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  • Alone – The Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race – Daniel Gilles.

    Alone – The Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race – Daniel Gilles.

    Published by Angus and Robertson 1977 a first edition. Octavo, 214 pages, nicely illustrated with charts and images from photographs. Very good condition.

    By the tine this book had been published this formidable race had been held five times – not without the loss of life. Then regarded as the toughest of all nautical challenges and we would say this book goes “a way” to prove that claim. Superb writing and good back up images.

    Alone across the Atlantic the hard way

    $30.00

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  • Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas [One of the Anson’s Voyage Cornerstone Books} – Pascoe Thomas

    Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas [One of the Anson’s Voyage Cornerstone Books} – Pascoe Thomas

    This is a great example of the Israel Facsimile Voyages published in Amsterdam in 1971. The original account from which this faithful copy was made was published by Birt, Newbery et al London in 1745.

    Octavo, Following a Preface and a very lengthy list of subscribers, 347 pages plus various very useful appendices. Fine condition.

    Pascoe Thomas described himself a “teacher of the Mathematicks on board the Centurion”.

    The Title Page contain a nice precis of the volume … “A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas, and Round the Globe, in His Majesty’s Ship the Centurion, Under the Command of Commodore George Anson. WHERINH … All the material Incidents during the said Voyage, from its Commencement in 1770 to the Conclusion in 1744, are fully and faithfully related, having been committed to Paper at the Time they happen’d. Together with some historical Accounts of Chili, Peru, Mexico, and the Empire of China; exact Descriptions of such Places of Note as were touch’d at; and Variety of occasional Remarks. To which is added … A large and general Table of Longitudes and Latitudes, ascertain’d from accurate Observations, or (where these are wanting) from the best printed Books and Manuscripts taken from the Spaniards in this Expedition: Also the Variations of the Compass throughout the Voyage, and the Soundings and depths of water along the different Coasts: And lastly, several curious Observations on a Comet seen in the South-Seas on the Coast of Mexico.

    So there we have it … except we also have an appendix which tabulates the massive amounts of gold Anson accumulated from his exploits. This is the only account of the voyage to contain that detail.

    Pascoe Thomas .. completes the Anson story

    $80.00

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  • An Imperial Disaster  – The Wreck of George the Third (off Bruny Island) – Michael Roe

    An Imperial Disaster – The Wreck of George the Third (off Bruny Island) – Michael Roe

    Published in Hobart by Blubber Press in 2006. Large octavo, 293 pages, well illustrated and in very good near fine condition.

    This limited edition (750) book by Michael Roe is packed with research.

    On 12 April 1835 the George the Third hit a rock entering the D’Entrecasteaux Channel with the loss of 133 lives all but six convicts. Essential Tasmanian reading.

    More than a shipwreck book

    $50.00

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  • Australian Shipwrecks – Volume 4 – (1901-1987) – Jack Loney (Signed by the Author)

    Australian Shipwrecks – Volume 4 – (1901-1987) – Jack Loney (Signed by the Author)

    Volume 4 of this cornerstone Australian wreck series. Loney’s update and extension to the period 1901- 1986 and the standard is maintained.

    Small quarto, 284 pages, heavily illustrated from period photographs.

    Published in 1987 and signed by the author on the Title Page. A bit foxed on the page edges, other than that it is a bright copy in a complete and unmarked dust jacket.

    Essential Australian Shipwreck

    $50.00

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  • Australia’s Shipwreck Coast (and Other Stories) – Jack Loney

    Australia’s Shipwreck Coast (and Other Stories) – Jack Loney

    Square octavo,soft cover 103 pages including the index. Some signs of use but still in very good condition.

    Jack Loney published this soft cover in 1986 focusing on the many wrecks along the coast of Victoria. As always with his work well researched and magnificently illustrated.

    Victorian Coast littered with wrecks.

    $20.00

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  • Kangaroo Island Shipwrecks – Gifford Chapman

    Kangaroo Island Shipwrecks – Gifford Chapman

    An excellent Roebuck production (No 6) published in 1973 a second printing updated with the story of the Amber Star. Very good near fine condition.

    Large octavo, 109 pages with soft covers. Heavily illustrated with great end paper maps of the Island with the positions of the many wrecks. Good photographic images and well researched

    Kangaroo Island more than its fair share

    $35.00

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