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CRUISING IN STYLE.By TeNaues. Hardback, 258mm x 325mm, 218 pages, full colour photographs.
This attractive volume highlights the attractions and amenities enjoyed by lucky passengers aboard the MSC Cruises' fleet. As you browse these spellbinding images, you can almost feel the briny breezes. Combining maritime traditions and unsurpassed Mediterranean cuisine to deliver the ultimate cruise experience, MSC Cruises blends Italian warmth and style for a truly international sophistication. With a line of luxuriously appointed ships and stimulating ports of call, MSC Cruises truly offers a journey of a lifetime.
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CLASSIC SHIPS.By Richard Havers. Hardback, 200mm x 139mm, 128 pages, black and white and full colour photographs.
Thousands of years before any of our modern methods of transport were invented man travelled by boat on the water. Later on men travelling by ship proved that the world was round, discovering new lands and new continents. By the 20th century vast numbers of people used ships to emigrate to new lives in far away lands; ships soon became floating palaces, representing the ultimate in sophistication. This book is a chronicle of our nautical heritage for the last 100 or so years and features everything from tall ships to small ships, working boats and lifeboats. in particular it's a salute to the liners that sailed the world's oceans carrying people to distant shores - port out, starboard home.
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IF MATTHEW FLINDERS HAD WINGS.By Richard Buxton. Hardback, 285mm x 308mm, 275 pages, full colour photographs.
In a journey that took seven years to complete, construction and property developer Richard Buxton followed in Matthew Flinders' path, circumnavigating Australia by air and sea to raise public awareness and funds for research into Alzheimer's disease.
This magnificent book charts these two journeys, beginning and ending in Melbourne, and taking in every state and territory in between. As Buxton travels the 19,822 nautical miles around Australia, he encounters treacherous weather and the isolation of the open seas. Yet he also experiences unexpected wonders: the warmth of people in remote communities in the Northern Territory, the lost paradise of the tropical islands in Far North Queensland, the thrill of sailing alongside pods of humpback whales.
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this book charts a modern-day adventure completed more than 200 years after Matthew Flinders' original journey. As well as providing unique insights and stunning images of some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the Australian coastline, it is a tale of daring and wonder on the high seas.
Proceeds from book sales will support medical research into mental health.
NZ$70.00 + Delivery
THE LIGHTHOUSE ENCYCLOPEDIA.By Ray Jones. Paperback, 215mm x 280mm, 274 pages, full colour photographs.
Lighthouses! For more than two thousand years, these maritime beacons have marked the earth's most dangerous shores, guiding ships to safety and offering hope to sailors lost at sea. Packed with information, drama, and stunning color photographs, this award-winning volume, updated and now available in paperback, is your one-stop resource for all things lighthouse-realted. Look inside for:
Lighthouses through history
An in-depth look at the history of light towers, from those of the Pharaohs in ancient Egypt to the Cape Hatteras tower, recently saved from destruction.
A lighthouse lexicon
An alphabetical guide to people, places, and equipment associated with lighthouses, accentuated by accompanying illustrations.
Lighthouses around the world
Facts and photos of lighthouses from the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Norway, Australia and several other countries.
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HERRESHOFF OF BRISTOL.By Maynard Bray & Carlton Pinheiro. Hbk, 250mm x 285mm, 250 pages, monochrome photographs.
In 1878 John Brown Herreshoff, a blind boatbuilder from Bristol, Rhode Island, went into business with his younger brother, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, a naval architect and steam engineer. The name of their new firm was the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.
The partnership was an immediate and lasting success. The same love of competition and technological innovation that had made J.B. and Nat almost unbeatable when as boys they raced sailboats together on Narragansett Bay soon brought them fame as builders of some of the world's fastest steam yachts and torpedo boats. From the first, the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. was noted for the ingenuity and excellence of its designs and its construction methods, for its manufacturing and business efficiency, and for its uncanny ability to create fast and stylish boats.
Although the Herreshoff brothers never lost their love or mastery of steam engineering, it was as producers of outstanding racing and cruising sailboats up to 162 feet in overall length that the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. earned its most enduring fame. Between 1893 and 1914, for the defense of America's Cup, Captain Nat designed and the firm built seven of the largest, most complex and most powerful racing sloops the world has ever known. Of these, five were selected to sail as defenders, and all five were victorious. The firm also launched many hundreds of custom designs, both large and small, and a number of one-design classes that have never been bettered for all-around sailing excitement and pleasure.
J.B.Herreshoff died in 1915. Captain Nat retired from an active role in the business a few years later. Even under new management, however, and in the face of world war and economic adversity, the Herreshoff Mfg.Co. continued to produce yachts, small craft, and naval vessels of the highest quality. It maintained its legendary reputation for excellence until the day it closed its doors forever in 1946.
