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RELIC
OF THE MARY ROSE
Published originally in
1841 but this edition was re-published in 1995 for the 175th anniversary
of Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd. The cover is made of wood and leatherette
and has a gold Siebe Gorman crest. There are only sixteen pages in the
book, all pages being edged in gold leaf. It measures 4 inches (10 cms)
by 3 inches (7.5 cms). Each copy made was given a unique number of a limited
edition. Covers the story of the Mary Rose that sunk at Spithead in July
1545. |
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RELIC
OF THE ROYAL GEORGE
First published in 1842
but this edition was re-published in 1995 for the 175th anniversary of
Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd. The cover is made of wood and leatherette and
has a gold Siebe Gorman crest. The 136 pages are edged in gold leaf.
There is a 3 page fold out print depicting the actual sinking of the ship
in 1782. It measures 4.5 inches (11.2 cms) by 3 inches (7.5 cms). Each
copy made was given a unique number of a limited edition. Covers the story
of the Royal George that sunk at Spithead in August 1782 and how she was
removed by the famous Colonel Paisley of the British Royal Engineers. |
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GREAT SHIPWRECKS AND
CASTAWAYS.
Authentic Accounts of Adventurs
at Sea.
Charles Neider.
Harper and Brothers Publishers,
New York, 1952. Library of Cingress 51-11943.
Hardcover, dust jacket,
238 pages, sources list, no index, no prints.
From the fly:
Here's a collection of sea-going
adventure stories unlike anything you've ever read. From the Arctic to
the Cape of Good Hope, from the days of wooden galleons to modem times,
these are eye-witness accounts of peril on the ocean, on desert islands
and in savage coun- tries. Every word of them is true, set down by the
men and women who, by luck, courage and ingenuity, somehow managed to survive
their harrowing experiences long enough to leave the record. The original
Robinson Crusoe tells in his own words the story from which Defoe took
his famous classic. So does Miss Ann Saunders, a prim young lady who never
expected to be shipwrecked, still less to drink the blood of her own fiance.
And Peter Carder, the resourceful Englishman,who escaped drowning only
to fall among wild animals, drunken cannibals and slave traders. Here also
is the journal of Robert Falcon Scott, who made one of history's grimmest
and most heroic marches across the wastes of the South Pole. Another testament,
found beside its author's skeleton, is a tragic confession of suffering
by a man' abandoned by his shipmates to die in torment. Each of these stories
is a drama of man's battle against the sea and nature, stamped with the
times and personalities of the people who wrote them. To obtain the authentic
material for this volume, Charles Neider has searched through innumerable
documents, for the most part completely new to modern readers. The stories
he found, says Stanley Rogers, "produce in the reader a sense of having
himself experienced the very adventures, sufferings and heroism so powerfully
described in the survivors own records. This is certainly a book that one
should own." |
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THE EMERALD WHALER
William J. Laubenstein.
First published by Andre Deutsch Ltd, no date.
Readers Book Club in association with The Companioin
Book Club, London, 1962.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 240 pages, a few mono prints,
bibliography, no index.
Tells the story of the three-masted whaler Catalpa, which
set out from New Bedford, USA, for Western Australia in 1875 with the objective
of rescuing fellow Irishmen imprisoned at Fremantle for their part
in the Irish rebellion ten years earlier. The rescue of six Fenians was
succesful.
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THE TALE OF A SHIPWRECK
James Norman Hall
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1934.
Hardcover, dustjackt, 164 pages, illustrations.
Account of the author's shipwreck on the way to Pitcairn
Island from his home in Tahiti in 1933..The Author draws parallels between
his shipwreck and that of the "Mutiny on the Bounty", which he co-wrote. |
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THE
WRECK OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX.
A Narrative Account by Owen
Chase, First Mate.
Edited with prologue and
epilogue, by Iola Haverstick and Betty Shepard.
Modern English edition published
1968, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
Edition shown published
by Constable Young Books Ltd, London.
Owen Chase's account of
the wreck of the Essex was irst published in new York City in 8121 under
the title Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck
of the Whale-Ship Essex.
The modern edition is rerpinted
through the courtesy of the Rare Book Division of the New York Public Library.
A recent television documentary
The True Story of Moby Dick was shown on Australian ABC television in October
2002, based on the wreck of the Essex. Superbly made, it gave the impression
that this was the basis for Herman Melville's classic tale of th hunt for
a huge whale that succeeds in sinking its adversary. Whatever, the documentary
was excellent, and the book brilliant. |
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WRECKED
AMONG CANNIBALS IN THE FIJIS. A NARRATIVE OF SHIPWRECK & ADVENTURE
IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
William Endicott, Third
Mate of the Ship Glide, with Notes by Lawrence Waters Jenkins.
Published 1923 by the Marine
Research Society, Salem, USA.
Possibly 76 pages, frontis.,
11 plates. |
