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The Explorer's Journal, Winter 1992
Features: Mountains of the Jinn; Volcano Magic - Photographing an Eruption at Night; Cuzco-Tuyo - The search for a lost Inca fortress; Culture and Spirituality in Majorca; Angkor Wat Conservation Debate Erupts; Stone Age Mysteries in Irian Jaya, Part II - the Yeineri Rock Quarries; The Sea's Last Refuge; Explorer Earns Honor from Nobel Institute; Celebrating a Tradition of Exploration - The Explorer's Club Space Dinner. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Winter 1993
Features: The Niche Hypothesis - a hidden symphony of Animal Sounds, the Origins of Musical Expression and the Health of Habitats; Expedition to Another World - Biosphere 2 Crew Completes Mission One; The JASON Project - student participation in Sea Exploration; Off the Beaten Track - a doctor visits Yap Island; Youth in Exploration - M. Lane Olvey, SM '92, Atlanta Chapter; Kamchatka - restless land of Volcanoes; Arctic Ice Rescue - 1993. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Winter 1994/1995
Features: Cruising across the Arctic Ocean; Mapping the North - Who Was Really Where When?; The Last Resort - Cannibalism in the Arctic; Plying the Northwest Passage - The First Single-Season Traverse by Yacht; Plants of the Arctic Tundra; Capturing the North - The Work of Claire Fejes. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Winter 1995/1996
Features: On Wildlife - Elephant Stories; Footprints from the Past - Conservation Efforts at Laetoli, Tanzania; A Quest for Human Origins; Sacred Ceremonies - African Rites of Passage; Exploring the Giza Plateau; KV 5 - The Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II; The Spirit of Exploration photo contest. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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The Explorer's Journal, Winter 1996/1997
Features: On Wildlife - Talking to the animals; Mount Wilson Reborn - a new era dawns for "America's Observatory"; Nomads of the High Plateau; The Case of the Caverna da Pedra Pintada - Rewriting South America's Ancient History; Roof of the Americas Expedition - Challenging Britain's Best. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Forestry Chronicle - December 1952
122 pages plus index and vintage advertisements. Features: Trends in North American Forestry, North American Forestry - a Summation; Good Logging Practices increase Forest Yield; Effect of Recent Pulp and Paper Developments in B.C.; Interpreting Forestry to the Layman; The Correlation of Silvicultural Systems and Wildlife Management; a Technique for Determining the Year of the Outside Ring of Dead Trees; and more. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, December 1933
80 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Contents: Ruwenzori - Flights and further exploration, by Dr. Noel Humphreys; Changes in Land Utilization in the South-West of the London Basin, 1840-1932; The Agrarian Contribution to Surveying in England; Woutneel's Map of the British Isles, 1603; Watkins' Kayak. Fold-out map of 'Ruwenzori - illustrating the expeditions of Dr. Noel Humphreys, 1932'. Average wear. Binding intact. Ink stamp to front cover and several pages. Library bar code on first page of advertisements. Covers beginning to loosen from textblock. A worthy copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, February 1928
96 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima - Surveyed by the Expedition to the Brazilian Guayana from August 1924 to June 1925, by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice; Gravity Survey by Submarine via Panama to Java; Flights North of Point Barrow - an extract from the report on the Detroit News-Wilkins Expedition of 1927 ; Notes on Arctic Flying - communicated to the society by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Recent Sheets of the One-in-a-Million Map of he American Geographical Society; Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso; Monumenta Cartographica - Review. Foldout map inside back cover entitled "Survey of the Lower Rio Negro and the Rio Branco between Manaos and Vista Alegre". University library bar code on first advertising page, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Small piece missing from lower corner of back cover. A sound copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, February 1934
95 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Fold-out map entitled "Doubly Equidistant Projection of the Sphere". Features: The Somali Coasts; Plotting the Vertical Photographs of the Second Mount Everest Flight; Archaeological Reconnaissances in Southern Persia; The John Murray Expedition to the Indian Ocean; The Sixth and Seventh Thule Expeditions of Knud; An Oblique Cylindrical Equal-Area Map. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements. Ink stamp to front cover and several pages. Average wear. One inch opening to fore-edge of front cover. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, January 1925
