Fitzroy of the Beagle by H E L Mellersh

$25.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: good-very good

Voyages and Adventures of La Perouse from the fourteenth edition of the F. Valentin abridgment, Tours, 1875, translated from the French by Julius S. Gassner by F. Valentin; Julius S Gassner

$20.00 NZD

Category: Nautical

The Flying Farmer - Remarkable Rural Recollections of Bruce Galloway: A Memoir by Bruce Galloway

$20.00 NZD

Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: near fine

The Dalton Journal - Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829 by Niel Gunson (Editor)

$16.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: good-very good

The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N - In Command of H.M.S. Grampus-50 Guns at Hawaii and on Station in Tahiti and the Society Islands, August 1846 to August 1847 by Henry Byam Martin

$25.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good

Impact Erebus by Gordon Vette; John Macdonald; Peter Mahon; Stuart Macfarlane

$20.00 NZD

Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good

A Voyage in the Sunbeam - Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Anna Brassey

$16.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

From Cow Bells to Bell Bottoms - Wartime Experiences by Francis Bentinck Heffer

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Daughters of Erebus by Paul Holmes

$20.00 NZD

Category: Aviation | Reading Level: very good

The technical side of what happened on Mt Erebus on that fateful November day back in 1979 has been brilliantly explained by Justice Mahon, the Royal Commissioner appointed to investigate the crash of the Air New Zealand DC-10. His magnificent investigation and conclusions were rubbished by a Prime Mini ster desperate to remove blame from Air New Zealand who, as Prime Minister and Finance Minister, was desperate to save the airline, to save its face and its possible financial ruin as a result of negligence claims. Without a doubt, the airline was grossly negligent in changing the navigation co-ordinates early in the morning on the day of the flight and not informing the pilot. Daughters of Erebus is the story of five people who were left behind and how the whole tragedy affected their lives. On the night of the crash, Maria Collins - wife of captain Jim Collins - was a 45-year-old mother of four girls, Kathryn, 15, Elizabeth, 13, Phillipa, 9 and Adrienne who was 6 years old. That night, their lives changed. The next day, because her Dad would have expected her to do so, Kathryn sat a School Certificate exam and passed. The girls have all been successful, all are highly educated. They are all quite different, all strong, independent individuals. They all have great senses of humour. Elizabeth says the accident made her an adult overnight. It broke forever a beautiful marriage of two people who loved each other desperately. Kathryn says they all became forever "collateral damage" of both the accident and the Chief Inspector's findings. They have never been able to end their grief. This is a New Zealand story told by one of the great New Zealand storytellers. It literally drips with pathos. It is a story which should - nay must - be read by all New Zealanders.About the author:Over a long career, Holmes has received unprecedented recognition and awards for his work across the news media. After retirement from his long-running, top-rating TV and radio shows, he now pens a hugely popular weekend column in the Weekend Herald while still hosting a weekly TV One current affairs programme. In this medium, he has also excelled, honoured with the Qantas Media Award for best columnist in 2008, after being a finalist in 2007. ...Show more

Pacific Tales by Louis Becke

$16.00 NZD

Category: Pacific | Series: Pacific Basin Books

George Lewis Becke (1848-1913) was an Australian short-story writer and novelist. He began his voyages in the south seas at a very early age and there are two accounts of these beginnings: one by the Earl of Pembroke, who presumably obtained his information from Becke, which is prefixed to By Reef and P alm (1894), and the other written by Becke. It is difficult to reconcile them, and all that is certain is that Becke spent many years on vessels trading in the Pacific islands. Becke went to London, and he remained in Europe for about 15 years, during which time a large number of collections of short stories and a few novels and stories for boys were published. He was fairly paid by the magazines for his stories, but he always sold his books outright. About 30 of Becke's books are listed in Miller's Australian Literature with six other volumes written in collaboration with W. J. Jeffery. Among Becke's books are: The Naval Pioneers of Australia (1899), and By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore and Other Stories (1901). ...Show more

The Cruise of the Snark - A Pacific Voyage by Jack London

$14.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Series: Pacific Basin Books | Reading Level: good-very good

Captain Cook - Obsession and Betrayal in the New World by Vanessa Collingridge

$20.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

Captain Cook was a man making two journeys, one public and one personal, and their success and ultimate cataclysmic failure are intertwined. By the time he "discovered" Australia, the mythology around Cook had set fast. Its strength endured the fractures of an unheroic descent and violent death. Almost 100 years later another man catches a boat to Australia. Like Cook, George Collingridge, aristocrat and artist, is seeking adventure - and like Cook, it proved to be his undoing. His journey leads him to old maps of early explorers, secret tales of hidden lands and buried treasure. It leads him to the real discoverers of Australia - the Portuguese. He stakes his reputation on the claim and loses it; his life is ruined by obsession. A hundred years later, Vanessa Collingridge is searching for books on her hero Captain Cook in a university library. She discovers the name of a distant cousin, George Collingridge, in a dusty card index. Thus a new journey of discovery begins - in the footsteps of her hero and his nemesis. The result is this biography which tells how passion and betrayal unite two men across 100 years and 10,000 miles. ...Show more