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Standard of Power - The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century by Dan Van Der Vat
$16.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial and compelling survey of the Royal Navy in the twentieth century by a widely praised modern historian. Dan van der Vat, author of authoritative bestselling books on the Titanic and the history of the submarine, has now produced an enthralling and thoroughly researched history of the Royal ...Show more
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$8.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: good
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
Voyages of Discovery - Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Lynne Withey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Captain Cook's War and Peace - The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768 by John Robson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
Why was James Cook chosen to lead the Endeavour expedition to the Pacific in 1768? As this new book shows, by that date he had become supremely and uniquely qualified for the exacting tasks of exploration. This was a period when who you were and who you knew counted for more than ability, but Cook, thro ...Show more
Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada - The Adventurer and Map Maker's Formative Years by Jerry Lockett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
The skills, knowledge and experience that took Captain James Cook to the South Seas and around the world seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, as author Jerry Lockett has discovered, their foundation was laid during the time he spent in Atlantic Canada. His experiences on Canada's east coast and the n ...Show more
The Life of Captain James Cook by J C Beaglehole
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The Last Voyage of Captain Cook - The collected writings of John Ledyard by John Ledyard; James Zug (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
John Ledyard, the man who dreamed of crossing the United States on foot 20 years before Lewis and Clark, who salled with Captain Cook, formed a fur-trading company with John Paul Jones, and explored Russian Siberia at a time when it was a vast blank marked "unknown" on the map is perhaps the greatest an ...Show more
Maritime Power - Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1851 by Peter Padfield
$12.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: good-very good
In the history of warfare at sea, no era can match the glory of the Nelson era, during which Britain gained supremacy over her rival, Napoleonic France, in the Battle of Trafalgar of 1805, and after which she was to find a new rival, the young United States, in the War of 1812. With keen insight into th ...Show more
Captain Cook, RN - The Resolute Mariner - An International record of Ocean Discovery by Thomas Vaughan; C. M. Murray-Oliver
$15.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins by Kenneth R. Andrews (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 142 | Reading Level: good-very good
This is an account of the expedition of royal and private ships which left Plymouth in 1595 under the command of Drake and Hawkins with the aim of capturing the city of Panama. The expedition ended in total failure, both leaders died and attempt to capture Grand Canary, Puerto Rico and Panama were all r ...Show more
Journal kept in New Zealand in 1820 by Ensign Alexander McCrae of the 84th Regiment together with relevant documents by Alexander McCrae; Johannes Andersen (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Alexander Turnbull Library Bulletin No 3 | Reading Level: very good
The Royal Marines Barracks and Eastney - A Pictorial History by Andrew Lane
$15.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good