Glamour Ships of the Union Steam Ship Company NZ Ltd by Jack Churchouse
$30.00 NZD
Category: Shipping | Reading Level: very good
This illustrated history of New Zealand's outstanding maritime company attempts to bring back some of that past era. It features the most outstanding of the Company's passenger ships over 85 years followinf the Company's inception in 1875
The Voyage of the Cuttyhunk by Maribelle Cormack
$10.00 NZD
Category: Education | Series: P & S Serial No. 9 | Reading Level: very good
Standard of Power - The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century by Dan Van Der Vat
$16.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial and compelling survey of the Royal Navy in the twentieth century by a widely praised modern historian. Dan van der Vat, author of authoritative bestselling books on the Titanic and the history of the submarine, has now produced an enthralling and thoroughly researched history of the Royal ...Show more
Canterbury Jubilee Celebrations Old Colnists Committee - Passenger Lists of Canterbury Association ships arrivineg before 15th March 1853
$50.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: good
A Spirit Companion - Celebrating the First 50 Years of the Spirit of Adventure Trust by Roger McDonald
$35.00 NZD
Category: Sailing | Reading Level: near fine
For 50 years, people from all walks of life have stepped aboard first the Spirit of Adventure, and today the Spirit of New Zealand Te Waka Herenga Tangata o Aotearoa, for a voyage of personal discovery. They've had fun, made friends, and been given a taste of expanded possibility. Distinguished author R ...Show more
The Encircled Sea - The Mediterranean maritime civilisation by Sarah Arenson
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Trapped in Ice! - An Amazing True Whaling Adventure by Martin W. Sandler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this true story that reads as action-adventure, learn how 1,219 members of the world's largest whaling expedition managed to survive after becoming entrapped within an Arctic ice shelf. In the late summer of 1871, thirty-nine whaling ships traveled to the frigid Arctic waters in search of the prized ...Show more
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$8.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: good
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
Beyond the Capes - Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the 'Challenger', 1776-1877 by Ernest S. Dodge
$16.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: good-very good
Voyages of Discovery - Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Lynne Withey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good