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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Cape Horners Australia Incorporated written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cape Horners - Australia
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Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Cape Horners Australia written by Cape Horners - Australia and published by . This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records of the Cape Horners - Australia consisting of correspondence, congress papers, papers collected for a history and chapters for a book, photographs of the 'Killoran' and the 'Passat', newspaper cuttings, membership list and papers of Tom Lindqvist.
Author : International Association of Cape Horners, Australia, Inc
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (899 download)
Download or read book International Association of Cape Horners written by International Association of Cape Horners, Australia, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records of the International Association of Cape Horners, Australia, Inc., comprising programme, list of participants, brochures, newsletters, special wine labels and newspaper cuttings from the 35th Congress held in Adelaide.
Author : Adrian Flanagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472912543
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Cape Horners' Club written by Adrian Flanagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water and weather patterns at the bottom of the world and funnels them into a maritime superhighway a mere 500 miles wide, building massive seas and accelerating wind speeds to hurricane strength. Currents rip at rates that defeat powerful engines. These legendarily treacherous conditions were enough to secure Cape Horn's reputation as the ultimate in ocean violence; the supreme test of sailors and ships. It is the oceanic equivalent of the climbers' Everest, and the challenge to some became irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitters with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier and Chay Blyth. This book recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the people who've taken it on and made it round – the Cape Horners' Club. From the first recorded single-hander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterwards and his body never found), we follow these very different protagonists as they pursue the ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is a history of the Cape, from its discovery to its use as a trading corridor until the opening of the Panama Canal, to its more recent role as a pure challenge for the best yachtsmen and yachtswomen in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact, but the pressure for ever-faster times has never been greater.
Author : Yves Le Scal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Days of the Cape Horners written by Yves Le Scal and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Stark
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786740051
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Last Time Around Cape Horn written by William F. Stark and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.
Author : Spencer Apollonio
Publisher : Potomac Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Last of the Cape Horners written by Spencer Apollonio and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers a full range of exciting, dangerous, and everyday shipboard experiences
Author : Alan Villiers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Set of the Sails written by Alan Villiers and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Woods
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642281487
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Australia's Oral History Collections written by Martin Woods and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides electronic access to oral history endeavour in Australia. The database allows you to search within tens of thousands of hours of oral recordings.
Author : David Pyle
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 9780340105108
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Australia the Hard Way written by David Pyle and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Jackson
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486300146
Total Pages : 981 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Taxonomy of Australian Mammals written by Stephen Jackson and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxonomy of Australian Mammals utilises the latest morphometric and genetic research to develop the most up to date and comprehensive revision of the taxonomy of Australian mammals undertaken to date. It proposes significant changes to the higher ranks of a number of groups and recognises several genera and species that have only very recently been identified as distinct. This easy to use reference also includes a complete listing of all species, subspecies and synonyms for all of Australia’s mammals, both native and introduced as well as terrestrial and marine. This book lays a foundation for future taxonomic work and identifies areas where taxonomic studies should be targeted, not only at the species and subspecies level but also broader phylogenetic relationships. This work will be an essential reference for students, scientists, wildlife managers and those interested in the science of taxonomy.
Author : David Horner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521765870
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Australia and the New World Order written by David Horner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive study of Australia's role in the peace enforcement operations that developed at the end of the Cold War.
Author : William Armstrong Fairburn
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Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Merchant Sail written by William Armstrong Fairburn and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Cogger
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486309704
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia written by Harold Cogger and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia is a complete guide to Australia’s rich and varied herpetofauna, including frogs, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, lizards and snakes. For each of the 1218 species there is a description of its appearance, distribution and habits. These descriptions are also accompanied by distribution maps and, in many cases, one of the book's more than 1000 colour photographs of living animals. The book also includes 130 simple-to-use dichotomous keys, accompanied by hundreds of explanatory drawings, that in most cases allow a specimen in hand to be identified. In addition, it has a comprehensive list of scientific references for those wishing to conduct more in-depth research, an extensive glossary, and basic guides to the collection, preservation and captive care of specimens. This classic work was originally published in 1975. The updated seventh edition contains a new Appendix that discusses recent changes and lists over 80 new or resurrected species and genera that have been added to the Australian frog and reptile fauna since the 2014 edition.
Author : Peter J. Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494848
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Architect of Victory written by Peter J. Dean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman is one of the most important, yet relatively unknown officers in the history of the Australian Army. Despite his reputedly caustic personality and noted conflicts with some senior officers, Berryman was crucial to Australia's success during the Second World War. But did the man known as 'Berry the Bastard' deserve his reputation? Bold, calculating and talented, Berryman was at the forefront of operations that led to the defeat of the Japanese, and his operational planning secured Australia's victories at Bardia, Tobruk and in New Guinea during the Pacific War. With access to rare private papers, Peter Dean charts Berryman's special relationships with senior US and Australian officers such as MacArthur, Chamberlin, Blamey, Lavarack and Morshead, and explains why the man poised to become the next Chief of General Staff would never fulfil his ambition.
Author : Patrick Ahern
Publisher : Patrick Ahern
ISBN 13 : 0980515505
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Full Sail Beyond the Three Capes written by Patrick Ahern and published by Patrick Ahern. This book was released on 2008 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Author : Nicola Mitchell
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 148630947X
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017 written by Nicola Mitchell and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizards and snakes (squamate reptiles) are the most diverse vertebrate group in Australia, with approximately 1000 described species, representing about 10% of the global squamate diversity. Squamates are a vital part of the Australian ecosystem, but their conservation has been hindered by a lack of knowledge of their diversity, distribution, biology and key threats. The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017 provides the first comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of Australian squamates in 25 years. Conservation assessments are provided for 986 species of Australian lizards and snakes (including sea snakes). Over the past 25 years there has been a substantial increase in the number of species and families recognised within Australia. There has also been an increase in the range and magnitude of threatening processes with the potential to impact squamates. This has resulted in an increase in the proportion of the Australian squamate fauna that is considered Threatened. Notably over this period, the first known extinction (post-European settlement) of an Australian reptile species occurred – an indication of the increasingly urgent need for better knowledge and management of this fauna. Six key recommendations are presented to improve the conservation management and plight of Australian squamates. This Action Plan represents an essential resource for research scientists, conservation biologists, conservation managers, environmental consultants, policy makers from Commonwealth and State/Territory governments, and the herpetological community.
