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Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail: Races and Rivalries on the Nineteenth Century High Seas by Sam Jefferson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
In the era of commercial sail, clipper ships were the ultimate expression of speed and grace. Racing out to the gold fields of America and Australia, and breaking speed records carrying tea back from China, the ships combined beauty with breathtaking performance. With over 200 gorgeous paintings and ill ...Show more
Mutiny on the Spanish Main - HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge by Angus Konstam
$42.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
From renowned author and naval historian Angus Konstam, this is a gripping account of one of the Royal Navy's bloodiest and most dramatic mutinies.Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval ...Show more
Empire of the Deep
$60.00 NZD
Category: Military History
The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Few other nations have fallen so ...Show more
P & O by Ruth Artmonsky
$22.99 NZD
Category: Nautical | Series: Shire Library 701
From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Initially the company's paddle steamers carried Her Majesty's Mail, as the name impliese, to the Iberian Peninsula, ...Show more
Saltwater Highways: The Story of Ports and Shipping in New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
$44.99 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand, a country ‘rinsed by the sea’, has a shipping story to tell as long and convoluted as its coastline. Thoroughly researched, with an eye for a good yarn but also with an acute sense of the shifting social and political changes over the years, McLauchlan tells an informative and engaging tale ...Show more
Cutty Sark - The Last of the Tea Clippers (150th Anniversary Edition) by Eric Kentley
$42.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
An updated and expanded edition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of this iconic ship. The narrative spans her construction at Dumbarton in 1869; her famous tea voyages as well as those with other cargoes; her career under a Portuguese flag; her subsequent return to the Thames, Greenwich; and the drama ...Show more
The Guide to Wooden Boats: Schooners, Ketches, Cutters, Sloops, Yawls, Cats by Benjamin Mendlowitz
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
Hunter Killers by Iain Ballantyne
$49.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
Official Royal Navy definition: HUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes. HUNTER KILLERS will follow the careers of four daring British submarine captains who risked their lives to keep the rest of us safe, their exploits consigned to th ...Show more
Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History by Ian Graham
$34.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
From the Stone Age to the present day, no technology has had a more profound impact on mankind than watercraft. Boats and ships made possible the settlement and conquest of new worlds. They determined the victors of history-changing wars and aided the spread of new philosophies, technologies, and religi ...Show more
British Admirals of the Fleet 1734-1995 by T. A. Heathcote
$44.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
A companion volume to the same author's "The British Field Marshals 1736-1997", this book outlines the lives of the 115 officers who held the rank of Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy from 1734, when it took its modern form, to 1995, when the last one was appointed. Each entry gives details of the ...Show more
Wanganella and the Australian Trans-Tasman Liners by Peter Plowman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
THIS BOOK tells the story of the trans-Tasman shipping service from the days of the earliest steam ship service to the liner Wanganella's last voyage to New Zealand in 1963. The only Australian company to maintain a service across the Tasman Sea was Huddart Parker, who survived numerous attempts by the ...Show more