Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land

Presents a spellbinding chronicle of the centuries of searching by explorers convinced that the bottom of the world must contain a great Terra Incognita, whose mass balanced the land at the top, a conviction that led to the discovery of Australia.

History

ESTENSEN, Miriam

Australia & Oceania

Conway Maritime Press

Excerpt from War at Sea: Modern Theory and Ancient Practice The author has sketched the theory of war generally accepted as underlying the practice of the great leaders by sea and land in the past. As the subject has been treated at length in several works of recognised authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

War at Sea: Modern Theory and Ancient Practice

Engineering & Transportation

Reginald Custance

Engineering

A Mariner of England. An Account of the Career of William Richardson from Cabin boy in the Merchant service to Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy as told by himself

A mariner of England: An account of the career of William Richardson from cabin boy in the Merchant Service to warrant officer in the Royal Navy (1780-1819)

Richardson, William and edited Colonel Spencer Childers

Sailing Barges

Carr, Frank G. G.

Greenwich Park: its history and associations, (Thamesmead histories)

Angus Duncan Webster

Modern History of Warships

William Hovgaard

Collier Brigs and Their Sailors

Literature & Fiction

Runciman, Sir Walter

Literary

Waterline Ship Models

BOWEN, John

No dj. Cover has sharp corners, couple of small indentations on front. Pages are clean, bright, unmarked. Ships fast from Northern California.

"Q" Ships and Their Story

Edward Keble Chatterton

Military

The tea clippers: An account of the China tea trade and of some of the British sailing ships engaged in it from 1849 to 1869,

MacGREGOR, David R.

Asia

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