The story of the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. is the story of a remarkable American dynasty. It is a story as complex and surprising as the minds and characters of the two brilliant Rhode Island brothers who founded the company over a century ago. It directly reflects the tastes and desires of the robber barons who were among the firm's chief patrons. Ultimately it becomes a study in marine art, as practiced by perhaps the greatest yacht designers who ever lived - and by the dedicated craftsmen who faithfully translated his visions into masterworks of metal, wood and canvas.
Yes, the story is rich - and complex. But such is the care and skill with which Maynard Bray and Carlton PinHeiro have researched this book, that even the most arcane aspects of boat-building and steam engineering become clear. Such are the quality, interest, and intimacy of the more than 250 Herreshoff Marine Museum photographs - most of which have never been published - selected to illustrate the narrative, that reading this book is the next best thing to touring the Herreshoff shops in company with J.B. Herreshoff or Captain Nat himself.
Herreshoff of Bristol - a memorably illustrated chronicle of America's first family of yachting - and the boats they built.
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THE HISTORY OF SEAFARING.By Donald S.Johnson and Juha Nurminen. Hbk, 260mm x 350mm, 374 pages, full colour photographs, maps and illustrations.
The seaways were the first global network and they irrevocably linked the destinies of geographically and culturally distant peoples. The History of Seafaring is the definitive volume on navigation and exploration and recounts the motives that drove Europeans to seek routes to the far corners of the globe and in particular the seamanship that made their voyages possible. Fully international in its approach, this outstanding book pieces together the advances in astronomy, navigation, shipbuilding, seamanship and cartography down the ages to tell the fascinating and absorbing story of mankind's relationship with the sea. This story is presented in an elegant format and is richly illustrated with a beautiful selection of rutters and portolan charts, photographs of ship's instruments and artefacts and maritime paintings.
This is what Dava Sobel, the author of Longitude thinks about this book:
"This is a fearless book that has crested waves an tasted salt. Its compass measures as wide as the sea itself, stretching from the dawn of navigation by sun and stars up to the time when the wireless telegraph was adapted at sea. As one would expect - as one would hope - the author, Donald S,Johnson, is experienced not only as a historian but also as a sailor who has crossed the Atlantic single-handedly in a small boat several times. To read The History of Seafaring is to voyage vicariously through 3000 years of maritime history with no fear of getting lost"
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THE STORY OF THE AMERICA'S CUP 1851 - 2000.We have a small quantity of this earlier version for sale at a special price. This edition, even though it only covers the Cup up to 2000, has the added bonus of a painting of Black Magic beating Luna Rossa in the final race, on the front cover.
NZ$50.00 + delivery.
ANTARCTICA - SECRETS OF THE SOUTHERN CONTINENT.By David McGonigal. Hardback with slip case, 256mm x 340mm, 400 pages, full colour photographs.
The Antarctic is the coldest, driest, and windiest region on the Earth. It experiences summers without nights and winters with no daylight. Three-quarters of the world's freshwater is locked up as ice in this frozen continent. Fewer than 20 bird species venture deep into the Antarctic Circle, and no land mammals can survive there. Hidden beneath its thick ice sheets, Antarctica's ancient bedrock reveals a geological history of immense complexity. High above the southern polar region, the local statosphere has become the measure of global climatic changes.
Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent tells the story of the world's wildest and most forbidding region. The book profiles Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands, explores the polar environment and ecology - its geology and geography, flora and fauna - and incorporates current scientific research, conservation issues, and the impact of climate change. Antarctica features the great expeditions of polar exploration and scientific enterprise, from early hypotheses about an unknown southern land, through Amundsen's conquest of the South Pole in 1911, the ratification of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the the subsequent cooerative effort to preserve Antarctica as "a continent for peace and science."
NZ$95.00 + delivery.
TOP YACHT RACES OF THE WORLD.By Sue & Anthony Steward. Hbk, 275mm x 305mm, 160 pages, full colour photographs and drawings.
Top Yacht Races of the World takes a selective look at the most celebrated yachting events around the globe. From the most significant inshore regattas to the greatest offshore and ocean classics, the fascinating text moves from the most technically challenging to the most physically demanding and culminates in the awesome round the world races. The sheer thrill of pitting wits and strength against the elements - the Roaring Forties, submerged ice in the Southern and Arctic oceans or simply the hazardous weather conditions in offshore racing - has been recreated through personal stories of high drama, accompanied by superb photographs.
Maps of the race routes, profiles of amazing feats achieved by memorable sailors and a compendium of the highlights of specific race years ensure that this book serves both as a factual record and a visual showcase of the glamour and sheer physical challenge associated with this most demanding of sports.
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THE LOGANS: NEW ZEALAND'S GREATEST BOATBUILDING FAMILY.
