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  • Arnie: Pearls and Luggers in the Torres Strait

    by Arnie Duffield, Lee Duffield ...
    This is the story of Arnie Duffield, who arrived at Thursday Island, in Torres Strait, the Northern tip of Australia, aged ten, in 1936 - beginning a life-time of adventure. His father worked on the famous sailing luggers, diving boats that harvested pearl shells and pearls for over 100 years up to 1980. Arnie with his father and brother, with their own hands would build their own flotilla of ... Read more

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  • Titanic: History in an Hour

    by Sinead Fitzgibbon ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a time of peace had such an impact.TITANIC: HISTORY IN AN HOUR is an entertaining and well researched account of the events leading up to the sinking of this ... Read more

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  • Australia's Greatest Disasters: The tragedies that have defined the nation

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  • Titanic: The Myths and Legacy of a Disaster

    by Roger Cartwright, June Cartwright ...
    On 15 April 2012, 100 years will have passed since the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic hit an iceberg and foundered in the North Atlantic with the loss of 1,503 lives. Had the disaster not occurred, what is now the best-known ship in the world would have lost the title of the largest liner within just two years. She was certainly not the fastest passenger ship of the time and can be considered a ... Read more

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  • Great Australian Mysteries

    Spine-tingling tales of disappearances, secrets, unsolved crimes and lost treasure

    by Graham Seal ...
    Australia's master storyteller Graham Seal brings to life the enigmas and puzzles behind famous unsolved crimes, long-held secrets, buried loot and strange phenomena from the bush and the city.Australia has always been a land of mysteries. Some are ancient, some are historical, and many continue to perplex us today - and will probably continue to do so tomorrow.More often than most of us would ... Read more

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  • The Architect of Kokoda

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    by Robyn Kienzle ...
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    In my humble opinion, Bert Kienzle did more than any other single man to make Australian victory possible.' Peter FitzSimons, author of KokodaIn 1942, when the Japanese had invaded Papua New Guinea and the Australian soldiers sent to hold them back thought victory was impossible, one man, Bert Kienzle, changed the course of history.This charismatic man, well known in Papua for having run gold ... Read more

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  • The Last Pearling Lugger

    by Mark Dodd ...
    Mark Dodd arrived in Broome in 1978 as a 20-year-old looking for adventure, after working his way across northern Australia. There he fell in with the crew of the fabled DMcD, one of the last of the old wooden pearling luggers that still worked the Kimberley coast diving for pearl shell. He came aboard as a deckhand before graduating to become one of the pearl shell divers. He dived for four ... Read more

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  • Dead Men's Silver

    The Story of Australia's Greatest Shipwreck Hunter

    by Hugh Edwards ...
    The story of more than sixty years of diving adventures, through starkly contrasting locations and extraordinary advances in technology. From boyhood dreamer to master treasure hunter, Hugh Edwards documents his life through tales of shipwreck and salvage.the story of more than sixty years of diving adventures including his significant find of the Batavia, Hugh Edwards documents his life through ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Sank Titanic

    The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens

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  • Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms

    by Dan Soucoup ...
    A fascinating exploration of the most dramatic storms along Canada's Atlantic coast, from 1745's Grand Armada Tragedy to the 2017 Ice Storm.Over the centuries, Canada's Atlantic coast has been battered by hurricanes and winter blizzards, struck by tornadoes, devastated by floods, and even hit by terrifying tsunamis. Now Dan Soucoup, a historian of Canada's Maritime Provinces, explores the region's ... Read more

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  • The Lighthouse

    The Mystery of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers

    by Keith McCloskey ...
    On 26 December 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with a relief lighthouseman and fresh provisions. The lighthouse had been in operation for a year, but it had been noted that no light had been seen from Eilean Mor for several days. The relief keeper, Joseph Moore, found the lighthouse to be completely deserted, and a subsequent search of the island failed ... Read more

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