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THE QUEST FOR ORIGINS
K.R. Howe
ISBN9780143018575
$25.00

A careful and accessible survey of modern archaeological, anthropological, genetic and linguistic findings about the origins of Maori and Pacific Islanders and the 200 year old history of Western ideas about Polynesian origins.

Penguin Books NZ, Auckland, 2003. Paperback. 235 pages. SECONDHAND


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SENT FORTH A DOVE Discovery of the Duyfken
James Henderson
ISBN9781876268251
$32.50

In 1606 the little Dutch East India Company ship Duyfken was the first European vessel to sight the continent of Australia. This is that story and also of the construction of a replica ship.

University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 1999. Softback. 218 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE MERCHANT OF THE ZEEHAEN
Grahame Anderson
ISBN9780909010751
$55.00

Isaac Gilsemans and the Voyages of Abel Tasman. A vivid picture of Tasman's achievements as navigator and explorer revealing the role played in them by his merchant Isaac Gilsemans.

Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2001. Softback. 162 pages, illustrations. SECONDHAND


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APHRODITE'S ISLAND The European Discovery of Tahiti
Anne Salmond
ISBN97806670073962
$65.00

A fresh history of early Tahiti, considerably richer than any published before, a tour de force, precise in its reconstruction of the political relationships that evolved with the visits of the British, French and Spanish.

Penguin Viking NZ, Auckland, 2009. Hardback with dust jacket. 537 pages. NEW


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CHASING VENUS The Race to Measure the Heavens
Andrea Wulf
ISBN9780434021086
$46.99

Recounts the expeditions to observe the transits, a tale of obsession and personal tragedy, and an inspiring account of Enlightenment science and discovery.

William Heinemann, London, 2012. Hardback with dust jacket. 304 pages. NEW


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THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
J.C. Beaglehole
ISBN713613823
$95.00

New Zealander Professor John Cawte Beaglehole is the doyen of Cook scholars best know for his editing of Cook's complete journals published in 4 volumes by the Haklyut Society. This book is a deeply revealing study of the growth of a complex character, stubborn and passionate yet patient and judicious, seen in his actions as an unrivalled navigator, explorer and commander of men. Sunning to jacket at spine.

A & C Black Ltd. London, 1974. Hardback with dust jacket. 760 pages. SECONDHAND


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CAPTAIN COOK'S WAR AND PEACE The Royal Navy Years 1755-1768
John Robson
ISBN9781742231099
$49.99

The first ever detailed account of Cook's early naval career that helps explain why he was chosen to lead the expedition to the Pacific in 1768, having become supremely and uniquely qualified for the exacting task of exploration.

University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2009. Hardback with dust jacket. 216 pages. NEW


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THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN COOK
James Cook (editor Philip Edwards)
ISBN9780140436471
$32.00

The Journals of Captain Cook provide a vivid first-hand account of his three voyages  of discovery during which he charted the coast of New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and numerous other Pacific Islands. This edition, abridged from the Hakluyt Society’s definitive four-volume collection and preserving Cook’s idiosyncratic spelling, makes this inimitable personal account of his nine years of voyaging accessible to the general reader. Philip Edwards provides an introduction to each voyage and a postscript on the controversy surrounding Cook’s death.

Penguin NZ, Auckland, 2003. Softback. 646 pages, maps. NEW


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THE TRIAL OF THE CANNIBAL DOG. CAPTAIN COOK IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
Anne Salmond.
ISBN9780141021330
$39.95

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas. Anne Salmond traces Cook's three voyagesto the Pacific in fresh and exciting detail; it's a rediscovery of Cook, sympathetic and probing, as Salmond follows his travels in a kind of psychological pursuit. This account has received much critical acclaim.

Penguin NZ, Auckland. Softback. 506 pages. NEW. 


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TUPAIA The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
Joan Druett
ISBN9781869793869
$55.00

Tupaia sailed with Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the south pacific and was the ship's interpreter. Lauded by Europeans as 'an extraordinary genius', Tupaia was also a master navigator, a brilliant orator and a most devious politician.

Random House, Auckland, 2011. Hardback. 439 pages. NEW


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ENDEAVOUR, THE STORY OF CAPTAIN COOK’S FIRST GREAT EPIC VOYAGE
Peter Aughton
ISBN 0304362360
$49.95

A vivid account of life on board the Endeavour during Cook’s first voyage of discovery 1768-1771. This voyage resulted in the mapping of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and numerous ethnographic and botanical discoveries.

