The Guide to Wooden Boats: Schooners, Ketches, Cutters, Sloops, Yawls, Cats by Benjamin Mendlowitz
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
This classic pictorial tour of wooden boats showcases a rich collection of images by Benjamin Mendlowitz, the pre-eminent photographer of wooden boats, with text by the renowned marine historian Maynard Bray - a true feast for the eyes as well as the imagination. Now available for the first time in pape ...Show more
The Saltwater Highways - The Story of Ports and Shipping in New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
$44.99 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: new
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
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
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
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
Death of a Cruise Ship by Tom O'Connor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
Tom O'Connor's study of the loss of this massive cruise liner in 1986 in constricted waters in Queen Charlotte Sound, (at the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island), examines all; the events leading up to the ship's grounding, its eventual loss, the rush to evacuate the more then 400 passengers and ...Show more
Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History by Ian Graham
$34.99 NZD
Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good
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
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
Can Squid Fly?: Answers to a Host of Fascinating Questions About the Sea and Sea Life: (follow-up) by Tony Rice
$28.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
Using the same question and answer format of his highly successful first book Do Whales Get the Bends?, marine expert Tony Rice sets out to answer another selection of general interest questions about the sea, sea life and man's relationship with the oceans. Questions tackled in this book include: * ...Show more
Cast Away: Shipwrecked, Marooned or Cast Adrift on the High Seas by Joseph Cummins
$49.99 NZD
$55.00 (9% off)
Category: Nautical
"Cast Away" recounts the epic tales of the survivors of shipwreck, mutiny and marooning through the ages and around the globe, focusing on the age of sail and steam. It captures some of the most magical, romantic, gruesome, exciting and bizarre stories of the sea, presenting for the reader's delectation ...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
The White Star Collection: A Shipping Line in Postcards by Patrick Mylon
$69.99 NZD
$79.99 (12% off)
Category: Nautical
A sumptuous and delightful collection of postcards tracing the story of the illustrious White Star Line The White Star Line was originally founded in Liverpool in 1845 to provide passage to Australia before Thomas Ismay purchased and transformed the identity and goodwill of the line into the successful ...Show more