a silhouette as Louis Mountbatten — naval commander, Supreme Allied Commander...
The Admiral's Wife: Mrs Phillip Parker King; A Selection Of Letters 1817-56
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Admiral's Wife opens a rare and intimate window into the life of Mrs Phillip Parker King, the...
Setting Sails: A Tribute To The Chinese Junk
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew vessels in human history carry the romantic and functional legacy of the Chinese junk — a ship that conquered the vast Pacific centuries...
The Royal Australian Navy: Historic Naval Events Year By Year
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the first fleet of ironclads to the modern nuclear age, The Royal Australian Navy: Historic Naval Events Year by...
The Wind Is Free: A History Of The Royal Geelong Yacht Club
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the sparkling waters of Corio Bay in Victoria, Australia, The Wind is Free: A History of The Royal Geelong Yacht Club chronicles...
Opening The Oceans
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before satellites and GPS, brave navigators charted the world's vast, unforgiving oceans armed with nothing but ingenuity, courage, and crude instruments — and...
Wings Over The Sea: A History Of Naval Aviation
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the earliest experiments with floatplanes and flying boats to the jet-powered carrier operations of the Cold War era, Wings Over the...
The Royal Australian Navy: An Illustrated History
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-drenched shores of Sydney Harbour to the treacherous waters of the Coral Sea and beyond, The Royal Australian Navy: An Illustrated History...
Sail In The South: The Great Days Of Sail Around Australia And New Zealand
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the age of sail, the Southern Ocean roared with the white canvas of magnificent tall ships threading their way through the...
The Shame of Savo: Anatomy of a Naval Disaster
For more than half a century, an air of innuendo, accusation and mystery has surrounded the Battle of Savo Island, fought off the southern Solomon Islands during the early morning...
A Brief History of Fighting Ships
This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line -...
Bywater
It is widely believed that Japan's opening gambit in World War II was conceived by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Japan. However, this book sets out to show that it...
The Captain
$15.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingThe high seas have never been more treacherous than in the world conjured by Alexei Novikov-Priboi in...
This Peculiar Colony
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the late eighteenth century, a ragged fleet of British ships deposited a cast of convicts, marines, and administrators onto the sun-scorched shores of...
The Bells Of Sunda Strait
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the dark, desperate hours of February 1942, the Sunda Strait became the grave of some of the most gallant...
The Armada
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the summer of 1588, the fate of Protestant Europe hung by a...
Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts (SIGNED)
$65.00 AUD
Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhen Ernest Shackleton's name is invoked, history remembers the man at the centre of the storm — but Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts...
The Goodwin Sands
$65.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew stretches of sea have claimed as many ships — and as many lives — as the treacherous Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile...
Reported Safe Arrival: The Journal Of A Voyage To Port "X"
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the grand tradition of wartime voyage narratives, Reported Safe Arrival: The Journal of a Voyage to Port X chronicles a gripping seafaring journey...
The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus': Also Typhoon And The Shadow Line
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJoseph Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' stands as one of the most viscerally powerful sea...
The Flying Sailor
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew memoirs capture the intersection of sky and sea with such electrifying clarity as The Flying Sailor, the remarkable autobiography...
Australia Under Siege: Japanese Submarine Raiders 1942
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the darkest days of World War II, the waters surrounding Australia became a battleground as...
Pictorial History Of The Fleet Air Arm
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched decks of aircraft carriers to the freezing Arctic convoys, Pictorial History of the Fleet Air Arm chronicles the dramatic story of...
Royal Australian Navy 1942-1945
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the crucible of the Pacific War, the Royal Australian Navy faced its most gruelling and defining years — and G. Hermon...
A Log Of Great Australian Ships
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the sun-drenched harbours of Sydney to the wild southern swells of the Bass Strait, A Log of Great Australian...
Riverboats And Rivermen
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedLong before roads and railways stitched Australia together, a fleet of steam-powered paddleboats ruled the mighty Murray-Darling river system, and Riverboats and Rivermen chronicles this...
Home Is The Sailor
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket, faded spine. Page Condition: Yellowed with some...
The Attack On Taranto
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. On the night of 11 November 1940, twenty-one Swordfish torpedo bombers launched from...
A Book Of Sea Journeys
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The ocean has always been humanity's greatest frontier — wild, unforgiving, and...
The Battle Of The Philippine Sea
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. In June 1944, the vast expanse of the Pacific...
Epic Sea Battles
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, chipped and worn with some minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Good. Epic Sea Battles by William Koenig...
Australia And New Zealand Complete Book Of Boating
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm. For sailors, powerboaters, and water enthusiasts across the...
Piloting, Seamanship And Small Boat Handling
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages. For generations of mariners, both amateur and seasoned,...
Journal Of A Voyage To The South-Seas
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Plastic binding protector has some tears along folds. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight...
To The Honour Of The Fleet
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. To the Honour of the Fleet by Robert H. Pilpel...
Sir Francis Drake
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Page Condition: yellowed with tanning. Markings: Remainder mark. **He was a pirate to his enemies and a hero to his queen...
Historic Ships Of Australia: A Third Book Of Paintings, Poetry And Prose (SIGNED)
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Signed — signature of Dacre Smyth present on the title page. Binding condition: Good. The sea has always...
Navy Australia
$35.00 AUD
Edition: 5th ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Sticker affixed on rear endpaper. From the sun-drenched harbours of Sydney to...
Sea War In The Pacific
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded, one tear at back. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The vast, unforgiving waters of the...
Wreckers Smugglers And Pirates: In South Eastern Australian Waters
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Some yellowing. Markings: Signed with inscription. Binding condition: Good. The treacherous coastal waters of south-eastern Australia were once a theatre...
Jane's Fighting Ships Of World War I
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Hardcover - dust jacket Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges....
The Life and Letters of Emma Hamilton: The Story of Admiral Nelson and
Emma, Lady Hamilton, rose from poverty to become a media celebrity, and her relationship with Admiral Nelson, and her renowned beauty, made her the most instantly-recognisable woman of her era,...