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The Penance Way – The Mystery of Puffin’s Atlantic Voyage – Merton Naydler

Published by Hutchinson, London a first edition 1968.

Octavo, 252 pages with end paper charts, photographic illustrations and diagrams. Nicely put together and a very good copy.

David Johnstone and John Hore lost their lives mid-Atlantic in 1966. The fifteen-foot Puffin was found upturned. Extraordinarily, Johnstone had left behind a 35,000-word journal … upon which this book is primarily written.

Courage and tenacity documented to the very end.

$25.00

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Capsize! – A Story of Survival in the North Atlantic – Nicolas Angel

A first English edition published by Norton, New York and London in 1980. Published the prior year in French.

Octavo, 176 pages nicely illustrated from photographs with charts etc.

The trimaran RTL-Timex capsized in a storm sailing from Bermuda to New York. The crew, under skipper Alan Gilksman, made the raft and a frantic nine days of gales and high seas ensued. Several ships missed them before they were finally recovered … just in time for some crew members who almost perished.

Frightening North Atlantic Experience .. impossible to put down

$25.00

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Wake of the Invercauld – Madelene Ferguson Allen

First edition 1997, published by Exisle Publishers, Auckland, New Zealand. Large octavo, 256 pages well illustrated with images and maps. Very good if not as new condition. A super book.

In 1864 the Invercauld was shipwrecked on the remote Auckland Islands in the sub-Antarctic Ocean south of New Zealand. The author Madelene Ferguson Allen is the great-granddaughter of one of only three who ultimately survived the shipwreck or the subsequent hash conditions on the island.

More than a shipwreck book Allen draws on original manuscripts, details the early year of Robert Holding and his time in Australia, refers to the First Mate’s Narrative (kindly gifted) … her two visits to the Auckland Islands produced some lovely photographic images and extended the historical content … now carefully controlled as a genuinely untouched wildlife sanctuary the book brings the cold island group to life

Special book about a tragic event and a special island

$50.00

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An Imperial Disaster – The Wreck of George the Third (off Bruny Island) – Michael Roe

Published in Hobart by Blubber Press in 2006. Large octavo, 293 pages, well illustrated and in very good near fine condition.

This limited edition (750) book by Michael Roe is packed with research.

On 12 April 1835 the George the Third hit a rock entering the D’Entrecasteaux Channel with the loss of 133 lives all but six convicts. Essential Tasmanian reading.

More than a shipwreck book

$50.00

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Australian Shipwrecks – Volume 4 – (1901-1987) – Jack Loney (Signed by the Author)

Volume 4 of this cornerstone Australian wreck series. Loney’s update and extension to the period 1901- 1986 and the standard is maintained.

Small quarto, 284 pages, heavily illustrated from period photographs.

Published in 1987 and signed by the author on the Title Page. A bit foxed on the page edges, other than that it is a bright copy in a complete and unmarked dust jacket.

Essential Australian Shipwreck

$50.00

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Australia’s Shipwreck Coast (and Other Stories) – Jack Loney

Square octavo,soft cover 103 pages including the index. Some signs of use but still in very good condition.

Jack Loney published this soft cover in 1986 focusing on the many wrecks along the coast of Victoria. As always with his work well researched and magnificently illustrated.

Victorian Coast littered with wrecks.

$20.00

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