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A complete revision of the original edition, much rewritten and new material and more plates and diagrams. Technical developments, design, gear, hints, tips and practical detail needed for ocean yachting. 315 pages with 49 full page plates, 65 diagrams, and endpaper chart. Book in near fine condition with small booksellers sticker inside front cover and previous owners signature on front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition price clipped with minor wear to edges.
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Voyaging Under Sail
by Eric C Hiscock
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Sketching and Painting A Step by Step Introduction
by F C Johnston
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For the real beginner - a step by step approach to sketching techniques and such essentials as the artist's eye, composition and the use of water colours, oils, and acrylics. 156 pages with 78 figures of which 35 in colour. Book in very good+ condition with black line top edge and minor mark back cover.
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The Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise and Fall of the Aztec Nation
by G C Vaillant
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The fullest authoritative account of the people of Mexico before Columbus, their institutions, religion, arts, buildings, and daily life. 333 pages fully illustrated by line drawings and 64 pages of plates. Book in very good+ condition with fading.
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The West
by Geoffrey C Ward
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An illustrated history of the American West. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, this is the history of the West as it really happened. Richly illustrated with a combination of paintings and photographs, many of them previously unpublished. 445 pages in fine condition. Dust jacket in fine condition with minor bumping to a small part.
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Moscow Dateline 1941-1943
by Henry C Cassidy
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The author was part of the Russia scene when Russia was still living in peace with Germany and was there when Germany attacked opening up the second front in World War 2. The author wrote to Stalin about the second front and was answered twice explicitly and without evasion. 256 pages. Book in good+ condition with inscription to previous owner on first page, small booksellers sticker inside front cover, tanning and minor edge stain to 12 pages. Dust jacket in good- condition with some chips and tears and wear (see photo).
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Valiant Youth: The Men of the RAAF
by J C Waters
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Signed by the author commemorating his secretary's engagement. A cameo of a score of Australia's flyers in World War 2. 103 pages with 1 colour illustration,7 pages of black and white photographs and 16 drawings. Book in very good condition with light tanning, and some foxing inside front and back covers. Cover shows some wear (see photo).
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Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret that Destroyed Nazi Germany
by Louis C Kilzer
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Great Britain shunned opportunities to end the war because it sought to dismember Germany not merely destroy Hitler. Hitler wanted a pact that would return his Western conquests in exchange for Germany's interest in the East. Churchill stoked Hitler's obsessive desire for peace with Britain to build defences and when all seemed lost he invited Rudolf Hess to England to attend a peace conference. 335 pages with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp and number on last page and sticker inside back cover. Dust jacket in good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back and tear on back.
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Prehistory; A study of early cultures in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin
by M C Burkitt
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The various human civilizations in Europe and the north coast of Africa during those early periods before historical record was invented. 438 pages with 47 plates. Book in very good+ condition with foxing to endpapers and some light tanning. Cover has some minor wear (see photos)
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Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef
by T C Roughley
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In the Great Barrier Reef nature has allowed herself to run riot - a 1,250 miles of coral wonderland with its attendant animal life. 279 pages with 35 colour and 15 black and white Plates and front endpaper maps. Book in very good condition with some tanning. No dust jacket.
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Modern Ship Design
by Thomas C Gillmer
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An introduction to naval architecture including basic theories and foundations of the art and science for naval application and design and new techniques - physical theories of buoyancy, stability, fluid resistance, and mechanics as they apply to ships. The modern navy has need for a multiplicity of watercraft making naval ships representative of all ships and the best of ships. 336 pages with more than 300 drawings, pictures, charts, and tables. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in good condition with small tear top spine, a chip, knocks and some wear (see photo).
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The Battlefields of the Civil War
by William C Davis
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Between 1861 and 1865 civil war raged across America involving thousands of military engagements. This book tells the story of thirteen of some of the most important battles. 256 pages with black and white and colour photographs, colour maps and colour drawings throughout. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition. This is a large book postage $14 in Australia.
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The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry & the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
by Deborah Cadbury
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Intrigue and deception, ambition and failed dreams - clashes of the 19th Century men who discovered dinosaurs. 374 pages including 40 pictures throughout the text. Book in very good condition with small marks to top.
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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
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The truth behind the epic monuments of the Industrial Revolution - how the modern world was really formed in rivets, grease and steam; in blood,sweat and human imagination. 376 pages with 16 pages of black and white photos. Book in very good condition ex library with 2 stamps on first page and three stamps on last page. Dust jacket very good with clear cover.
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Terrible Lizard; The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science
by Deborah Cadbury
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In 1812 a twelve year old girl, Mary Anning, discovered the outline of a lizard-like skeleton in the limestone cliffs of Dorset which attracted the attention of William Buckland who used that find and other remnant fossils to try and understand the world before Noah's flood. Meanwhile another naturalist, Gideon Mantell discovered giant fossil bones in a Sussex quarry and came to realize the ancient past must have teemed with creatures of great size. Despite their efforts it was Richard Owen who claimed the credit for the discovery of dinosaurs. 374 pages with approx 40 black and white illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.
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The Conquest of Gaul
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Translated by S A Handford with revisions by Jane Gardner. The only narrative written by a great general of antiquity about his own campaigns, Julius Caesar, between 58 and 50 BC, conquered almost the whole of modern France, Belgium, and Switzerland with parts of Holland and Germany but also invaded Britain twice. 269 pages with 4 maps. Book in very good condition with some tanning.
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Ape Man; The Story of Human Evolution
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The story of our evolution - there have been many species of human-like creatures in the past but now all but homo sapiens are extinct. Where did we come from and what makes us human? 192 pages with around 100 colour Illustrations, some black and white illustrations and 3 maps. Book in very good+ condition ex library with stamp on front and back endpaper. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with sticker on front and spine (see photo). A large book but no increase in postage in Australia.
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About the Size of it: The Common Sense Approach to Measuring Things
by Warwick Cairns
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A full and convincing account of why our well-tried and trusted traditional measures make human sense - the secrets and tricks of how we measure the world around us.155 pages with black and white illustrations. Book and cover in near fine condition with little evidence of reader wear.
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Einstein's Universe
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The accompanying book to the television special marking the centenary of Einstein's birth - he utterly transformed the way we view the world, revolutionizing our ideas of space, time and motion - we live in Einstein's universe. 154 pages with 12 pages of black and white illustrations. Book in good condition ex library with stamp on back endpaper, reference on publishing page and tanning. Dust jacket in good condition in clear wrapper price clipped with sticker on spine and back.
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Cadogan's Crimea
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Lt Col Calthorpe provides the text of his observations of the Crimean War while Colonel George Cadogan recorded his observations in watercolours. An abridged and illustrated edition of the original published in 1856. Art and military history combined to extraordinary effect. 288 pages with numerous pictures, many in colour, throughout. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.
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How War Came: The immediate origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939
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The author explains how Europe's leaders were influenced and misled by Hitler's demonic drive for power and the reasons for a multicausal war that reshaped the world. 736 pages with 24 pages of black and white photographs and a map. Book in very good condition with previous owners name on first page and general tanning. Cover has a small tear bottom front and sellers sticker on back.
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