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| Carter, Jennifer; Hirschhorn, Joel: Titanic Adventure: One Woman's True Life Voyage Down to the Legendary Ocean Liner
Book Number: 42870
New Horizon Press 1999 8vo. Hardcover in d/w. Ex-library. 324pp. Very good conditions except for ex-library with usual stamps and marks.
Keywords: First woman to dive the Titanic
Price: $12.00 |
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| Van Der Zee, Hendrick as told to him by his friend Harry Drake: The Mucky Ducks
Book Number: 42876
Zeus Publicatons 2004 8vo. Softcover. 291pp. Ex-library, with stamps and marks. Reading copy. On average, every day of the year a ship over 3000 GRT either is sunk or disappears without trace. Although many of these events are accidents or weather related, many more have a human hand involved.
Set into the background of the South Pacific and Asia; the ‘Sea Eagles’ or ‘Mucky Ducks’, as they preferred to be called, was a small organisation that initially earned its money by investigating the suspicious demise of some vessels and trying to prevent the deliberate destruction of others.
However over a period of time their work grew to include many other aspects of the dark side of the world at sea. This included arms and people smuggling, drug trafficking and insurance fraud. In later years they met their biggest challenge as Modern Pirates grew to be a global menace.
Keywords: Pirates, Mercenairies
Price: $12.00 |
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| FARRINGTON, Tony: RESCUE IN THE PACIFIC, A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm
Book Number: 42930
McGraw Hill 1995 8vo. Hardcover in d/w both very good, 273pp. Signed by Author. Index. 1994 cruising regatta from New Zealand to Tonga. Illustrated with photo's, lists, weather maps.
Keywords: shipwrecks, South Pacific, Survival after airplain accidents, shipwrecks.
Price: $22.00 |
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| Goring, Loris: Marine Inboard Engines - Petrol and Diesel - Motorboats Monthly
Book Number: 42931
Adlard Coles 1990 sm. 4to. Laminated softcover. 190pp. Index. If you quake at the thought of looking under your engine hatch, this book is the answer to your problems. Marine Inboard Engines should enable every owner to spot problems, know when they can be remedied easily, and be able to maintain a petrol or diesel engine to maximise its life and avoid breakdown at sea.
Keywords: inboard engines, motor boats,
Price: $28.00 |
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| Svensen, Randi: Wooden Boats, Iron Men: The Halvorsen Story
Book Number: 42998
Halstead P. February 2005 8vo hardcover 192pp near fine. Signed by Randi Svensen and her Uncles, Carl Magnus and Trygve and her Aunt Elenor Bruem. History of Australia's famous boatbuilding family. 4 sketch-plans, 78 b/w and 36 colour photos.
Keywords: Wooden Boats Iron Men The Halvorsen Story Svensen Randi, Lars Halvosen, Family, Boatbuilding New South Wales, Yacht Building NSW, Tacht Racing, Australian National Maratime Museum.
Price: $100.00 |
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| LUCAS, Alan.: CRUISING THE NEW SOUTH WALES COAST
Book Number: 43290
Alan Lucas Cruising Guides 1995. 4th edition 4to. softcover. 252pp, well illus with sketch maps and photographs. Very good, front cover edges slightly curled. guide to ports, anchorages, rivers and lakes for cruisers, yachts and trailer craft. Includes Lorde Howe island.
Keywords: australia cruising maritime New South Wales sailing
Price: $25.00 |
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| Cunliffe, Barry: The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek - The Man Who Discovered Britain
Book Number: 43297
Penguin Books January 2002 8vo softcover 183pp very good. Index. Some 2300 years ago a Greek adventurer named Pytheas set out on an astonishing expedition; to find out what lay in the fabled lands of Northern Europe. Rumours abounded of these fearsome barbarian territories, but Pytheas was the first literate man ever to visit them. here Cunliffe re-creates his staggering journey as he sailed to the islands of Britannia, home of our distant ancestors, the tattooed folk, and beyond all the way to Ultima Thule, the mysterious Arctic limits of the known world.