87 pages + viii pages of advertisements. Large fold-out map of Onitsha Province, Nigeria affixed inside back cover. Articles include: The Fourth Centenary of the Death of Vasco da Gama; Physiological Difficulties in the Ascent of Mount Everest; The People of the Aures Massif; Notes on the Ibo Country, Southern Nigeria; The Japanese Earthquake of 1 September 1923; The Mount Everest Film of 1924; Two Ancient Monuments in Southern Kurdistan (including two pages of black and white photographic plates); Memorial to Mungo Park and Richard Lander; Notes on the Ross Sea. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, LXXXIII 4. - April 1934
Pages viii + 256-352. Two fold-out maps at back: Rhodesia - Congo Boundary, Peake, Libyan Desert - Routes of Capt. Orde Wingate, 1933 and previous explorers. Map of The Old and New Rhodesia-Congo Boundaries near Elisabethville at page 266. Features: Douglas Freshfield, 1845-1934, by Dr. T.G. Longstaff; Northern Rhodesia-Belgian Congo Boundary - with fourteen black and white photos, by Lieut.-Colonel E.R. L. Peake; In Search of Zerzura - with six black and white photos, by Lieutenant Orde Wingate; Saxton's Survey of Northern England, by Gordon Manley; The First Sighting of Australia by the English, by Ida Lee; Moving Swamps in Ceylon - with two black and white photos, by W.G. Adam; The Carte Du Monde Au Millionieme, by Colonel Sir Charles Close; Obituary of Francis Henry Hill Guillemard; and more. Only external mark is a library stamp upon front cover. Similar stamps to back of fold-out Rhodesia map, upon photo at page 286, atop pages 295 and 311, and upon photo at page 322, Small bar code sticker atop page i. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A quality copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, March 1934
78 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Assam Border of Tibet; Homesteading in North-West Canada (in the Peace River Block); Survey in Johore; The Site of the City of Kalar in Kalar Dasht; The Grand Teton, Wyoming; The Kukanga Swamps; The Earthquake-Series of Ito (Japan); The Return of the Lively in 1831; The Este Map. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements. Ink stamp to front cover and several pages. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, May 1933
96 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Fold out map inside back cover entitled "South Haven Peninsula - Studland Heath, To Illustrate the Paper by C. Driver". Features: The Blosseville Coast of East Greenland, by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen; The Physiography of South Haven Peninsula, Studland Heath, Dorset; Observations on Certain Antarctic Icebergs, by J.M. Wordie and Stanley Kemp - photo plates of icebergs with different colours; Frederik Hendrik Island; The New Road Map of Great Britain; The Mount Everest Expedition; Photographic Surveys - Review. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Geographical Journal, November 1933
95 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Oxford University Expedition to Sarawak, 1932; The Japanese South Polar Expedition of 1911-1912; The Administration of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; A Roman Bridge in the Fens; Geodesy and Geophysics at Lisbon; The Empty Quarter of Arabia; Air Survey by Multiple Lens Cameras. University library bar code upon first page of advertisements, otherwise unmarked with average wear. One-inch chip hanging from backstrip. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, April 13th, 1918, No. 2524, Vol. XCVII *Revolution in Russia*
32 pages plus 4-page advertising cover. Cover photo of large new WWI artillery piece being readied for firing. Features: The Way of the War; The Great German Offensive - photos; What the German Invasion means for France - photos; Our artillery in the Great Offensive - photos; With the American Army in the Field - by Henri Bazin; Bombing London - the story of a Hun (conclusion of the story begun in the previous issue) - Karl Lowenstein; Anarcy in Russia -illustrations by Russian artist Mr. Wladimiroff; Centerfold illustrations under the heading "The Rival Armed Forces of Russia - the real army in dissolution, the red army in revolution; The spread of Uric Acid - how to correct the gouty habit; Photos of women at work in the Humber (armaments) Works; ads for the following automotove manufacturers: Maxwell, Humber, Lanchester, Arrol-Johnston; Buick. Average wear. Bindint intact. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
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The Japan Christian Quarterly - Winter 1968
