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London: William Kimber, 1976. Book in very good condition, very slight foxing on top and front edges, no foxing on pages. Dustjacket in very good condition, top edge very slightly bumped. 192pp. By combining his own encounters with the sea with graphic reconstructions of bygone adventures and disasters the author makes yesterday's events living experiences.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. 377pp. Novel. From d/j flap - ' When a wrecked Israeli submarine - mysteriously lost after the Six Day War - is discovered by an American geological research vessel in a deep trench fifty miles west of Crete, a long-buried enigma is about to be solved.'. ... more information

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Bowley, Isle of Scilly. 1957.. Fourth edition,( revised and augmented). 143pp. With illustrations and maps. The Isles of Scilly are a group of very small islands in the Atlantic off the coast of Cornwall, which enjoy a much warmer climate than the British Isles. The legends, folklore, local customs, shipwrecks and people of the islands. Dustjacket in good condition, two 1/2" closed tears on the front and back at bottom edge, bottom edge slightly rubbed, back cover slightly grubby (see picture). Book in... more information

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London: Leo Cooper, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition, maps on endpapers. Dustjacket in fine condition. xii, 259pp, including bibliography and index. With 6 illustrations, 2 drawings of an early XIXth century brig, and 8 Tables. From d/j flap - " The true adventures that befell a group of men, women, children who were shipwrecked on the remote and then deserted Falkland islands. Two ships came to the rescue, one British and one American, a situation which was complicated by the outbreak ... more information

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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover in near fine condition. Maps on endpapers. Dustjacket in very good+ condition, 10cms crease line by spine on back cover starting at the top edge. 160pp including index. . With over 150 illustrations, most in full colour. The Spanish galleon Atocha foundered in a sudden hurricane in September 1622 and was swept headlong into the coral reefs of the Florida Keys. She was bound home from Havana filled with treasure for King Philip IV. Generations of t... more information

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London: Simon and Schuster, 1998. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. 417pp. With 11 colour and 41 black-and-white illustrations. Pictorial endpapers. From d/j flap -" The extraordinary story of Jessop who was the son of a penniless Yorkshire mill girl, who went on to salvage over $100 million of Russian gold from the bottom of the Artic Ocean. The ten tons of gold had sunk with the warship HMS Edinburgh in World War Two. The story of untold riches against a backdrop of piracy, big ... more information

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London: Macmillan, 1964. Book in very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped. Dustjacket in good condition, spine a little faded, back cover a l marked (dust?) sides and ends of spine, and top and side of front edge rubbed. Price clipped. xix, 553pp. With 16 black-and-white illustrations and 6 maps. John Smith was born in obscurity in Lincolnshire in 1580, was a colonist, adventurer and promoter - became a soldier of fortune on the continent. He then became actively interested in England's new v... more information

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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. Book in very good condition, outer corner edges slightly bumped. Dustjacket in very good condition, slight crease along bottom edge of back cover, spine ends very slightly bumped. 513pp. Novel - A romance of navigation and science in the mid-seventeenth century. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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Little, Brown, 1998. Book in very good condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, slightly bumped along top edge, and front bottom edge. xvi, 507pp. In September 1857 the steamer S.S. Central America, carrying five hundred passengers, many of them returning from the Gold Rush in California, sank in a hurricane off the Carolina coast. In 1989 Tommy Thompson sailed into Norfolk harbour with over ten tons of pioneer gold which they had recovered from the ill-fated streamer, after battling storms, technol... more information

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Sparkford, U.K: Patrick Stephens/Haynes , 1996. Book in fine condition, blue boards, with gilt lettering on spine. Dustjacket in very good condition, just a hint of rubbing at top spine edge and top corner edges. 183pp. With 149 black-and-white photographs in text. From d/j flap - "More than 1400 memorials are detailed. Each have a tale to tell - of Heroism, battles, discovery, fire, piracy, murder, mayhem. Many were built to commemorate lives lost in shipwrecks, or the lifeboat crews who fought to sa... more information

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