Cassell & Co., London, 2002. Hardback with dust-jacket, illustrated. 256 pages. NEW


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CAPTAIN COOK AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
T.C. Mitchell (Editor)
ISBN 071410889
$35.00

Essays about Joseph Banks’s artists, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s pantomime Omai, Cook’s views on ancient Pacific voyaging, artefacts from Cook’s voyages and art and ethnographica from the Solomon Islands

British Museum, London, 1979. Hardback with dust-jacket, illustrated. 249 pages. SECONDHAND


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RESOLUTION, CAPTAIN COOK’S SECOND VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
Peter Aughton
ISBN 0297830775
$45.00

Resolution, Captain Cook's Second Voyage of Discovery. On 13 July 1772, James Cook set sail with two ships, the Resolution and Adventure to further map the Pacific and explore its natural history. It was during this three year epic that 10 of Cook’s men from the Adventure were captured and killed by the Maori.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2004. Hardback with dust-jacket, illustrated 189 pages.  NEW


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SEA OF DANGERS. CAPTAIN COOK AND HIS RIVALS.
Geoffrey Blainey.
ISBN9780670072231
$55.00

Sea of Dangers, Captain Cook and his Rivals. This is the most revealing narrative so far written of Cook's astonishing voyage along the east coast of Australia. It also casts light on the little known voyage of Jean de Surville; Blainey argues that the Frenchman was in the vicinity of Sydney Harbour months before Cook arrived.

Penguin Viking. Hardback. 420 pages. NEW. 


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IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN COOK
Dan O’Sullivan
ISBN 9781845114831
$75.00

Much is known about Cook’s exploits as a navigator and explorer but few have been able to assess his character. The author uses Cook’s journals to build up a picture of the man behind the official portraits and accounts.

Tauris & Co. Hardback with dust-jacket, illustrated. 263 pages. NEW


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CAPTAIN COOK Voyager Between Worlds
John Gascoigne
ISBN9781847250025
$45.00

Like insects ibn amber, the records of Cook's voyages capture that rare moment when two different cultures saw each other actoss a frontier that was open and uncluttered by previous encounters. This is the theme here.

Continuium Books, London, 2007. Hardback with dust jacket. 288 pages. NEW


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THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
Richard Hough
ISBN0333234774
$35.00

After describing the voyage in great detail the series of related mishaps, follies, fantasies and wild misunderstandings that led to Cook's murder are here presented with the inevitability of a classical tragedy. This is not the Captain Cook of the earlier voyages.

Macmillan Ltd., London, 1979. Hardback with dust jacket. 271 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK
J.C. Beaglehole, OM
110221921
$45.00

A detailed examination of the death of Cook in Hawaii compiled from original sources by the premier Cook scholar and editor of Cook's Journals for the Haklyut Society. Published on the bicentennial of his death. Limited edition, No. 240 of 1000.

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, 1979. Hardback with dust jacket (small ring mark). 21 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK. A HERO MADE AND UNMADE.
Glyn Williams.
ISBN9781861978424
$39.99

This new interpretation of Cook's life and death argues that the circumstances and reporting of his death are the key to his reputation. For many years this seaman enjoyed unparalleled status as the pride of his century. By contrast a different view began to emerge of a destructive invader, more anti-hero than hero. Cook's progress from obscurity to fame and then, for some, to infamy, is a story that has never been fully told.

Profile Books,, London, 2008. Hardback. 198 pages. NEW. 


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THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK
David Samwell
ISBN9780708320730
$39.99

Explores one of the classic accounts of Cook's death in Hawaii by the voyage surgeon David Samwell, a Welshman who was believed by his contemporaries to be a literary man touched by genius. Also includes previously unpublished letters relating to the voyage.

University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2007. Softback. 170 pages. NEW


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THE FLOWERING OF THE PACIFIC
Brian Adams
ISBN9780002174725
$47.50

A narrative of the three year voyage of Joseph Banks in the Endeavour with Cook and of the numerous new plants he gathered at various landfalls, most notably in New Zealand and Australia. Also the story of Banks' Florilegium and the eventual publication of the 738 engraved plates two centuries later.

William Collins Pty Ltd., Sydney, 1986. Hardback with dust jacket. 194 pages. SECONDHAND


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TUHITUHI William Hodges, Cook's Painter in the South Pacific
Laurence Simmons
ISBN9781877578175
$60.00

William Hodges was the artist, 'a landskip painter', who travelled with Cook on the second voyage in the Resolution and Adventure. Each chapter of this book focuses on the close reading of a significant painting of a South Pacific location and opens fresh theoretical perspectives.

Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2011. Hardback with dust jacket. 346 pages. NEW


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NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY IN NEW ZEALAND The Voyages of James Cook
Wayne Orchiston
ISBN0473053039
$37.50

An interesting monograph on the astonomy and astronomers of Cook's three voyages, together with details of the astronomical instruments and equipment. Carter Observatory Monograph No. 1. A limited edition of 750 copies.

Carter Observatory Board, Wellington, 1998. Softback. 131 pages. SECONDHAND


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COOK BICENTENARY EXPEDITION in the South-West Pacific 1969
Ronald Fraser
210250704
$35.00

The findings of a joint Royal Society of New Zealand and Royal Society of London scientific expedition to the Cook Islands, Tonga Islands and surrounding seas. In commemoration of the Cook voyage two hundred years earlier.

Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington, 1971. Softback. 141 pages. SECONDHAND


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INTO THE BLUE, BOLDLY GOING WHERE CAPTAIN COOK HAS GONE BEFORE
Tony Horwitz
ISBN9780747560471
$37.50

Into the Blue, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. Contemporary adventurer Tony Horwitz recounts Cooks voyages of discovery by revisiting the lands and peoples Cook discovered centuries earlier.

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2004. Hardback with dust jacket. 480 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE SHIP Retracing Cook's Endeavour Voyage
Simon Baker
ISBN9780563534631
$37.50

Tells the story of volunteers who sailed the Endeavour replica ship on the original route from the Great Barrier Reef to Indonesia, taking a fresh look at the great voyage through the experiences of a modern crew.

BBC Worldwide Ltd., London, 2002. Hardback with dust jacket. 223 pages. SECONDHAND


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TWO WORLDS. First Meetings between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772
Anne Salmond
ISBN9780670832989
$120.00

Traditional accounts of first contact between Maori and Europeans have been from the perspective of the explorers. This is a penetrating rethinking of encounter. Both Maori and European protagonists were active and fully human, following their own practical, political and mythological agendas.

Viking Penguin, Auckland, 1991. Hardback with dustjacket. 477 pages. SECONDHAND


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BEYOND THE CAPES. Pacific Exploration 1776-1877
Ernest C. Dodge
ISBN0575013222
$25.00

Pacific exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger 1776-1877. Pacific exploration did not end with Cook and this volume describes the explorers and achievements that came after him.

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1971. Hardback with dust jacket. 429 pages. SECONDHAND


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EUROPEAN VISION AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
Bernard Smith
ISBN0063120623
$47.50

A fully revised and illustrated second edition of the classic study discusses the interpretation of the Pacific in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It considers the work of artists attached to the scientific voyages of the time and elucidates the ways in which such work is related to the scientific interests and prevaling ideas of the era.

Harper and Row Publishers, Sydney, 1984. Hardback with dust jacket. 370 pages. SECONDHAND


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EARLY EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF MAORI LIFE 1769
Isabel Ollivier and Cheryl Hingley
ISBN0477060285
$65.00

Extracts from Journals relating to the visit to New Zealand of the French ship St Jean Baptiste in December 1769 under the command of Jean F.M. de Surville with an appendix of charts and drawings. French text and English translation side by side.

Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, 1982. Hardback, no dust jacket as issued. 225 pages. SECONDHAND


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NEW ZEALAND AND THE FRENCH Two Centuries of Contact
Edited by John Dunmore
ISBN090870819X
$65.00

A fascinating collection of essays on the impact of France on New Zealand, from the earliest sightings of a new and unknown land to the political and economic issues of more recent times.

The Heritage Press Ltd., Waikanae, 1990. Hardback with dust jacket. 213 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE FRENCH AND THE MAORI
Edited by John Dunmore
ISBN0908708289
$75.00

A fascinating collection of essays making an unusual contribution to New Zealand history by presenting early contact from an exclusively French point of view, be they travellers, scientists, artists, novelists or missionaries.

The Heritage Press Ltd., Waikanae, 1992. Hardback with dust jacket. 203 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE FATEFUL VOYAGE of the St JEAN BAPTISTE
John Dunmore
210250322
$32.50

An account of the remarkable expedition of French navigator M. de Surville's voyage of pacific exploration that saw him off the coast of Northland in 1769 at the same moment as Cook though the two ships passed out of sight of each other.

Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1969. Hardback with dust jacket. 127 pages. SECONDHAND


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WHERE FATE BECKONS The Life of Jean-Francois de la Perouse
John Dunmore
ISBN9780908988532
$49.99

The mystery of the dissapearance of La Perouse in 1788 during his long voyage of discovery in the Pacific was solved almost 40 years later, yet it still facinates people and expeditions continue to search for his body and the remains of his ships. What was it about this man that has exerted such an influence for so long. A very readable account of French exploration in the pacific.

Exisle Publishing, Auckland, 2006. Hardback with dust jacket. 292 pages. NEW


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CAPTAIN MARION
Alexander Dumas
110280202
$55.00

An account of the massacre of Captain Marion du Fresne by the Maories in 1772 written by Alexander Dumas pere and now translated for the first time by F.W. Reed.

The Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1949. Hardback with dust jacket. 53 pages. SECONDHAND


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CAPTAIN MARION
Alexandre Dumas
ISBN9781877151255
$40.00

An account of the murder of French Pacific explorer Captain Marion de Fresne at the Bay of Islands in 1772, translated by F.W. Reed who was a Dumas scholar and collector of his books, now in the Auckland public library. First published in 1949, this is a facsmile reprint.

Cadsonbury Publications, Christchurch, 1998. Softback. 56 pages. NEW


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BELLINGHAUSEN A Visit to New Zealand: 1820
Glynn Barratt
ISBN0908564333
$47.50

An account of the Russian south pacific expedition led by F.G. von Bellinghausen that visited the Marlborough Sounds in 1820. Translated from the Russian for the first time. Illustrated with pictures of rare Maori artifacts now in Russia.

The Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1979. Hardback with dust jacket. 183 pages. SECONDHAND


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DUPERREY'S VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND IN 1824
Andrew Sharp, editor
210211302
$45.00

Accounts and illustrations from records of Duperrey's visit in La Coquille, that provides some very interesting details if Maori and Europen life in New Zealand at the time. Sunning to spine.

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, 1971. Hardback with dust jacket. 125 pages, folding chart to rear. SECONDHAND


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FROM VENUS TO ANTARCTICA The Life of Dumont d'Urville
John Dunmore
ISBN9780908988716
$54.99

Explorer, navigator, botanist, hydrographer, philologist and writer; Dumont d'Urville was gifted and his achievements were numerous. Yet like the statue of the Venus de Milo, which he helped to take to France, he was flawed. This first full biography in English reveals every facet of this complex man.

Exisle Publishing, Auckland, 2007. Hardback with dust jacket. 252 pages. NEW


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NEW ZEALAND 1826-1827, FROM THE FRENCH OF DUMONT D'URVILLE
Olive Wright
0099
$80.00

New Zealand 1826-1827 from the French of Dumont D’Urville. ‘An English translation of the Voyage de l’Asrolabe in New Zealand waters with an introductory essay by Olive Wright.'

 

Wingfield Publishing, Wellington, 1950. Hardback with dust-jacket. Illustrated, 251 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE VOYAGE OF THE ASTROLAB 1840
Olive Wright
110290411
$45.00

An English rendering of the Journals of Dumont D'Urville and his Officers of their visit to New Zealand in 1840, together with some account of Bishop Pompallier and Charles, Baron de Thierry.

A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1955. Hardback with dust jacket. 180 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE AGGRESSIONS OF THE FRENCH AT TAHITI
George Pritchard
ISBN0196479940
$55.00

The aggressions of the French at Tahiti and other islands of the Pacific by George Pritchard, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul 1837-1844. The manuscript is in the Alexander Turnbull Library and edited by Paul de Deckker was published for the first time in this volume.

Auckland University Press, 1983. Hardback with dust jacket. 253 pages. SECONDHAND


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IN BLIGH'S HAND Surviving the Mutiny on the Bounty
Jennifer Gall
ISBN9780642277053
$44.95

When Christian Fletcher led a mutiny against the iron rule of William Bligh on the Bounty, Bligh and 18 of his men were abandoned in a small boat with meagre rations. Based on Bligh's notebook, this is his account of how they survived a 47 day voyage to safety.

