Rocking the Boat: A History of Scales Corporation by Gavin McLean

$45.00 NZD

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Scales Corporation Limited is a major shipping agent, cool store operator, pet food processor and apple grower. But for most of its history, the core business, Geo. H. Scales Ltd., was a decidedly quirky venture. It began as a farmers

Phantom Fleet - The Scows and Scowmen of Auckland by Ted Ashby

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Australian and New Zealand Shipwrecks and Sea Tragedies by Hugh Edwards

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New Zealand Shipwrecks 195 Years of Disasters at Sea by C.W.N. Ingram (Compiled by)

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Huddart Parker - A Famous Australasian Shipping Company 1876-1961 by W. A. Laxon

$40.00 NZD

Category: Shipping | Reading Level: near fine

The Perano Whalers of Cook Strait, 1911-1964 by Don Grady

$30.00 NZD

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Vanished Fleets: Sea Stories from Old Van Diemen's Land by Alan Villiers

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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - The History and Discovery of America's Richest Shipwreck by Gary Kinder

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4 cassettes / 5 hours Read by Bruce Davison "The Central America was as sensational a shipwreck in its century as theTitanicwas in ours." --The Washington Post Bestselling author Gary Kinder tells, for the first time, an extraordinary tale of history, maritime drama, heroic rescue, scientific ingenuit y, and individual courage.  Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Seais the riveting true account of death, danger, and discovery on the high seas in the dramatic search for America's greatest lost treasure. In September 1857, the side-wheel streamer S.S. Central America, carrying five hundred passengers and tons of gold from the mountains of California, sank in a hurricane off the Carolina coast.  Lost in legend for more than a century, the tragic story resurfaced in 1989, when Tommy Thompson, a brilliant ocean engineer, sailed into Norfolk harbor with more than ten tons of pioneer old.  Using a combination of oceanography, computer science, and information theory to sift through historical records and penetrate the deep sea, Thompson's team had recovered the mint-state coins, antique bars, and sparkling gold dust from 8,000 feet below the surface of the sea - proving wrong everyone who said it couldn't be done and establishing mankind's first read working presence on the deep ocean floor.  It was, asLifemagazine proclaimed "The greatest treasure ever found," and its dollar value has currently been estimated in the hundreds of millions. This AudioBook is a copiously historical record of the disaster, rendered in chilling detail with diaries from the survivors and eyewitness accounts, as well as newspaper reports from the worst peacetime at-sea disaster in American history.  It is a chronicle of the technological breakthrough in which deep-sea robots were developed to perform complex work.  Ant it is an incredibly exciting adventure story of how a team of scientists and engineers, the Columbus-America Discovery Group, battled massive storms, technological challenges, and intrusive salvages on the open seas to find the lost treasure.   It is a fascinating story both of the power of the human will to succeed and of technological triumph. ...Show more

An Atlas History of Australian Shipwrecks (State-By-State Including Maps and Diving Notes) by Jack Kenneth Loney

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Wilful Murder: the Sinking of the Lusitania by Diana Preston

$18.00 NZD

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On May 7th, 1915 a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic sank with the loss of 1200 lives. On board were some world-famous figures, including multimillionaire Alfred Vanderbilt. But this wasn

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

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From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature. ...Show more

Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster by Steven Biel

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Everyone from suffragists to their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets found moral and cultural lessons in the sinking of the Ti tanic. In a new edition that both commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the disaster and elaborates, in a revised afterword, on the ship's continued impact on the public imagination (evidenced by the Titanic mania evoked by James Cameron's 1997 film), Steven Biel explores the Titanic in all its complexity and contradictions. ...Show more