An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J. Larson
$36.95 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: very good
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
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.
The Journals of Captain Cook by Captain James Cook
$27.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals am ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
$39.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging across time and the whole extraordina ...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
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: very good
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plan ...Show more
The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
$52.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure was never before pub ...Show more
the Survivors' Story Titanic: 9 Hours to Hell by Bartlett Wb
$49.95 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
A major new history of the disaster that weaves into the narrative the first-hand accounts of those who survived. It was twenty minutes to midnight on Sunday 14 April, when Jack Thayer felt the Titanic lurch to port, a motion followed by the slightest of shocks. Seven-year old Eva Hart barely noticed an ...Show more
Trim, the Cartographer's Cat: The Ship's Cat Who Helped Flinders Map Australia by Matthew Flinders; Gillian Dooley; Philippa Sandall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
A fun and quirky gift book about a much-loved ship's cat: Trim, who helped Flinders map and lap Australia. Trim was the ship's cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803. Trim, The Cartographer's Cat is a charming ode to t ...Show more
Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications During the Great Disaster by Michael Hughes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
Published to mark the centenary of the sinking, this book tells the story of the Titanic from a new angle: the role of wireless in the disaster. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, the book recounts the fateful events of April 1 ...Show more