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
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
James Cook - The story behind the man who mapped the world by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: very good
HE STORY BEHIND THE MAN WHO MAPPED THE WORLD The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost ma ...Show more
Dampier's Monkey - The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier by Adrian Mitchell
$49.95 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
William Dampier, the 'devil's mariner' as he has been called, a far voyager and traveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was new - a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new scienc ...Show more
Inside the Titanic by Ken Marschall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: 9-12
Frank Goldsmith can hardly believe his luck. He is going to America on board the newest and largest ocean liner in the world. Once he and his family have found their small room in third class, Frank goes off to explore the Titanic. Several decks above the Goldsmiths, 12-year-old Billy Carter is sharing ...Show more
Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth by Ed Wright
$45.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
Features approximately 80 adventurers who gave their lives in the cause of discovery. This book discusses the adventurers chronologically, and the various entries cover their careers up-to and including their final mission. It features maps, portraits, photos and quotations from diaries and letters.
Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage in the Extreme South by David Crane
$35.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: very good
This is the definitive biography of Captain Scott - the pivotal figure in pre-First World War Antarctic exploration. Crane's beautifully written and illustrated book re-examines the courage and tragedy of Scott's expedition and reasserts his position in the pantheon of British heroes. David Crane's rema ...Show more
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: good
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of water, and - in matters economic, political and military - the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It ...Show more
James Cook: Master Mariner Navigator and Cartographer, the Man Behind the Myth by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable names in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, an ...Show more
H.M. Bark Endeavour Updated Edition by Ray Parkin
$100.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
Here, in one accessible volume, is Ray Parkin's highly acclaimed and multi-award winning study of Captain James Cook's Endeavour. This incomparable book is a unique account of a great journey-Endeavour's voyage up the east coast of Australia in 1770-and a remarkable re-creation of the experience of bein ...Show more
The Great Explorers - The Brave Adventurers Who Risked Their Lives to Understand How Our Planet Works by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Throughout history, a handful of unusually driven individuals have been inspired to explore the limits of the known world, inspiring us and changing our perceptions of our planet through their courageous adventures. What is it that makes these men and women risk their lives in desperate, often fatal eff ...Show more
Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
____________________________________BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK____________________________________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 i ...Show more