National Library of Australia. Softcovers. Illustrated. 234 Pages. NEW


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CAPTAIN BLIGH'S SECOND CHANCE
Lt. George Tobin
ISBN9781861762801
$65.00

The unfamiliar story of Bligh's second voyage to the South Pacific, commenced in 1791, only one year after his return to England following the Bounty munity. This time the origional mission, transplanting breadfruit trees to the West Indies, was completed. This is a journal of the voyage kept by Lieutenant George Tobin, published for the first time.

Chatham Publishing, London, 2007. Hardback with dust jacket. 184 pages. NEW


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BLIGH William Bligh in the South Seas
Anne Salmond
ISBN9780670075560
$65.00

The author draws on her unrivalled knowledge of early Polynesian cultures to re-tell the extaordinary story of William Bligh's voyages and the munity on the Bounty.

Penguin Viking, Auckland, 2011. Hardback with dust jacket. 528 pages. NEW


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TERRA AUSTRALIS Matthew Flinders' Circumnavigation of Australia
Matthew Flinders
ISBN9781876485924
$30.00

First published in 1814, Flinders vividly describes his voyages to map the great island continent between 1796 and 1803. Includes the journey made with George Bass to prove Tasmania an island and the voyage of the Investigator. He writes of meeting Aborigines, French explorers and Macassan fishing fleets. Compelling history.

Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2008. Softback. 268 pages. NEW


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THE LIFE OF MATTHEW FLINDERS
Ernest Scott
ISBN9780207197178
$35.00

This biography was first published in 1914 to honor the centenary of Flinders' death. This new edition was timed to coincide with the bicentenary. Flinders was the first explorer to complete the cicumnavigation of the Australian continent.

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 2001. Softback. 371 pages, illustrations. SECONDHAND


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PACIFIC ENCOUNTERS. Art & Divinity in Polynesia, 1760-1860
Steven Hooper
ISBN9781877385209
$49.95

Illustrates nearly 300 objects from New Zealand and the Pacific gathered during the 18th and 19th centuries by European voyagers, missionaries and settlers.

Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2006. Softback. 287 pages. NEW


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AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC
Thor Heyerdahl
110201601
$75.00

The theory behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition. Polynesia and the old World, Polynesia and Northwest America, the road through Hawaiki and the complexity of Polynesian origins. Botanical evidence of Polynesian routes, aborigional Peruvian navigation in the Pacific.

George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1952. Cloth boards, no dustjacket. 821 pages, illustrations. SECONDHAND


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THE BURNING OF THE 'BOYD' A Saga of Culture Clash
Wade Doak
ISBN0340338857
$32.50

The story of the episode culture clash, part of the early colonial Australian and New Zealand history that took place in Whangaroa habour in 1809. 

Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, 1984. Hardback with dust jacket. 184 pages. SECONDHAND


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SEA OF GLORY The US Exploring Expedition 1838-1842
Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN9780670032310
$32.50

The full story of the United States Pacific exploring expedition led by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, that spent four years in the region conducting one of the most comprehensive scientific surveys ever conducted that included some of the first discoveries of the antarctic continent. 

Viking Penguin, New York, 2003. Hardback with dust jacket. 452 pages. SECONDHAND


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IN THE HEART OF THE SEA
Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN9780002570572
$30.00

An account of one of the most horrifying stories in maritime history, the sinking of the American whaleship Essex by an enraged sperm whale and the subsequent ordeal of the survivors in the empty Pacific ocean.

Harper Collins Publishers, London, 2000. Hardback with dust jacket. 302 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE MARINE CHRONOMETER
John Cronin
ISBN9781847971852
$37.50

Provides a comprehensive history of these aids to navigation and explains how they work. Includes details of developmen of the Harrison chronometers, one of which came to New Zealand with Cook.

The Crowood Press, Marlborough, UK, 2010. Hardback with dust jacket. 112 pages. NEW


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FELLOWSHIP OF THREE
A.W. Beasley
ISBN9780864175427
$37.50

The interesting story of the surprising links between three great men of late eighteenth century science, explorer James Cook, botonist Joseph Bamks and the surgeon John Hunter.

Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1993. Hardback with dust jacket. 80 pages. SECONDHAND


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THE ADMIRALTY HYDROGRAPHIC SERVICE 1795-1919
Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald Day
310230311
$55.00

The absorbing history of the oldest department of the Navy Office compiled from the mass of original archive material, in the department collection of charts, letters and reports. Illustrations. Small piece clipped from front free end paper.

Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London, 1967. Hardback, no dust jacket. 378 pages, reproductions  of 10 folding charts. SECONDHAND