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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 - Stories that made New Zealand a sailing nation by Matt Elliott
$37.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales | Reading Level: near fine
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 celebrat ...Show more
Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea by The RNLI
$38.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
'There's water in the engine,' he said. 'The engine has stopped.' This changed everything... Surviving the Storms brings together incredible first-hand accounts of rescues carried out by the remarkable RNLI lifesavers. In this collection of heart-wrenching and life-affirming missions, we hear blow-by ...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
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
With Reckless Abandon by Jim Sharp, (Ca Cap Cap Cap Cap Cap
$59.99 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
Memoirs of a Boat-Obsessed Life Imbued with a sea captainâÂÂs outlook on life and the optimistic attitudes found in overcoming obstacles â from battling childhood polio to preparing and maintaining a 100-year-old wooden schooner â this autobiography regales the life of a leading windjam ...Show more
Canvas Flying, Seagulls Crying: From Scottish Lochs to Celtic Shores by Justin Tyers
$28.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
After Justin and Linda Tyers lost everything in a devastating house fire, they rebuilt their lives by building a classic wooden yacht from scratch - starting by felling the trees. This story was told in their first book, Phoenix from the Ashes. This sequel follows their voyage from the Scottish Islands ...Show more
Into the Raging Sea - Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade
$36.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
ONE OF JANET MASLIN'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER "A powerful and affecting story, beautifully handled by Slade, a journalist who clearly knows ships and the sea."--Douglas Preston, New York Times Book Review "A Pe ...Show more
The Cape Horners' Club by Adrian Flanagan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales | Reading Level: General Adult
Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has extracted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water a ...Show more
HMS Beagle:The Story of Darwin's Ship by Keith S. Thomson
$29.95 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas 'After having twice been driven back by heavy south west gales, Her Majesty's Ship Beagle, a ten gun brig under the command of Captain Fitzroy, sailed from Devonport on the 27th December, 1813.' With these words, Charles Darwin began his acc ...Show more
Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans by Chester G. Hearn
$59.95 NZD
Category: Nautical - Tales
In 1840, Matthew Fontaine Maury became the first superintendent of the US Naval Observatory, where he began his life's work mapping the great ocean routes and providing sailing directions for navigators the world over. This book uses his career as a window on 19th-century maritime history.