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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
The Pandora Survey. The completion of the 1848-1856 Great Survey of New Zealand by HMS Pandora together with an account of its genesis and initial phase by Brian Byrne
$165.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: near fine
The 1848-1856 Great Survey of New Zealand, carried out initially by Captain John Stokes in HMS Acheron between 1848-51 and completed by Commander Byron Drury in HMS Pandora between 1851-56, yielded "one of the most magnificent of the many productions of the English Navy". An opinion first expressed in 1 ...Show more
Wayfarer & Warrior: The Monowai Story by Jack S. Harker
$20.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
'The Monowai' holds a special place in the hearts of many New Zealanders, Americans and assorted members of the British Commonwealth armed forces. Both Monowais were the latest liners of their times and both served as troopships - from the Boer War to World War I, and the Pacific and D-Day theatres of W ...Show more
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Allen Lane History S. | Reading Level: very good
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog is a spectacular recreation of three of the greatest and most startling of all human journeys. The Pacific voyages of James Cook explored the ice-bound fringes of the Arctic and Antarctic, sailed across perilous tropical seas, survived hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, dis ...Show more
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific by James Cook
$10.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: fair
"No man ever did more to alter and correct the map of the Earth," writes Percy Adams in his new Introduction, than James Cook, the Scotland-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically uncharted Pacific. ...Show more
The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks: Volume I by J. C. Beaglehole (ed.)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: good to very good
The Ship: Retracing Cook's Endeavour Voyage by Simon Baker
$25.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
The story of Captain Cook's voyage. Hardback
Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779 by Glyndwr Williams (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
Captain James Cook: A Biography by Richard Hough
$20.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
James Cook, born in 1728, rose from the lowest ranks of the merchant marine, then through the Royal Navy, to become one of the most celebrated men of his time, the last and the greatest of the romantic navigator/explorers. His voyages to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and ...Show more
Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas (Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmith's College, University of London)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
Captain James Cook was one of the greatest sea explorers of all time. His epic voyages charted the islands of the Pacific, defined the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia, and ventured into both Arctic and Antarctic ice. His men suffered near shipwreck, were ravaged by tropical diseases and surv ...Show more