71 Pages. Features: Guest Editorial from Kanzo Uchimura's English Journal; A New Year Garland - a collection of verses on Japan; The Meiji Centennial; Cigarette Brands and Japanese History; William Axling and the War Years (part 2); Thoughts on the Missionary and the Japanese Church; Hither, Whither the F.C.M.; Studying Luther in Japan; The Church and the World; Japanese Views on T.S. Eliot; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1995
Articles: Building a Bigger Stick - The Construction of the Tribal Class Destroyers in Canada, 1940-1948; The 'Baltic' Goes to Washington - Lobbying for a Congressional Steamship Subsidy, 1952; Failure at Sea - Wolf Pack Operations in the North Atlantic, 10 February - 22 March 1944; The Convoy, the Grain, and their influence on the French Revolution; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1995
Articles: The Names of Nova Scotian Fishing Boats; British Squadrons in North American Waters, 1783-1793; The Sale of the Century - British North American Sailing Ships, the Liverpool Market and Vessel Prices in 1854; Canada's 1994 International Fisheries Actions; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: July 1995
Articles: The North Pacific Campaign in Perspective; The Origins of British Whaling - Pre-1750 English and Scottish Involvement in the Northern Whale Fishery; We Have Missed Another Great Opportunity - G.G. McGeer, Alaska, and the Politics of Failed Advocacy; plus numerous book reviews. Three book reviews circled in Table of Contents else clean with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1995: The Saladin Trial
Articles: The Saladin Trial - A Last Hurrah for Admiralty Sessions; Hardly Heroes - Canadian Merchant Seamen and the International Convoy System, 1939-1945; The Origin and Growth of the Canadian Customs Preventive Service Fleet in tyhe Maritime Provinces and Eastern Quebec, 1892-1932; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1996
Articles: The Challenge of Navigation to Hydrography on the British Columbia Coast, 1850-1930; Prisoners of War and British Port Communities, 1793-1815; A Private War in the Caribbean - Nova Scotia Privateering, 1793-1805; Labour and the Unions in Wartime Essential Industry - Shipyard workers in British Columbia, 1939-1945; Port Cities in the French Wars - The Responses of Merchants in Bordeaux, Hamburg and Livorno to Napoleon's Continental Blockade, 1806-1813; plus several book reviews. Bit of high-lighting to table of contents else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: July 1996
Articles: Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. - The Rise and Demise of Vancouver's Biggest Shipyard; The Multidisciplinary Rediscovery and tracking of 'The Great Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Hurricane of September 1775; Avoidable Loss - The Saga of the Blucher; Seamen Ashore - Port Vistas of Late Nineteenth-Century Finnish Sailors; plus book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1996
Articles: The Lost the Smell - The Canadian Steam Merchant Marine, 1853-1903; Managing Change - The Organisation of Port Authorities at the turn of the Twentieth Century; Shipwrecks, Collisions and Accidents in St. Lawrence/Great Lakes Waterway, 1848-1900; plus a letter re: The Tancook Schooners and book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1996
Articles: Adventures in the Sack Trade - London Merchants in the Canada and Newfoundland Trades, 1627-1648; The Battle for Convoy UC-1, 23-27 February 1943; Not More Ports, Better Ports - The Development of British Ports since 1945; Keeping the Local Economy Afloat - Canadian Pacific Navigation and Shipowning in Victoria, 1883-1901; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1997
Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1997
Articles: The First Generation of Marine Engineers in Central Canadian Steamers, 1809-1837; Spencer Baird and the Scientific Investigation of the Northwest Atlantic, 1871-1887; The Battle for Convoy ONS-154, 26-31 December 1942; Maritime Strength and the British Economy, 1840-1850; plus several book reviews. One item high-lighted in Table of Contents else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: July 1997
Articles: The Advisory Committee on Trade Questions in Time of War; British Marine Industry and the Diesel Engine; Management and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Ports; The Development of Strategic Concepts and Shipbuilding Programmes for the Soviet Navy, 1922-1953 - Stalin's Battleships and Battlecruisers; plus several book reviews. One article high-lighted in Table of Contents, else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1997
