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Mulry Ray; Great Ocean Publishers
In the Zone: Making Winning Moments Your Way of Life
Great River Books 1995. Soft Cover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight pages clean/ covers slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ several page tips creased Great River Books paperback
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: 018601 ISBN : 0915556286 9780915556281
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Aviation and Marine International - Atlantic Edition: July/August 1978 *THE 5000TH PHANTOM II*
Features: Airlines Today; F-15 Anatomy; The Israeli Lion - An outline of what will be the I.A.I. Arye (article with colour illustrations); The Phantom II Legend; Rotterdam Naval Technology Expo; The Pacific Ocean Today; Western Pacific Air Forces; 18 Navies to One Ocean; Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1941 Through November/December1942
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Many photos of the Ocean Falls mill, the plant and townsite of the Powell River mill, the Woodfibre mill, the Port Mellon mill, and Port Alice; Next Vancouver Dial Cut-Over on Saturday, April 12; Seymour's last 'Number Please' will be uttered April 12; 1886 photo of Tilley's bookstore which housed Vancouver's first telephone switchboard; photo of the Empire Building which housed Vancouver's telephone eschange from 1890 until 1907; Edward (Big Ed) William Singer passes away; Trinity operating room; Statement of Development (# of telephones in various exchanges) as at 1 January, 1941; Savings and Government Loans - article by President of the RBOC; War Bonds Appeal; Telephone operator Marion L. Davis writes of war-time Britain; Pioneer Mission Phone man John A. Catherwood passes away; Notes and photos from Eddie Esson, braving the blitz in England; Employees form credit unions; 6 samples of Canada's first telephone advertising, used in 1877 to promote Bell Telephone usage; artistic full-page war bond advert. with a Churchillian quote and silhouette, complete with cigar; Several pages of nice photos from the Courtenay/Comox region, including the Cumberland Mine; Courtenay and Comox receive new and improved phone service; All of downtown Vancouver now served by dial - multi-page article with photos; John Hough - The Comox Argus; Recycling phone books; Norman J. Dunlop retires; Many photos of Trail and vicinity; New dial unit for Victoria - text and photos; "Buck" Telephone advertisements - promoting the safety benefits of phones; Lauchie McMillan; Many great photos of Port Albernia and area, including a more heavily treed Cathedral Grove; PNE phone exhibit promotion; Peter Grant, Superintendant of switchboard construction, retires; Alan C. Irvine - new Marine Wire Chief; each issue concludes with the number of phones in each exchange; Many photos of Kamloops and area; 'Shortage of Telephone Supplies is a Wartime Problem'; Earl Squire; Fraser telphones now served by dial system - significant text and many photos; War Bond advert.; Elizabeth Teague retires as Victoria Toll Chief; 12 year growth chart of company's system with accompanying bar graph intended to show 'why forecasting is difficult'; Fascinating and substantial text and photos emphasizing conservation due to, among other things, a tin and rubber shortage due to Japanese attacks on Malaya; Photos and text of facility wartime blackout preparations; Jean Peard retires; Name of Highland office to be changed to Hastings; Photos of executives; photos of operator school; A.R.P. (Air Raid Protection?) meetings; Ship-to-shore service saves valuable log tows; Allan Wood Hunter recounts developing phone services in Venezuela; Many photos of drills to prepare for air attacks; Government puts restrictions on telephone installations; Did you use your phone during the Blackout? - article; James Cruickshank retires; Many photos of lovely young operators from across the province; Air Raid Sirens - photos and captions; Article on Norman MacDonald; William Sherry killed in Libya; Hugh D. Simpson; photo of 93' pole being escorted by policeman on motorcycle; Many ARP photos with captions; photo of tabulators at 'information'; two awesome photos from the Marine-Pacific facility; "Watch the Clock Wh Book
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Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1997
Includes the following 1997 issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: St. Paul Island; Antigua; Photography 101 - Cameras; Boat Diving; Tragic 'Northern Indiana'; Filming the Ocean Realm; Counting Lingcod; Queen Charlotte Strait; French Polynesia; Photography 101 - Macro; Tech Diving off Whitefish Point; Coastal Charter; Snorkeling with Salmon; Photography 101 - Normal Lens; Sleepless on the 'Seattle'; Caymans; Wrecks of the St. Lawrence; Techies on the 'Topline'; Photography 101 - Ambient Light; Kingston's 'Frontenac'; Hawaii and Kauai; Shipwreck Course; Divers build east coast bridge; Camouflage; Underwater Canada; Lake Huron - 'Emma E. Thompson'; Seastars - they are not fishes; Photography 101 - Lenses; The Once Mighty ' Metamora'; HMCS Saguenay - an ecosystem; Unbeatable Marshall Islands; Tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau; Sinking the Saskatchewan; Skookumchuck Narrows; Kingston, Ontario's 'Munson'; Costa Rica; Wreck of the Andalusia; Extreme Dive - stories from the Police Blotter; