Search Results: Titles starting with P from Naval Marine Archive

Time-Life Books, 1980. 1st. very good. bw, col. The Pacific Navigators is one of the Seafarers series books from Time Life.  The book details the European exploration of the Pacific Ocean and the Polynesians who were the first navigators of the Pacific.

Sono Nis Press, Vancouver, 1981, : ill. b/w, photos and line drawings, end paper chart of routes 290 p. Includes, maps, time tables, sea boat stations, and history of the ships journeys including the Empress of Australia, being in Yokohama at the time of the earthquake, escaping the fires and sheltering and assisting the residents of the city in 1923. Good plus - minor rubbing base of spine/ good minus slight chipping and discolouration of dust jacket. Heavy may require extra postage.

W.W. Norton, 1953. 1st. good.The day-by day recounting of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Transatlantic Race of 1952. 248 pages.

Doubleday Canada, Toronto. 1991, 432 p. 27 cm, ill. col. plates, b/w photos, includes index. Very good/very good. The book recalls the Great White Fleet --the palatial passenger ships that provided summer tours of the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence, and the Saguenay, and the splendid summer resort hotels at Murray Bay and Tadoussac. The tragedies are here too, including the burning of the Noronic in Toronto harbor, one of the most awesome disasters in Canadian maritime history. Heavy will require extra postage.

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1977, first edition, 698 p. with index. Illustrated black and white, good plus/ fair some wear and chipping. Story of the amazing effort to build a passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic in the days before World War One. The experience and influence of creating this canal was profound.

Andre Deutsch, 1985, 2nd imp. 259 p. good: former owner sticker, one page some dampness /good: some aging of dj coating. The story is adapted by the author of his time in Japan. He studied in Japan and learned the language. He taught English to the children and lived with locals. He explored Japan's sizzling world of bars, brothels and night clubs and fell in love. He was submersed in a different culture.

Time-Life Books, 1983. 1st. gd. ex-lib decorated boards. One in the series of Time Life books dealing with plate techtonics

Time-Life books, 1983. 1st. fair. ex-lib dec. boards. One of the Time Life series on geology, oceans and their effects on life on earth.  176 pages.

Time-Life Books, 1983. 1st. fair. ex-lib  decorated boards. One of the Time Life series. This volume deals with the shorelines of the seas. 176 pages.

Time-Life Books, 1983. 1st. gd. ex-lib, dec. boards. One of the Time Life series. This volume deals with the atmosphere and weather. 176 pages.

Belknap Press, 1994 Edition: 1st ed. pbk.: xv, 519 p. ; 24 cm. Fine. After the Civil War, Boston underwent a radical and successful transformation from a declining mercantile home port to an important and competitive modern seaport. At the same time, the transition from sail to steam was taking place. Distinguished early work in photography, especially by pioneer marine photographer Nathaniel Stebbins, record deep water sail and steam vessels, naval ships, catboats, schooners, and sloops.Heavy requires extra postage.

McBride, Nast & Co., 1913 edition, 6 p. , 363 p. b/w illus., plates, diagrams, includes index, good plus, slight wear to boards, signature on inner front bd., minor spotting on back, edges of glossary and index. Chapters on selection of boat, navigation, meteorology, knots, rules of the road and motors.

Longmans, Green and Co. London, 1918, Vol. 1. 3rd ed. 3rd imp. 637 p. updated from the original 1904 ed. Very good minus with minor soiling on edges. The stresses and the design, rules of the classification societies, new ship designs, ballast and plating are among the comprehensive topics covered. This first volume is text only (another vol. contains drawings). Heavy will require extra postage.

Camden, ME International Marine Publishing Co. 1988, first US ed., ill. b/w. diags, ports., xii, 244 p. 29 cm. Very good, very good minus slight wear top corner, mylar. The definitive book on the subject providing a detailed analysis of the intricacies of the junk rig. Illustrated throughout by Mike Collins. Heavy will require extra postage.

The body of Japanese industrialist Kenji Sagawa was found in one of his own firm's threshing machines at the cotton gin that has brought prosperity, but also tension, to the little country town of Collamundra. In Pride's Harvest Jon Cleary tells an exciting story, full of intrigue and suspense, while applying his characteristic dry humor and laconic powers of observation to examine corruption in Australian Society. London, HarperCollins, 1991, Hardcover, 24 cm, 288 p., British First. Book is in a near fine condition with some fading of the gilt on the spine. The cover is in a very good condition with a sticky price label on the inside of the dust jacket.

New York: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Transactions for the year 1943, propeller manufacture, "Past, present and future" address by HL Ferguson, gas turbine, high pressure steam,

MacMillan and Co. 1974, 2 imp., very good, dj good - price clipped and faded spine. 307 pgs. including index, illustrated bw with photos and yacht designs - lines. Different aspects of a yacht: rig, hull, sails are discussed.

International Marine Publishing, 1966. 1978, 3imp. fair/fair. traces of tape on end paper and frontispiece, dj water damaged and worn. Lines and plans of various yacht designs.