Articles: The Impact of German Technology on the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 19442-1943; The Seamen's Union, the National Maritime Board and Firemen - Labour management in the British Mercantile Marine; The Defence of Alaska Must Remain a Primary Concern of the United States - Canada and the North Pacific, May-June 1942; Management of the Port of Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies, during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Government and Port Administration in Japan in the aftermath of the Port and Harbour Law of 1950; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1998
Articles: The Fortunes of War - Commercial Warfare and Maritime Risk in the War of 1812; Safe Home in Port? - Shipping Safety within the Port of Liverpool; The Decline of British Whaling in Arctic Canada, 1820-1850 - a case study of Newcastle upon Tyne; Letters from Halifax - Reliving the Halifax Explosion Through the Eyes of My Grandfather, a Sailor in the Royal Canadian Navy; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: July 1998 - Wreck of the Troopship 'Commerce'
Articles: The Master's Measure - Remunerative Patterns for Hudson's Bay Company Captains, 1726-1736; Politics, Technology and Policy-Making, 1859-1865 - Palmerston, Gladstone and the Management of the Ironclad Naval Race; This Sad and Melancholy Catastrophe - Port Maitland, Ontario and the Wreck of the Troopship 'Commerce', 6 May 1850; A Dundee Ship in Canada's Arctic - SS Diana and William Wakeham's Expedition of 1897; The Historical Experience of Scaled-Down Nineteenth Century Drydock Technology; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1998
Articles: Women Ashore - The Contribution of WAVES to US Naval Science and Technology in World War II; Privateer Entrepot - Commercial Militarization in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 1793-1805; Mahan's 'Life of Nelson'; Croissance Portuaire et Urbanisation - Les Cas D'Anvers (XIXe Siecle); plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1998
Articles: The Ports of Halifax and Saint John and the American Civil War; The Floating Factory - Dominant Designs and Technological Development of Twentieth-Century Whaling Factory Ships; A Lonely Ambassador - HMCS Uganda and the War in the Pacific; Sailor as Entrepreneurs in a Great Lakes Maritime Village; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1999
Articles: You Don't Make a Torpedo Gunner Out of a Drunkard - Agnes Weston, Temperance, and the British Navy; Business for Ships is Miserable Dull - A New Brunswick Mariner Confronts the Waning Days of Sail; The Battle for Convoy HG-75, 22-29 October 1941; Tyranny of the Lash? - Punishment in the Royal Navy during the American War, 1776-1783; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1999 - Mexican Navy 1846-1848
Articles: Too Few Ships, Too Few Guns, and Not Enough Money - The Mexican Navy, 1846-1848; Computer Simulations of Ancient Voyaging; Arctic Focus - the Royal Canadian Navy in Arctic Waters, 1946-1949; Muster Table for the Royal Navy's Establishment on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812; The Company of Women; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1999
Articles: Women and Seamen Don't Mix - VD in Canada's Merchant Navy, 1943-1945; Home Ports and Destinations - English Shipping in the Baltic Trade, 1536-1547; The Living Conditions onboard UK Distant-Water Trawlers, 1945-1970; This Fraudulent Trade - Confederate Blockade-Running from Halifax During the American Civil War; plus several Book Reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - October 1993
Features: The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and Operation Torch, 1942-1943; The Battle of Convoy BX-141; The 1834 Cruise of HMS Alligator - The Bible and the Flag; The Liberation of Oslo and Copenhagen - A Midshipman's Memoir; Numerous book reviews; Letter re: Pride of Baltimore - The Story of the Baltimore Clippers, 1800-1990. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - July 1993
Articles: Gerald E. Panting and the Development of Maritime History in Canada; Showing the Flag - Hugh Palliser in Western Newfoundland; Newfoundland Spring Sealing Disasters to 1914; A Bridge Across the Water - Liverpool Shipbrokers and the Transfer of Eastern Canadian Sailing Vessels, 1855-1880; The Shipping Industry in British Columbia from 1867 to 1914; plus numerous book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - April 1993
Articles: Commercial Shipping on the Northern Sea Route; Petty Officer First Class E. Leslie Goodwin - A Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer in World War I; We'll get our own - Canada and the Oil Shipping Crisis of 1942; plus part of a Canadian Maritime Bibliography by Gerald E. Panting and numerous book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - January 1993
Articles: The Structure of English Wooden Ships - William Sutherland's Ship Circa 1710; An Explosive Story - the rise and fall of the common depth charge; part of Gerald E. Panting's Canadian Maritime Bibliography; plus numerous book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - October 1992
