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Come Hell and High Water by Jean Hood
$59.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
The drunken captain of an unseaworthy ferry who refuses to return to port in bad weather because he would have to refund the fares; the naval captain who entrusts the navigation of his frigate to a passenger; the crew who callously ignored freezing survivors on a dismasted wreck; the passengers who seri ...Show more
Down Amongst the Black Gang: The World and Workplace of RMS Titanic's Stokers by Richard P. de Kerbrech
$39.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms and sedate tours of the deck, toiled the 'black gang'. Their work was gruelling and hot, and here deKerbrech introduces the reader to the dimly lit world and workplace of Titanic's stokers. Be ...Show more
The Voyages of Captain Cook : 101 Questions and Answers about the Explorer and his Three Great Scientific Expeditions by Anthony Cornish
$22.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
DoP September 2008 Captain James Cook is probably the most famous explorer of all time, and not without good reason. The three Pacific voyages of discovery he made between 1768 and 1779 set new standards in navigation, surveying and shipboard health; he discovered and charted numerous lands; and due to ...Show more
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities by Terry Breverton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea. However, unlike many other nautical compendiums, the focus of this book is on the unusual, the overlooked or the downright extraordinary. Thus, someone most of us do not know, Admiral William Brown, is given equal coverage to Admiral N ...Show more
We Built Titanic by Anton Gill
$60.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
When Titanic set sail in 1912, she was the largest and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. She was built by the world's most skilled and productive workforce, the great industrial communities that made Britain the global superpower of the age. To commemorate this extraordi ...Show more
Yacht Were You Thinking?: An A-Z of Boat Names Good and Bad by Jonathan Eyers
$21.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
Naming a boat is as personal as naming a baby (even if few male skippers would risk telling the wife that). The culmination of many years of dreaming and penny pinching, the purchase of a boat of any size is a huge event for any sailor, and with that comes serious naming pressure. Many boatowners have a ...Show more
Great Ships by Peter C. Smith
$49.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
This work offers an authoritative study of the battleship in World War II. It features stirring episodes of naval combat. It covers the famous chase after the Bismarck, the sinking of the Scharnhorst, the coastal bombardments on D-Day, and other actions. Although naval development before World War II fo ...Show more
Build Your Own Titanic by Benedikt Taschen
$29.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
One fateful night, a century ago...This is a 100th anniversary scale model of the Titanic to build yourself. Calling all Titanic buffs, hobbyists, and ship lovers: you're invited to build a cardboard model of the formidable and notorious vessel! Vast sums of money have been spent and enormous efforts ha ...Show more
P&O: Across the Oceans, Across the Years by Ruth Artmonsky
$119.99 NZD
Category: Nautical
A nostalgic glance astern at the glory days of Peninsular & Oriental (P&O) both at sea and on shore. Drawing on personal recollections in the archives of P&O Heritage, Ruth Artmonsky looks back at the company during the age of empire and a bygone time when travelling P&O captured the ima ...Show more