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Shipwrecked - New Zealand Maritime Disasters by Gavin McLean
$60.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
Shipwrecks litter the coasts and reefs of New Zealand. Disasters at sea are no longer the regular occurrence they were in the days when sea travel was the main means of coastal and international transport, yet recent wrecks like the Rena show that perils remain. Shipwrecked retells the voyages of ships ...Show more
With the Wind Behind Us by Matt Elliott
$37.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
From red socks to kauri yachts, these are the stories that made New Zealand Aotearoa a sailing nation. Stretching back to the Pacific navigators and the great migrations from Polynesia to the humble 'P' class dinghy and the world-beating success of Team New Zealand: With the Wind Behind Us is a celebra ...Show more
Driven by the Wind - The Memoir of Captain Henry Rose by Karen Stade
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
...Christmas Day 1847 we were in a gale of a wind in the Bay of Biscay, the ship being deeply laden made rather bad weather of it. One of the boats was struck by a heavy sea and smashed and the First Mate had his leg broken. The Cook... told me that I would never see my mother again... So began the adve ...Show more
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans- too big to police, and under no clear i ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (PB) by Michael Palin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
____________________________________ BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER____________________________________ HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. I ...Show more
Ship Of War by Sean Thomas Russell
$39.99 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
1794 - the height of the French Revolution - and the Reign of Terror continues to ravage France. With no clear champion in the war, the British are desperate for a victory to restore confidence in their campaign. Captain Charles Hayden has orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to ...Show more
Last Man off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas by Matt Lewis
$37.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
In the depths of winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a fishing boat fights for its life in swells as high as houses. For Matt Lewis, a 23-year-old British marine biologist, it had been his dream first job. Working on the Antarctic seas alongside a toughened South African crew, he is mesmerise ...Show more
Into the Raging Sea - Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm and the Sinking of el Faro by Rachel Slade
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of globalisation that put the ship in harm's way. On October 1, 201 ...Show more
South Sea Vagabonds by Johnny Wray
$45.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
The true story of Johnny Wray's adventures after being fired from his day job in the Great Depression, building his own boat and spending the rest of his days sailing around the Pacific, living the life of his dreams, has become a classic and an inspiration to generations of readers, sailors and landlub ...Show more
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana, Jr
$24.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
A Breathtaking adventure of the high seas - and a true story In 1834, Richard Henry Dana went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and sea - and still rings true as a portraya ...Show more
Eight Bells and Top Masts by Christopher Lee
$27.95 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
The time is the late 1950s. It is the end of an era. The end of the trade in which an old converted coal-burning ship with a Chinese crew and a handful of British officers would tramp from port to port, picking up cargo where it could, never knowing where it, and they, would be heading next. Christopher ...Show more
The Hal Roth Seafaring Trilogy by Hal Roth
$55.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
Three big adventures on the high seas ? from one of the greatest seafaring writers of our age! Hal Roth?s vivid, authentic tales of the sea have riveted readers around the world for forty years. Here, in one volume, are three of his classic sea stories, each one a white-knuckled, rail-down voyage in ...Show more