The Endurance by Caroline Alexander
$35.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
In August 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. Their goal was to be the first men to cross Antarctica. Caroline Alexander tells the story of Shackleton's expedition accompanied by the photographs of Australian Frank Hurley.
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
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. In 2014, it was found. This is its story. 'Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson Michael Palin - Monty Python ...Show more
The Last Navigator: From the Queensland Bush to Bomber Command and Pathfinders... a True Story of Courage and Survival Against the Odds by Paul Goodwin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
An extraordinary first-person story of a boy from the Queensland bush who survived the dangers of Bomber Command to become Qantas' last navigator.
Through Ice & Fire by Sarah Laverick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
The wild and desolate expanses of Antarctica have been the setting for many famous exploits and misadventures: a place where every decision has life-or-death consequences. The legendary tales of tragedy and triumph experienced by explorers such as Shackleton, Mawson and Scott continue to inspire to thi ...Show more
Carpathia by Jay Ludowyke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
In the early hours of 15 April 1912, the Cunard steamship Carpathia receives a distress call from the new White Star liner Titanic. Captain Arthur Rostron immediately turns Carpathia northwest and sails full speed through the dark night, into waters laden with icebergs, on a rescue mission that will bec ...Show more
Expeditions Unpacked by Ed Stafford
$55.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
"A fascinating and unique look at these celebrated expeditions. Ed Stafford knows all too well how important an explorer's kit can be and this brilliant book gives great insight into the role it plays." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes In this unique and enthralling book, explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford curat ...Show more
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
$35.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: good-very good
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 in ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants - mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better lif ...Show more
Oceania by Peter Brunt, Noelle Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Sean Mallon, Michael Mel, Anne Salmond, & Nicholas Thomas
$110.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
250 years after Cook's voyage to the South Pacific, the dazzling and diverse art of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary. From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on th ...Show more
Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth.Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they d ...Show more
Seamanship in the Age of Sail by John Harland
$120.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
320 pages Illustrated by Mark Myers. "The most comprehensive historical work on the sailing ship ever published...any sailor worth his salt must have it on his shelf ashore." - The Daily Telegraph. Based on contemporary sources, this work describes for the first time the full historical development o ...Show more
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary by Darwin, Charles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
On 27th December 1831, HMS Beagle set out from Plymouth under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy on a voyage that lasted nearly 5 years. The purpose of the trip was to complete a survey of the southern coasts of South America, and afterwards to circumnavigate the globe. The ship's geologist and natur ...Show more