Keywords: administration of greed american history traitor world war ii korean war history american revolution revolutionary war globalization classics The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek Cunliffe Barry
Price: $12.00 |
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| PARSONS, Ronald.: SAIL IN THE SOUTH - The Great Days of Sail around Australia and New Zealand.
Book Number: 43422
Adelaide. 1975. Rigby. 4to. hardcover. 207pp. with 214 b/w photos. Very good. / very good d/w. A selection from the "A.D. Edwardes" collection of shipping photos in the State Library of South Australia.
Keywords: Photo's from the Edwards collection, Australian general history sea sail photo
Price: $30.00 |
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| Sanders, Michael S.: The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works
Book Number: 43456
HarperCollins October 6, 1999 8vo Hardcover in d/w. 272pp very good. Index. Illustrated end pages. Illustrated with diagram of ship and in-text b&w photo's. Michael S. Sanders describes the birth of a ship with the love of a parent, relating how the naval destroyer USS Donald Cook was "assembled over four years piece by piece, steel plate by steel plate, from the first half-moon slices of keel to topmost radar mast, almost by hand." The Yard is a land-based tale focusing on the thousands of men and women in Bath, Maine, who practice the old craft of shipbuilding. Their business has adapted itself to modern ways, but Sanders intriguingly shows how ancient Phoenicians would nevertheless recognize important parts of today's construction process. Sanders spends plenty of time explaining what goes into making a ship: the engineering, the materials, and the labor. He also tells of an industry in peril, as American shipyards compete against foreign builders whose governments subsidize their work. Yet The Yard is ultimately about ordinary people who build: "electricians, pipefitters, welders, braziers, tinknockers, riggers, anglesmiths, straighteners, blasters, and shipfitters" plus "legions of naval architects, draftsmen, and marine engineers." The Yard may lack the dazzle of Blind Man's Bluff and its stories of submarine espionage, but it will hold a similarly strong attraction for readers drawn to human endeavor on the open sea and what makes it possible. small remainder mark.
Keywords: ww2bl british history england history iron submarine war world war ii The Yard Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works Sanders Michael S
Price: $14.00 |
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| Hansen, Erik Fosnes: Psalm at Journey's End - A Titanic Story
Book Number: 43492
Seeker and Warburg 1997 8vo softcover 352pp very good. Among the many myths surrounding the 1912 sinking of the Titanic was the notion that the ship's band played on until the end. Norwegian novelist Erik Fosnes Hansen has seized upon that story as the hinge for this fascinating, if at times distressing, book about the musicians aboard the fatal voyage. The fictional band members, who hail from across Europe, find a certain kinship on the vessel besides that of a life spent chasing musical dreams. Their lives, each treated almost as novellas, reflect the tragedies the war will soon bring to Europe. The whole event is played out metaphorically in the tales of simple people involved in tragic events. Skilled research and impressionistic prose are expertly mixed into a poetic, absorbing story in Norwegian writer Hansen's novel. As in the recent Maiden Voyage by Cynthia Bass, the stage is set on the doomed Titanic's voyage from Southampton in April 1912. Hansen's characters are the band musicians, celebrated in Titanic lore, who continued playing as the ship went down. Rather than speculate about the actual people, whose names and lives are known, he has invented characters assembled from diverse parts of Britain, Russia and the continent. The complex past of five of these musicians is woven into the tale of the fateful crossing. These are men drowning in emotional turbulence and desolation, a metaphorical foreshadowing of their actual fate. Their stories are ablaze with the drama of love gone awry and talents not fully realized, but Hansen also uses them to speculate on the larger themes of responsibility and fate, reason and faith. He writes with fierce energy, creating emotional landscapes that may make one think of the evocative scenes and brilliant colors of Turner paintings. In all, it's a brilliant piece of storytelling.
Keywords: Psalm at Journey's End Hansen Erik Fosnes
Price: $12.00 |
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