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  • The Fateful Voyage of the St Jean Baptiste

    by John Dunmore ...
    A True Account of M. de Surville's Expedition to NZ and the Unknown South Seas 1769-70In 1769, 20 years before the French Revolution, two famous navigators passed within 120 kms of each other off the coast of New Zealand; the first was Captain James Cook in command of the Endeavour; the other was French East India Company Captain Jean de Surville in the St Jean Baptiste.French-Pacific historian ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Non-Fiction

    Writing, #1

    by John Dunmore, Patricia Dunmore ...
    Series Book 1 - Writing
    With Special Emphasis on Historical NarrativesAn up-to-date guide for people embarking on their first journey into recording Aotearoa New Zealand's past. In these pages, writers will find simple, practical advice on all aspects of researching, writing, and publishing local histories, memoirs, family histories, diaries, etc. It also includes details on sourcing suitable illustrations.An essential ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monsieur Baret

    by John Dunmore ...
    This is the story of an ordinary Frenchwoman of extraordinary courage and determination, who braved everything in order to stay at the side of her lover – even the perils of life aboard an 18th century French navy ship. John Dunmore, a world authority on French naval history, relates with humour and compassion the life of a small-town girl who became the first woman of any race to circumnavigate ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chasing a Dream

    The Exploration of the Imaginary Pacific

    by John Dunmore ...
    Early Europeans may have believed the world was flat, but by the Middle Ages there was widespread acceptance that it was, in fact, a globe. What remained a mystery, however, was what lay on the "other side". Some believed it was a source of riches, an ocean harbouring countries where gold and unimaginable riches could be found, including islands from which King Solomon had obtained his wealth. In ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scoundrels & Eccentrics of the Pacific

    by John Dunmore ...
    Scoundrels & Eccentrics of the Pacific is a new title delving into the adventurers who once made the great Pacific their playground – from likeable dreamers to outright conmen, slavers and pirates, and even one self-titled Queen Emma. There's the extraordinary tale of James Proctor who used his wooden leg to trick natives in coming aboard his ship so he could spirit them away as slaves; or French ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scoundrels & Eccentrics of the Pacific

    by John Dunmore ...
    Scoundrels & Eccentrics of the Pacific is a new title delving into the adventurers who once made the great Pacific their playground – from likeable dreamers to outright conmen, slavers and pirates, and even one self-titled Queen Emma. There's the extraordinary tale of James Proctor who used his wooden leg to trick natives in coming aboard his ship so he could spirit them away as slaves; or French ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Captain James Cook

    by Richard Hough ...
    In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. He was the linking figure between the grey specualtion of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Captain Cook

    by Vanessa Collingridge ...
    A uniquely woven story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives. Captain Cook, best known for his heroic voyages through the Pacific Ocean, is brought to life in vivid detail. We follow his humble beginnings as the son of a farm labourer, through his convention-shattering treatment of the indigenous groups he met on his travels, and then onto his final tragic voyage which ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Captain Cook

    Master of the Seas

    by Frank McLynn ...
    This "thoroughly researched and sharply opinionated" biography presents a nuanced portrait of the renowned 18th century navigator ( The Wall Street Journal).The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with bold adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent writers have viewed Cook ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pacific

    In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill

    by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios ...
    A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Black Carib Wars

    Freedom, Survival and the Making of the Garifuna

    by Christopher Taylor ...
    The Garifuna people today live all along the Caribbean littoral of Central America, from Belize, through Guatemala and Honduras down to Nicaragua, and also in some of the biggest cities of the United States. For more than two hundred years they have preserved their unique culture and language--the direct descendant of that spoken in the islands at the time of Columbus. All of them, however, trace ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Race

    The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia

    by David Hill ...
    On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, four thousand kilometres apart, were part of the same island.And so began ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD