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Features: Oregon's sea lion cave; the topsy-turvy world of capillary waves; Ciguatera - Scourge of seafood lovers; Aggressive behavior in reef corals - a stragegy for survival?; Dredging up old myths; Postal coup for Palau; Antifreeze in polar fishes; Red abalone - the treasure off California's north coast. Covers taped together else a sound copy. Book
Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
Book shows only very slight use/very light shelfwear only. Interior/text is clean and unmarked in any way. 251 pages. Graphs, charts, tables, maps.
Features: Rabaul in the Fall - Search for the Reef Coral - Lithactinia novahibernia; Seven Passes - from Gilgit to Katmandu; A non-event of History - Laperouse in the Pacific; Searching Marmara for Ancient Shipwrecks; Searching for Medicines in the Vanishing Amazon; In the Hoofprints of Ghengis Khan. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cueva Cheve - a trilogy of Recent Deep Cave Discoveries; Coral Sea Reef Sharks; Searching for the King Nautilus in the Admiralty Islands, PNG; The Literary Contributions of Ernest Ingersoll. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Photos and illustrations include: With Roberts to the Gold Reef City (Johannesburg), Swaziland native execution, General Ian Hamilton, The Queen's Birthday Naval Parade at Portsmouth, Photo of Group of Boer Commanders, Charlseton Tunnel Entrance, Cronje in Retirement, Arrival of Boer Prisoners, Relief in Sight (centerfold), The First Automobile Race in England (photo), and more. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
104 pages. Features: Many gorgeous fashion ads; Nice color ad for the Zodiac SST Astrographic watch; Amazing one-page color-photo ad for Johnny Carson Apparel feature man in red (yes, red) jacket and pants!; One-page photo ad for Texfi features Gary Thorpe, Vice-President of Johnny Carson Apparel; Funky one-page color photo ad for Hggar's pants features three jaunty mustachioed gents; Fantastic one-page ad by the Village Voice features large photo of Richard Nixon look-alike in regal attire flashing his V for victory hand signals beneath the caption "Be Prepared"; Nice Omega watch ad; The Joe Alsop Story - feature article on this Washington columnist; In Anguilla it's the Spirit of '71 - St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla; The Little Priest Who Stands Up to Brazil's Generals - Dom Helder Camara, the Archbishop of Recife; The Return of Charles Lindbergh - at 69 he ends a quarter-century of silence to champion conservation; Expatriate Chess on the Other Side of the Wall - article with photos of Stefan Heym, Erich Honecker, Hilde Eisler and John Peet; Save the Children Federation ad features gaunt, haunting face of child Van Ky; Nice color-photo ad for Seiko watches; Foster Parents Plan ad features photo of poor Korean child Son Yoon Ja; Vintage Westclox ad features clock radio; 'Soft, Clinging - and Pretty' fashion photos; Nice color-photo ad for three varieties of Carlsberg beer; Photos of architectural design of a city co-op unit by Larry Durham and Barbara Greene of GKR, Inc.; and more. Tiny ink stamp atop page 59. Average wear. Minor markings to front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
280 pages. Lots of autographs and written comments. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful Pacifica yearbook. Book
72 p. : col. ill., 1 col. map ; 22 x 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, fading to spine, no tears. 313 pages with b&w photos, many mechanical drawings/ illustrations. Sections include: Free the galley slave, Spars, Build your own bulwarks, Tools and spares, Cruising drag free, Sailor's emergency abandon ship kit, Rudders for cruising, Plumbing ideas, Reef, don't buy, Mechanical pumps for bilge or fire, Truth about windvanes, A near-fatal bit of carelessness, Guns, pirates, and theives, etc.
Features: "The Eye of Allah" - a curious story by veteran mining engineer Cassiter Wright; The Masab Kunta Mystery - A weird story from India; Amateur Lumber jacks - A glimpse of life in an Ontario timber-camp where two ex-Servicemen earn money for another year of University; Seeking Pirate Treasure - a shrewed businessman invests in a scheme to locate hidden millions; A South Sea Hair-Cut - close-ups descriptive of manners and customs and prevailing conditions in various parts of the globe - Mangaia, Cook Islands, South Pacific; Gold Galore - New Guinea (near Bulolo Airport); Money in Shell - a trophy fishing trip to the Great Barrier Reef; The Inca's Emerald - alleged to be one of the crown jewels of Peru; The Sea Gypsies of Mergui off the coast of Burma; A lump of rust - seeking a silver deposit in northern Quebec; Canadian Curiosities - some interesting relics of the Gold Rush days of the Canadian Yukon; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Terror of the Zambezi Swamps - Crocodiles Story; Dance of the Pygmies; Target Lightship - "Twixt Sea and Sand," Continued - the story of a lightshipman who helped to man the North Goodwin vessel; The Secret of the Reef - a treasure hunt on the coast of Western Australia; Riding in Rough Waters - a canoeist in Britain's Backwaters; Short Cut - a Sierra Leone Railroad Tale; Sutty of the Railroad - a tale from the Kootenays in British Columbia; Sons of the Snake - the bushmen of Southwest Africa; Tin-Tacks - the author and his wife are captured by Japanese Pirates; The Rogue Male of Kazimvimba - an elephant adventure; Australia's Lonely People - Lighthousemen; Bypaths to Adventure - the third instalment of the gripping story of world traveller; and more. Average wear. Price adjusted in ink upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
282p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition chipped d.j. fair
VG. no dj. no inscriptions. lovely clean copy. Coloured frontispiece. 50 plates, mostly in colour. 1 tiny book sticker to reverse of front board. a snapshot ot its condition at a period in time before the second world war and the subsequent global deterioration of the oceans and its life... before over-fishing and mass tourism
