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A Time To Die - The Kursk Disaster
Moore, Robert
ISBN: 0385602650
Doubleday January 1, 2002
8vo softcover 289pp very good. On August 12, 2000, Russia's nuclear-powered attack submarine, the Kursk, sank from initially unknown causes in the shallow Barents Sea. At the time it was thought that all of the 118 submariners aboard could still be alive, especially as the sub had sunk in waters only 100 metres deep (the sub itself was a massive 150-odd metres long).This wasn't just the latest submarine to sink either, this was the Russian Federation's newest and biggest submarine - the 'pride of the Northern Fleet" - commissioned in 1995 and sophisticated enough to give the USA a run for its money. But initial duplicity, lack of decent equipment, and a reluctance to involve other nations immediately, pretty much ensured that all 118 crew members of the Kursk never saw the surface again alive.
Price: $12.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 47006 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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All piss & wind : sailing through life / David Salter.
Salter, David
ISBN: 9781741665260
Milsons Point, N.S.W. Random House Australia 2006
8vo softcover 263pp very good. This is a book about the excitement of sailing. The characters, the adventures, the disasters - and the quiet little drink afterwards. No sport generates more anecdotes than ocean racing. It's a world rich in bizarre incidents, outrageous behaviour, intense camaraderie and engaging humour Yachting yarns are the wellspring of a unique folklore that stretches back more than a century. All Piss and Wind celebrates that free-wheeling, larrikin spirit. The author, David Salter, is Australia's leading columnist and feature writer on the sport of offshore sailing. Salter draws on a treasure-trove of stories and lifetime of personal involvement. He provides a first hand, deck-eye view of a world where the line between fun and survival can be perilously thin. All Piss and Wind carries the conviction of experience and the authority of knowledge - all enlivened by the author's sure ear for humour.
Price: $28.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 41982 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Alone Across the Atlantic
Chichester, Francis
London, England George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1968
paperback, Illustrated with b&w photographs. Library stamp in half title. Solid condition, white pages. Includes, sketch plan of gypsy moth III, plans of sails, hull, beaufort wind scale, glossary of terms.
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 5497 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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ATLANTIC ADVENTURE.
Groser John
Ward Lock & cO lTd. 1968. 1st. Edition
with a foreword by "Blondie" Hasler. A book about the single handed Trans Atlantic Race, particularly in 1968. Illustrated with b/w photos, maps, charts , plans and diagrams. Pp 160. Index and appendices. 8vo with dw. GOOD / GOOD
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 6245 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Blue Gum Clippers and Whale Ships of Tasmania
Lawson, Will and The Shiplovers Society of Tasmania
1986 Facsimile
8vo. Softcover. 261pp. Very good. Printed in Sepia. Contents includes 30 Illustrations. Hobart town in 1830, The First Ships of Hobart Town, Bay Whalers of Hobart Town, Whale Ships and Whaling, Traders of Tasmania, Intercolonial and Coastal, Tasmania's Shipbuilders and Their Ships, London Traders, Tasmanian and British, Strange Stories of Ships and Men, Harbour Craft, Coasters and Hulks, Wrecks on Tasmanian Coast and of Tasmanian Ships.
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 45738 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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Classic Sail
Gribbins, Joseph
ISBN: 1567994512
Friedman/Fairfax 1998
square 4to. Hardcover in d/w both very good. Sources, Index. 128pp. Pictorial end pages. Contents includes, Sailboat History, Ancient Sail, Nineteenth Century Sail, Day Boats, Cruising Classics, Racing Classics, Replicas and Teinterpretations, Luxury Yachts
Price: $28.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 39595 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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