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CONWAYS: THE SHIPS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: Anatomy of the Ship
Product Code: 9824

1992 marked the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus.The details of Columbus’s ships - the Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta - remain lost to historians, for the ships were built before the first manuals of shipbuiding were written, and no documentatin or ...

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CONWAYS: MINIATURE MERCHANT SHIPS
Product Code: 9791

Written by the editor of Model Shipwrigt, this volume is separated into two sections. In the first, the author discusses research, where to obtain data and plans, tools and materials, and describes in detail the construction of 1/1200 models, each accompanied by photographs of the ship and modell...

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Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the atlantic to the pacific; performed in the years 1819–20, in his majesty’s ships hecla and griper
Product Code: 9786

This was the first of three expeditions by Parry for the purpose of discovering a route from Greenland to the Bering Strait - the so called 'Northwest Passage' and he achieved a good part of this on the voyage in 1819-20. Travelling in the ships HMS Hecla and HMS Griper, Parry was able to map lar...

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last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in h.m.s. assistance, under thE command of sir edward belcher, c.b., in search of Sir John Franklin during the years 1852–53–54, with notes on the natural history
Product Code: 9766

A description of some of the several expeditions launched to find the ill-fated Franklin expedition to discover the North-West Passage. Although its results were inconclusive, the Belcher voyages are an intriguing account of the search.

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Mutiny in the “Bounty! And the story of the Pitcairn islanders
Product Code: 9784

Written in 1884, this book is an interpretation of the famous events so often depicted in print and film. The author, Alfred McFarland, was an Irishman whose calling in the legal profession eventually led to him the position of Judge in Australia. McFarland has drawn upon the many versions of eve...

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voyage of the Jeannette. The ship and ice journals of george w. de long, lieutenant-commander u.s.n., and commander of the polar expedition of 1879–1881
Product Code: 9771

The USS Jeannette left San Francisco in July of 1879 bound on a voyage of exploration to find a route to the North Pole via the Bering Strait. George W De Long had previously shown himself to be the stuff that exploration commanders were made of when, in 1873, he led a small party in the Little J...

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voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas. a narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions
Product Code: 9783

How the fate of Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to find the North West Passage was discovered - by Captain M’LIntock, the explorer commissioned by Lady Franklin to trace her husband and his companions. A classic of Arctic exploration.

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Yachting in the Arctic seas or notes of five voyages of sport and discovery in the neighbourhood of spitzbergen and novaya zemlya
Product Code: 9780

Intriguing and delightful 1875 account of sailing the icy waters of the Arctic by wealthy Scots MP turned amateur yachtsman James Lamont. WIll interest all devotees of yachting and polar exploration.

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HOOD BATTALION
Product Code: 9703

The Hood Battalion saw some of the fiercest fighting of the First World War particularly at Antwerp, in the Gallipoli Campaign and then again on the West Front at the Ancre, Gavrelle and Passchendaele.The author lets the participants tell their own story, having expended prodigious labour in unea...

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ONE-MAN PNEUMATIC LIFE RAFT SURVIVAL KITS OF WORLD WAR II
Product Code: 9688

The one-Man Pneumtaic Life Raft - was the unheralded and almost unknown savior of uncounted downed airmen of World War II and the early Korean War.This is the story of its history, development, and usage as little raft survival kits.Coverage includes issued raft kits of U.S. Army Air Forces, U.S....

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