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True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took On the World
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Jessica Watson
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Inspired by those who have gone before her - and especially Kay Cottee and Jesse Martin - this is a quest and a story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of all who admire an adventurous spirit. TRUE SPIRIT covers everything that readers want to know: the planning, the itinerary, what she did to prepare and how her parents came to terms with her decision; what she thought about as she sailed, what she read, what she ate and how she lived in that tiny ten-metre boat; how she managed not seeing anyone for months at a time, the elements and the inevitable technical problems; how Jessica actually felt as she tackled perilous waters alone and how the experience changed her life. This is the book that will answer many of the questions raised by the followers of Jessica's blog as well as those who have seen her on television, heard her on the radio, or read about her amazing adventures in the papers and magazines.
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The Titanic Story
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Author:
David F. Hutchings
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When the White Star Line's 'unsinkable' transatlantic liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 15 April 1912, she sank with the loss of 1,503 lives; 705 survived the disaster.
From that fateful day when the pride of the British merchant marine plumbed the icy depths of the North Atlantic, Titanic has become the most celebrated of maritime disasters and has spawned hundreds of books and two major films.
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In the Heart of the Sea: The epic true story that inspired Moby Dick
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Nathaniel Philbrick
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The sinking of the Nantucket whaleship "Essex" by an enraged spermwhale far out in the Pacific in November 1820 set in train one of the most dramatic sea stories of all time. Accounts of the unprecedented whale attack inspired Herman Melville's mighty novel
Moby Dick
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In the Heart of the Sea
goes beyond these events to describe what happened when the twenty mixed-race crewmen took to three small boats and what, three months later, the whaleship Dauphin, cruising of the coast of South America, discovered when it spotted a tiny boat sailing erratically across the open ocean.
Nathaniel Philbrick is a historian and broadcaster who has writen extensively about sailing. He is Director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies on Nantucket Island, and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. He was a consultant on the movie
Moby Dick
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Migrant Ships to Australia and New Zealand 1900 to 1939
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Author:
Peter Plowman
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This book examines those ships and shipping companies that transported migrants to Australia and New Zealand from 1900 to 1939, the outbreak of World War II: where they were built, by whom, their tonnage, dimensions, service speed and propulsion, when and where they were launched and the history of their migrant-carrying voyages. 192 pages in 286 x 210 mm format, with 188 b&w photos.
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Sunk Without Trace: 30 dramatic accounts of yachts lost at sea
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Author:
Paul Gelder
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By the same author as the bestselling Total Loss, this is a new collection of terrifying and compelling accounts of yachts lost at sea. The seven deadly causes of loss continue to take their toll, and Paul Gelder has compiled first-hand accounts of shipwreck and sinking caused by Collision, Gear Failure, Stress of Weather, Faulty Navigation, Fire, Crew Failure and Exhaustion. The moving, emotionally charged descriptions of shipwrecked sailors abandoning their yachts at sea will have you on the edge of your seat. But these accounts are more than just gripping tales of disaster - they carry valuable lessons which the survivors have been able to pass on to all who go to sea for pleasure. Praise for Total Loss: 'The tales provide gripping if sometimes unsettling reading and many valuable lessons.' - Cruising World 'Sure, you can learn from your own mistakes, but wouldn't you rather learn from theirs?' - Sailing
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The Delivery of the Ocean's Reward
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Author:
Gray Eatwell
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DoP - 2007, Auckland
148x210mm / 95pp
This is a true story of how an odd mixture of seven men, of whom only two had ever met before joined forces in airports around the globe and moulded together to form the crew to steam a 27 meter fishing trawler from Skagen in Denmark to the other side of the world, Nelson, New Zealand.
Based on the rigors of daily events this story is a combination of light hearted and serious views of the trials and tribulations of the different personalities exposed within and around the group, throughout 83 long days living in each other's pockets. And the other events that effected them. It was cold for a time, it was stinking hot too, but they depended on each other to safely navigate the two major oceans on earth, the Atlantic and the Pacific. They crossed the North and Caribbean seas. Covering 12,300 nautical miles (at a bit over 9 knots), they passed through the busy English Channel and the Panama ...
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The Perfect Storm
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Author:
Sebastian Junger
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The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace.
This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. It is the story of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man and Nature, but here Nature is an awesome and capricious power that transforms the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil tanker in two, let alone the 72ft swordfishing boat Andrea Gail with her crew of eight. A typical Hurricane encompasses a million cubic miles of atmosphere and can contain enough energy to, in theory, ...
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Ancient Boats and Ships
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Author:
Sean McGrail
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After an introduction to the topic of maritime archaeology and account of the way maritime archaeologists work, the author describes the building and use of rafts, boats and ships in north-west Europe up to about 1500. The evidence for early sea voyages and for navigation without instruments is surveyed, and there follows a summary of present knowledge about early water transport in the Mediterranean, Arabia, India, south-east Asia, China, Australia the south Pacific and the Americas. There is a glossary of technical terms.
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Hell on High Seas : Amazing stories of survival against the odds
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Rob Mundle
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HELL ON HIGH SEAS chronicles some of the most remarkable stories of survival and daring that the world's oceans have hosted over the past half century. Bizarre, unbelievable accounts of people who went missing and were given up for dead, only to miraculously reappear months later. Amazing feats of daring on the high seas - some verging on madness, others where death is eluded through sheer courage, determination and innovation ...or even divine intervention? Five Mexican fishermen went to sea for a three-day shark-fishing trip and vanished - nine months later three of them reappeared; Maurice and Maralyn Bailey spent 117 days adrift in a rubber dinghy in the Pacific after their yacht was capsized by a whale; and Steve Callahan survived for 76 days in a rubber raft after his tiny 6.5-metre long yacht sank while he was racing single-handed across the Atlantic. 276 pages.
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Island of the Lost
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Author:
Joan Druett
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A harrowing true story of shipwreck, death and survival on a Godforsaken island at the edge of the world.
In January of 1864, five sailors from the wrecked schooner Graftonare stranded on remote and icy Auckland Island, some three hundred miles from New Zealand. An isolated speck in the Southern ocean, it is a godforsaken place, with winds howling at sixty miles an hour, rain three hundred days a year, and an almost impenetrable coastal forest. Under the leadership of Captain Thomas Musgrave, these men defy their slim chance of survival. They build a cabin and, incredibly, a forge, where they manufacture every single nail as well as most of their tools. Miraculously, all the Graftonmen survive for nearly two years before finally building a getaway vessel and setting off on one of the most courageous sea voyages ever. Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the same island - twenty miles of impassable cliffs and chasms away - ...
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