The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
$40.00 NZD
Category: Maritime
On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship, finally succumbed to the immense pressures of the surrounding ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, just like that, it was gone. Over a century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatc ...Show more
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan
$38.00 NZD
Category: Maritime
'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' - Brian Eno 'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' - John Higgs 'A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music' - Cosey Fanni Tutti What do ...Show more
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
$85.00 NZD
Category: History
David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretc ...Show more
Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world by Peter Moore
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science The Enlightenment was an age of endeavours. Britain was consumed by the impulse for grand p ...Show more
Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
$33.00 NZD
Category: History
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ...Show more
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the way from the Caribbean west across the Pacifi ...Show more
Sentinels of the Sea : A Miscellany of Lighthouses Past by R. G. Grant
$45.00 NZD
Category: Lighthouses
Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity's battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves, Sentinels of the Sea describes the engineering genius that allowed their construction on even the smal ...Show more
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