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The Southern Octopus: The Rise of a Shipping Empire by Gavin Mclean
$55.00 NZD
Category: Shipping | Reading Level: very good
The Era of Coastal Shipping in New Zealand: The Small Motor Ships by Murray Jennings
$45.00 NZD
Category: Shipping | Reading Level: very good
For many years the transport of goods between New Zealand towns was done by ships which would voyage from one port to another. Gradually as roads improved this trade died. The introduction of the inter-island roll-on roll-off ferries in 1962 finally killed most coastal trade. Many small ports simply cea ...Show more
Kriegsmarine - The Illustrated History of the German Navy in WW II by Robert Jackson (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
Covering all classes of vessel, and all theatres of war, from the sorties into the Atlantic by the capital ships Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, to the actions of the E-boats in the English Channel and the Mediterranean.
Captain Cook in New Zealand. Extracts from the journals of Captain James Cook giving a full account in his own words of his adventures and discoveries in New Zealand by A. H. and A. W. Reed (eds)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
White Wings: Volume I - Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850-1900 and Volume II - Founding of the Provinces and Old-Time Shipping. Passenger Ships from 1840 to1845 by Henry Brett
$180.00 NZD
Category: rare & collectable | Reading Level: good-very good
The Voyaging Stars Secrets of the Pacific Island Navigators by David Lewis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good
Survive the Savage Sea by Dougal Robertson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Sailing | Series: Sailing Classics | Reading Level: very good
After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, and rations for only three days, they used every survival technique they could as they battled 20-foot wav ...Show more
Crew Culture: New Zealand Seafarers under Sail and Steam: New Zealand and Seafarers under Sail and Steam (Out of Print) by Neill Atkinson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
For the first time, here is a book that looks at the work and lives of merchant seafarers - often described in their own words. The harsh realities of shipboard life, the colourful lore and language of the sea, the struggle for control and the rise of unionism, the lively world of the waterfront, and th ...Show more
The Pamir Under the New Zealand Ensign by Jack Churchouse
$85.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