Articles: The Defence Supply Naval Shipbuilding Panel, 1955-1965; A Dialogue for the Sea, by Wayne Norman; Les Peches canadiennes au XIXe siecle; Part of Gerald E. Panting's Canadian Maritime Bibliography; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - April 1992
Articles: Convoy O.N. 127 and the loss of the HMCS Ottawa, 13 September 1942 - a personal reminiscence; Captain T.C. Pullen, RCN - Polar Navigator; Captain T.C. Pullen, RCN - An Arctic Bibliography; Canadian Maritime Bibliography, compiled by Lewis R. Fischer, M. Stephen Salmon, and Garth S. Wilson; plus several book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - January 1992
Articles: C.C. Ballantyne and the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, 1917-1921; Historic Watercraft and Canada's Maritime Heritage; Canadian Maritime Bibliography by Fischer, L.R.; Salmon, M.S. and Wison, G.S.; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - October 1994
Articles: Lieutenant William Peel, British Naval Intelligence, and the Oregon Crisis; Emergency Fleet Corporation Ship Construction in World War I in the Pacific Northwest; Cruising the Labrador, or LORAN in 1941-42 - A Memoir; a letter re: George Vancouver; plus several book reviews. Unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - July 1994
Articles: Seas No Mariner Has Sailed - Giovanni Verrazano; Newfoundland Sealing Strikes, 1830-1914; Early Nineteenth-Century Sealing on the Falkland Islands - Attempts to Develop a Regulated Industry; Review Essay - New Dirctions in European-American Migration; plus several book reviews. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - April 1994
Articles: The Concept of the Louisbourg Underwater Museum; The Nova Scotia Small Craft Survey; Maritime Museums and Material Culture Studies; Computer Database Applications in Maritime History; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - January 1994
Articles: Toronto Harbour and the Defence of the Great Lakes Region, 1783-1870; Dodging in the Bight, a good place for a Whale - Environmental Factors Affecting Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Whaling in Davis Strait; Reassessing the Dreadnought Crisis of 1909 and the Origins of the Royal Canadian Navy; The Last Murmansk Convoys, 11 March - 30 May, 1945; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner: Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society - July 1992
Articles: Instruments of Security - The Royal Canadian Navy's Procurement of the Tribal-Class Destroyers, 1938-1943; Robert Steele and Company - Shipbuilders of Greenock; Hell Boats of the RCN - The Canadian Navy and the Motor Torpedo Boat, 1936-1941; plus part of Gerald E. Panting's Canadian Maritime Bibliography and several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Signalman's Journal, October 1945
Pages 337-376. Black and white photos. Features: Radar Proved Miracle Development of WWII; Radio in Freight Yard Service on the B.&O.; Survey of Union Members' Interest in Publications; Trades and Labor Congress Meeting; The Atomic Bomb is no Secret - Decisive discovery which led to the building of the atomic bomb was made by Germans in 1938 - with photos, by Dr. Edward U. Condon; Signal Changes on Milwaukee, Rock Island and Kansas City Southern near Kansas City, Mo.; The Fall and Rise of Manila - after more than three years of Japanese rule little was left of the once great "Fool's Paradise" - with photos, by E.H. Jacoby; Head-end collision on the Missouri Pacific; and more. Average wear. Fold-mark down middle. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Standard, 19 April 1947 - Weekly Montreal Pictorial Newspaper
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Photo-illustrated article on Venezuela and its oil industry; Large photo of "Bustle Beauty" Marilyn Munroe in bustled bikini, wearing outrageous platform shoes; Large colour full-page ad for Waterman's pens; Student Strike at Toronto's Malvern Collegiate after Principal Lorne H. Clarke Dismissed - article with three great pages of photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Tooke shirts; Two amazing pages of photos and text entitled "Troubled Palestine" - Lifting of Martial Law after 15 days brings no end to Terrorist Incidents - Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem; 104th Running of the Grand National - Caughoo, an unknown 100-1 long shot wins; Readers' Letters; We Need to Speed Exports, by Gerald Waring; Bellingham, Washington is fast becoming the centre of entertainment for BC'ers - photo with article; Do Women love Weaklings?; Leonard (Len) Wookey of Callander, Ontario - Successor to the Dionne Quints- photos and article; Some Day - short story by Beth Balcom; What's Doing on Mars? - Sydney Cooper on Rocket Travel; Spanish Maquis - 