Isbn: 9780170062626 - there was a ship (9 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Near Fine. New Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition in a Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with black & white photographs. 239 pages. From the moment that Patsy Adam-Smith saw the little coastal trader ease her way out of Bass Strait and heard her crew talk of reefs, wrecks and sand shoals, she was bewitched. Determined to go to sea herself, she persuaded the owner to let her sail on the "Sheerwater" - cooking, taking a turn at the wheel and working her passage round the lovely, scattered islands of Bass Strait. She then spent 6 years on the Naracoopa and was the first woman to be granted signed Articles in Australian waters. Here she tells of her love affair with the sea and ships, with the small ketches that no longer trade around the Australian coast.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. New Edition. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 240pp, b&w photos in text. The author's story of her years at sea. Gifting else vg in dj 239 p.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good In A Like Jacket With Light Handling Wear Pp 239, Illustrated Throughout.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint. Very Good In A Like Jacket. Owners Gift Card Taped To The Fep Pp 239, Illustrated Throughout.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Jacket in Protective Sleeve. First Edition. Blue binding, silver title. 239 pages. Illustrated. Sequel to "Hear The Train Blow". A clean, tight, straight book. Jacket bright, complete, protected in a clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Chatto & Windus, 1983 . Used. Account of life aboard trading vessels in Bass Strait; seal and mutton bird industries of Furneaux Group; Tasmanian Aboriginal families; Wybalenna settlement on Flinders Island.

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condición: Near Fine. BOATING Biography Travel - First published as 2 separate v.: Moonbird people, and There was a ship. Adelaide : Rigby, 1965 and 1967. viii, 239 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 27 cm. #111025 Voyages. Bass Strait. Personal observations Tasmania. Furneaux Group. Social life Voyages and travels Ocean travel Bass Strait (Tas. and Vic.) Furneaux Islands (Tas.) -- Social life and customs Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. …

Hardcover/Hardback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Good condition, minor foxing on textblock.