By Robin Elliott and Harold Kidd. Pbk, 260mm x 282mm, 144 pages, 100 monochrome photographs, drawings and boat plans.
Since the 1880's yachts and launches from the yards and sheds of the Logan family have always stood out as shining examples of designers and builders arts. Contemporary reports would invariably describe these boats as having the "Logan style", immediately marking them as outstanding. The Logan racing yachts became champions and their keelboat cruisers and launches performed well above their owners' expectations. These virtues give the Logan name a mystique and pedigree that is highly valued to this day.
Whilst the boats and the yard name are well known throughout New Zealand, the people who created them are not. Robert Logan senior and his sons John, James, Robert, Arch and Willie were all involved in various aspects of the consummate firm known as Logan Brothers, as were Arch's grandsons, Jack and Doug. The family eschewed publicity, preferring their product to speak for them.
The book is illustrated with details and plans of known vessels, and photographs of the vessels and the family. The authors too are well known in New Zealand boating circles as excellent historians and authors of many magazine articles and co-authors of Winkelmann's Waitemata and Southern Breeze.
NZ$50.00 + Delivery.
VINTAGE NEW ZEALAND LAUNCHES, A Winkelmann Portfolio.By Harold Kidd & Robin Elliott. Pbk, landscape 280mm x 260mm, 108 pages, monochrome photographs.
The team of two New Zealand classic-boat authors returns to the local maritime history scene with another very collectable book of excellent reproductions of photos from Henry Winkelmann - New Zealand's equivalent of Beken of Cowes, Isle of Wight.
This book contains a stunning collection of photographs of early powerboats and launches taken from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s. Of 600 Winkelmann recorded powerboat photos around 450 survive and form part of the Auckland War Museum's Winkelmann Collection.
The book is structured chronologically, following the style of the authors' earlier book Winkelmann's Waitemata (now unfortunately out of print), the first image dated 1897 and the last 1928. This period saw the decline of the steam launch in favour of "oil engine" power.
The Photographs are of a wide range of craft, from the obscure to the famous, and from work-boats to speedboats. Boat-historians will be interested to trace the growth and transformation of generic forms such as the "tram-top", the "bridgedecker" and the "flushdecker", as launches finally gained full design-independance from their sailing progenitors.
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ALL THIS AND SAILING TOO, An Autobiography.By Olin J. Stephens II. Hbk, 210mm x 260mm, 279 pages. Monochrome photographs.
Olin Stephens has been at the forefront of yacht design and yacht racing since the 1930's. His innovations pioneered sailing as we know it today. For the first time, Olin reflects on his extraordinary career, writing with clarity and refreshing candour.
This is a wonderful book by the leading American designer of sailing yachts for more than 50 years. We are given a new perspective on the America's Cup competition from the mid-1930s through the 1970's; he describes his favourite offshore designs, beginning with Dorade in 1930 and continuing with other famous yachts including Stormy Weather and Charisma.
This is the autobiography of the leading designer in the great Sparkman and Stephens yacht design firm. It will be a fascinating study for all those who are interested in the progress of yacht design from a personal as well as a technical aspect.
NZ$130.00 + delivery.
HERRESHOFF SAILBOATS By Gregory O. Jones, Hardback, 237mm x 310mm, colour and monochrome photographs.
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island, produced the most technically advanced, popular, and prominent boats of their day. Herreshoff covers some of the major classes of Herreshoff boats including schooners, yawls, and launches, not to mention early steam-powered vessels. The story begins with John and Charles Herreshoff, who founded the boatyard in 1832. The sale of Herreshoff to the Haeffner Corp. in the 1920s is also profiled, as is the company's decision to close its doors rather than to build fiberglass boats. Archival black-and-white photos illustrate a compellingly written history, and modern color photography shows Herreshoff's role in yachting today.
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THOMAS F. MCMANUS AND THE AMERICAN FISHING SCHOONERS. By W.M.P. Dunne, Hardcover, 236mm x 262mm, 406 pages, monochrome photographs and line drawings.
Thomas F. McManus literally changed the face of the New England fishing fleet in the first years of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1880s, he was involved in the design steps that changed the American fishing schooner from a fast, hazardous vessel to a world-renowned paragon of speed, safety, and beauty under sail. Then, in the 1890s, he began to produce his own designs, gradually forsaking his fish business to become a naval architect. For a full twenty-five years his concepts defined the American fishing schooner, and even when engines and nets changed fishing technology entirely, McManus made influential contributions to the new form of fishing vessel.
