The Race to the New World : Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery by Douglas Hunter
$41.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
The final decade of the 15th century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a fellow Italian explorer f ...Show more
The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
It has always been mankind's gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them--and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world's greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first t ...Show more
Hm Bark Endeavour (Special Edition) by Ray Parkin
$200.00 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
A Short History of Seafaring by DK
$19.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
A fascinating journey through more than 5,000 years of seafaring history in this essential guide to the most impressive seafaring tales, explorers, and maritime environments. For more than 5,000 years, the seas have challenged, rewarded, and punished the brave sailors who set forth to explore it. This h ...Show more
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Ernest Henry Shackleton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure--and peril. South is the remarkable tale of the ill-fated expedition, told in Shackleton's own words--breathtakingly il ...Show more
Shackleton's Heroes by Wilson McOrist; Ranulph Fiennes (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
The Voyages of Captain James Cook: The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages by James Cook, John Hawkesworth
$49.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
The first-ever illustrated account of Captain James Cook's epic eighteenth-century voyages, complete with excerpts from his vivid journals. This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders w ...Show more
The Sea Journal: Seafarers' Sketchbooks by Huw Lewis-Jones
$59.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils. ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration | Reading Level: very good
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...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
$34.99 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.
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.
Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger by Diana Hill
$45.00 AUD
Category: Marine Exploration
Discover the inspiration for the famed redesign of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. It was the young William Guilfoyle's botanical tour of the South Sea Islands in 1868 that provided his vision for the one of the world's great public parks.Share his excitement of discovering and collecting tropical ...Show more