100,000 strong, they strike at Franco's government - photos and article; Bell the Cat, by Gregory Clark; Come Spring - short story by Eric Cameron; 20-page Colour Comic Section; He Who Whispers, fiction by John Dickson Carr; Devil-Charming Ritual in Vancouver; Bootleg Fur - contraband fox pelts in Ontario; Cancer research at the newly-organized National Cancer Institute of Canada; Pigeon Timber Company's "luxurious" lumber camps in Ontario's Black Sturgeon area north of Lake Superior; Alberta deer being relocated to preserve farmers' crops; Earthquake Man - Edward Mantle of Hamilton; Van Treel and an international Dope Ring Roundup on the West Coast; Sports news; Super colour full-page ad for Northern Electric radios; Photos of romantic hats; Colour ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone System; Photo-illustrated article on fencing in Canada; Back page colour ad for Lux soap featuring great photo of Betty Grable; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Book
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The Standard, 22 March 1947 - Weekly Montreal Pictorial Newspaper
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Fascinating photos and text present harsh life behind bars for Netherlands black market criminals; Beautiful large photo of Penny Edwards - discovered for movies because of her 'lovely legs'; Colour ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee; Armadillos on Texas Farm turned into lampshades by Mr. Apelt; King of Lumberjacks - Benoit Turcotte averages 3.5 cords a day - fantastic photos and text *Will be of considerable interest to anyone who has marvelled at William Kurelek's book "Lumberjack"; Icebreaker - opening of Stl Lawrence ship channel marks the first coming of spring - with photos of icebreaker the N.B. McLean at work in the St. Lawrence; Experiment in Socialism - A.J. Cummings reviews Labor's 20 months of office in London; Bulls and Banderilleros - Mexico ads new color to the traditional Spanish sport of bullfighting - photo and article; NHL Hockey Playoffs Are Here Again - Article and photos of (much smaller) Stanley Cup; Experts predict world mineral supplies will not last another war - major article by C. Fred Bodsworth; Big Business Comes to Ste. Marie - story by Eric Morris; Roy Thomson and Jack Kent Cooke - They Built a warehouse of radios into a gangling Canadian business empire - photo and article; Leave it to the Ladies - fiction by Gregory Clark; The Peer and the Pit-Lamp - fiction by Peter Carter-Page; A Lady to Dinner - fiction by Marsden Starkey; 20 page colour comics section; Prescription for Murder - fiction by Jane Layhew; Amazing photo of a "Snow Egg" on Plateau Mountain in northern B.C.; Pint-Size Pottery - Mrs. Trasey Bond lives near New Westminster, B.C. - photos and article; Isaac Kert creates crossword puzzles - photo and article; New Diamond Industry beginning in Montreal - Julius Gutwurcel and Hermann Good and their diamon cutting operation in the CNR's Bonaventure station - photos and article; Richard Pifer - leader of northwestern Ontario's Secession Movement - photo and article; Electronic Piano - Don L. Hings is in charge of the Vancouver Electronic Laboratories - great article and photos; Net Factory - The manufacture of fishing nets at Drummondville, Quebec - interesting article and photos; Photo of Canadian WREN Frances Conley - Canada's newest screen starlet; Randi Andersen - flew to northern Manitoba on a picture-taking assignment and stayed to become the region's most beautiful prospector - story with photo; Geophysics Expert Dr. John Tuzo Wilson; U.S. company General Analine and Film Corp. received secret patents from Hitler's scientific plotters; Fishwife Extraordinary - Margaret Chambers of Toronto manages four highly-successful fish shops; Streamline Your Bathroom - design article with illustrations; Dorothy Henzel Willis Paints Her Dreams - photo with article; Hope for the Blind - Canadian government seeks to help Canada's 14,000 blind persons; Sports News; Story and photo of "Knucker" Burns of Halifax - the Boston Bruins' number one long-distance fan; Roger Whynott of Mahone Bay, NS - Middleweight Champ - photo and article; First Canadian surgery to insert esophagus into baby at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children - illustration and story; Flying Fairies - Arthur Kirby Trains Aerial Ballets for England's Theatre Pantomimes - wonderful photos with brief write-up; Water Polo Revial in Montreal under the coaching of Jimmy Rose - write-up and photos; Barmen's School - Stan Owen and Pat Morell train 200 bartending students after 31 arid years in Toronto; Great colour ad for Horlicks Malted Milk on back page; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Unmarked. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
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