But this is not simply the story of one man's naval architectural career. McManus was part of the first American-born generation of a family of exceptional Irish immigrants, who brought the skills and traditions of Irish sailmaking with them when they left Skerries for Boston in the 1840s. In tracing the family's background and its successful reestablishment in Boston, Dunne adds nuance and detail to the story of Irish immigration, showing how skilled Irish maritime artisans and fishermen created a niche on the Boston waterfront and rapidly came to dominate the local fishing fleet. The story of McManus is a tale of ethnic integration, the success of which was signalled when the McManus sail loft produced sails for the America's Cup defenders Puritan andMayflower in the 1880s, and in later years when Tom MaManus's sisters married into old Yankee families. To understand this story is to better understand the maritime forces that helped shape America.
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A RACE FOR REAL SAILORS. By Keith McLaren, Hardback, 225mm x 260mm, 250 pages, monochrome photographs.
In the summer of 1920, the public following the latest America's Cup series was frustrated. Every time the wind breezed up, the organizers called off the race. These might be races for men in whites and tender hulls but they hardly displayed the stuff of real ships working in real time. The muttering went up in the taverns of Halifax and Lunenburg: why not show these fancy yachtsmen what the last of the working schooners, manned by genuine salts, could do? A trophy was donated, and the Nova Scotia newspapers put out a challenge to their rivals in Gloucester, the main American fishing port, inviting them to participate in "a race for real sailors."
Exhaustively researched from archives in both countries, this book brings the ships and the men who sailed them to life with an even-handedness never before attempted. The salt spray practically blows off the page as the author's arresting style captures the excitement, incidents, and human drama of each race and the almost living personalities of the schooners that contested them: the Delawana and the Esperanto, the Columbia and the Gertrude L. Thebaud, and dominating all of them, the big brute from Lunenburg, the Bluenose, whose image still shines on the Canadian dime to this day.
Vying for the spotlight with the boats were their larger-than-life skippers. There was Marty Welsh, the admired, hard-driving sailor with nerves of steel; Ben Pine, the scrap dealer whose passion for fishing schooners kept the races afloat when they seemed destined to fade away; Clayton Morrissey, who battled illness and tragedy to do his best for his country; and the irascible, impossible Angus Walters, the fiercely competitive master of the Bluenose, who broke American hearts but whose own heart was broken by his countries refusal to come to the rescue of his beloved craft.
The stirring and poignant tale is illustrated with 51 contemporary photographs and five maps rounded out by a glossary of sailing terms and an appendix of the ever-changing race rules. This is a story that will keep even confirmed land lubbers pegged to the seats, a tale of iron men and wooden ships whose time will never come again.
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SONS OF SINDBAD. By Alan Villiers, Hardback, 252mm x 335mm, 224 pages, monochrome photographs.
Alan Villiers had already made a name for himself as a maritime adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s because, unusually, he combined his maritime skills with a great talent as a pioneering photojournalist. In 1938, when he first went to Arabia, he had just completed an epic three-year voyage around the world in his three-masted schooner, Joseph Conrad. He travelled to Arabia because he was certain that he was living through the last days of sail, and was determined to record as much of them as he was able. It seemed to him, after two decades at sea, that 'as pure sailing craft carrying their unspoilt ways, only the Arab remained'.
Choosing Aden as his starting-point, Villiers looked around for Arab dhow masters prepared to take on a lone Westerner as a crewman. At Aden, he was put in touch with the captain of one of the great Kuwaiti booms then frequenting the port. Her captain, Nejdi, was making the age-old voyage from the Gulf to East Africa, coasting on the north-east monsoon winds with a cargo of dates from Basra. The return voyage would be made in the early summer of 1939, on the first breezes of the south-west monsoon, from East Africa to Kuwait with a cargo of mangrove poles.
From this voyage, made by Arabia's mariners from time immemorial, Villiers fashioned Sons of Sindbad. First published in 1940, this is the sole work of Arabian travel to place the seafaring Arabs centre-stage. It is a great classic of the genre to rank with Thesiger's Arabian Sands, which it pre-dates by almost twenty years. Like Thesiger, Villiers travelled among his companions as an equal, deferring to their superior knowledge of their business, and observing at close quarters their toughness, fortitude and devotion to their work.
As great a treasure as the text are the thousands of photographs Villiers took of this voyage by dhow. Of these, only a handful were originally published in Sons of Sindbad. The collection, deposited at the National Maritime Museum, has remained largely unpublished until now. The images, selected and introduced by William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji and Grace Pundyk, provide an unforgettably vivid memorial of the life and skills of Kuwait's dhow sailors, of the ports along the route, of Kuwait itself, and of the pearl-divers of the Arabian Gulf.
The conventional story of the West's discovery of Arabia and its peoples has been dominated by a celebrity cast of overland explorers, from Niebuhr, Burckhardt, Burton, Palgrave and Doughty in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to T.E.Lawrence, Harry St John Philby and Wilfred Thesiger in the twentieth. Villiers should now be given similar recognition for his exploration of a maritime world now lost to us.
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