Mutiny! - The Real History of the H. M. S. Bounty by John Barrow; Edward E. Leslie (Introduction by)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: near fine

On April 28th, 1789, a handful of men led by Fletcher Christian mutinied aboard the HMS Bounty, setting her captain, William Bligh, and 18 other men adrift, then vanishing into the Pacific Ocean. This is the story of the mutiny that became a landmark case in naval history.

Mutiny On the Bounty by Rolf Harris

$14.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

Nat's Nat and That's That: A Surfing Legend by Nat Young

$16.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: good-very good

Nat Young's incomparable autobiography now in paperback.

The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook

$14.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals am ply reveal the determination, courage and skill which enabled Cook to wrestle with the continuous dangers of uncharted seas and the problems of achieving a relationship with the peoples whose unannounced guest he became. This edition, abridged from the definitive four-volume collection published by the Hakluyt Society, makes Cook's inimitable personal account of his nine years of voyaging widely accessible for the first time. The selection preserves the spirit and rhythm of the full narrative, as well as Cook's idiosyncratic spelling. Philip Edwards gives an introduction to each voyage together with maps, a glossary of unusual words and indexes of people and places. A postscript offers a full assessment of the controversies surrounding Cook's death. ...Show more

Wild Rivers - Rafting and Canoeing Adventures in New Zealand by John Mackay

$25.00 NZD

Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good

With the Wind Behind Us - Stories that made New Zealand a sailing nation by Matt Elliott

$20.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: near fine

From red socks to kauri yachts, these are the stories that made New Zealand Aotearoa a sailing nation. Stretching back to the Pacific navigators and the great migrations from Polynesia to the humble 'P' class dinghy and the world-beating success of Team New Zealand: With the Wind Behind Us is a celebrat ion of the stories that gave us our legendary sailing reputation. ...Show more

The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk - Adventures in the China Seas

$15.00 NZD

Category: America | Series: The Lakeside Classics #93 | Reading Level: near fine

Islands of the Gulf by Shirley Maddock

$10.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: good

The all-time classic telling of life in the 1960s Hauraki Gulf In 1964 trailblazing author Shirley Maddock and photographer Don Whyte made an extraordinary voyage around the Hauraki Gulf, documenting its people and places. This was a watershed moment in New Zealand history where New Zealanders were give n the opportunity to see themselves, not just in the pages of this book but also on screen. It was a time when the way of life on the Gulf islands was a resourceful one, largely cut-off from the outside world. The best-selling and much loved Islands of the Gulf is a precious record of a bygone era, and an enchanting must-have for New Zealand households, baches and boats. Right on Auckland's doorstep, across 4000 square kilometres of ocean lie some 40 islands - more if you count the gannet perches. In the early 1960s Shirley Maddock joined Captain Fred Ladd, the pilot whose jaunty seaplanes served those isolated island communities, to film New Zealand's first (locally produced) documentary series, Islands of the Gulf, publishing a book of the same name. Maddock would visit everyone from farmers to gumdiggers, rangers to nurses, flying through the morning haze to the rugged battlements of Great Barrier and the dim, bluish mound of Little Barrier; over the top of North Head to the bone white tower of the light on Tiritiri Matangi; beyond to Kawau, east to Rakino and the little Noises; south-east to the long golden lengths of Waiheke and Ponui, and last to the clouded peaks of the Moehau Ranges; and nearer to the inner harbour islands of Motutapu and Motuihe, Brown's Island with its lopped-off crater and, at the entrance to the Gulf, the last great volcano, Rangitoto. This new 2017 edition is being published to coincide with the remake of Islands of the Gulf showing on TV ONE prime-time later this year with Shirley Maddock's daughter, actress and writer, Elisabeth Easther. ...Show more

The Expedition of the St.Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific 1769-1770 from Journals of Jean de Surville and Guillaume Labe by John Dunmore

$30.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

Mariners Are Warned! - John Lort Stokes and H. M. S. Beagle in Australia, 1837-1843 by Marsden Hordern

$45.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Series: Miegunyah Press Ser. | Reading Level: very good

John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office in 1837 to survey and chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline. He was the last Royal Navy surveyor to hold such a roving commission-as had Matthew Flinders and Phillip Parker King before him. The voyage lasted six years and his ship was H.M.S. Beagle, of Charles Darwin fame. Stokes circumnavigated Australia twice. In the north he discovered the Fitzroy, Albert and Flinders rivers and Port Darwin, and in the south charted that graveyard of sailing ships, Bass Strait. A century later, twelve of his charts were still in use. The occasional breathtaking foolhardiness of this earnest and conscientious man startles the reader, as it must have done his men. On a whim, Stokes twice risked drowning himself and others with him, and he made several daredevil escapes from crocodiles. The stories are gripping, and Marsden Hordern is a gifted and vigorous storyteller. He is ably assisted by the ship's mate, Helpman-a chatty, witty chronicler. Mariners are Warned! is an engrossing biography, written with empathy by a fellow mariner. Winner of the Age Book of the Year; Victorian Premier's Literary Award (A. A. Phillips Award for Australian Studies); Braille Book of the Year; Australian Maritime History Prize. Companion volume to King of the Australian Coast, another prize-winning maritime biography by the same author. ...Show more

Fellowship of Three by A. W. Beasley

$16.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

Storms and Dreams: Louis De Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman by John Dunmore

$30.00 NZD

Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good

Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. Throughout a long and distinguished life, however, he participated in many of the turning points of world history: the birth of the United States, the fall of French Canada, the opening of the Pacific, the French revolution and the Revolutionary Wars, the crowning of Napoleon and the modernisation of France . Bougainville was also a witty and charming courtier, becoming one of Napoleon's senators. A true Man of the Enlightenment, he was gifted in navigation, seamanship, soldiering, mathematics, longitude and latitude – many of the arts that made his age one of most productive and creative in modern history. John Dunmore, a distinguished historian and an expert in French Pacific exploration, brings the man and his era to life in this vivid and elegantly written biography. ...Show more