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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.
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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more