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Coolie Ships and Oil Sailers

Coolie Ships and Oil Sailers

This book by Basil Lubbock gives a vivid description of two specialised phases of the old sea life in sailing ships. There is still a number of old ...

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£22.00
Bully Hayes - South Sea Pirate

Bully Hayes - South Sea Pirate

An attempt to gather up and straighten out the kinked-up strands in the strange life-line of that notorious South Sea adventurer, Captain William ...

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£30.00
The Down Easters

The Down Easters

This book is an attempt to give a history of these ships, which have long been known to seafarers under two names - The Down Easters, indicating ...

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£24.00
The Western Ocean Packets

The Western Ocean Packets

"Not only America but Europe has good cause to be grateful to these valiant little packet ships, with their self-reliant captains, heavy-fisted mates ...

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£24.00
The Arctic Whalers

The Arctic Whalers

The glamorous Arctic whaling and the amazing life of the whale hunters in their fight to wrest a fortune from the pitiless Northern sea and ...

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£24.00
The Last of the Windjammers (Volume 2)

The Last of the Windjammers (Volume 2)

The second volume embraces the period 1888-1928, forty hard years for the Windjammer. Mr. Lubbock's virile pen draws wonderful word-pictures of the ...

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£40.00
The Nitrate Clippers

The Nitrate Clippers

The feats of the great German "P" boats of F. Laeisz and their French rivals, the checker-sided nitrate barques of Ant. Dom Bordes, are well worthy ...

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£22.00
The Opium Clippers

The Opium Clippers

Of all sea trades that of the opium smuggler was undoubtedly one of the most romantic. The dangers of the trade were as great as the profits. ...

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£24.00
The Last of the Windjammers (Volume 1)

The Last of the Windjammers (Volume 1)

The book was planned to take in every Sailing Ship of any note from the year of the opening of the Suez Canal to the present day, but in practice ...

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£30.00
The China Clippers

The China Clippers

The history of the celebrated clipper ships in the Chinese opium and tea trades. Many of the incidents relating to the great tea races, typhoons, ...

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£24.00
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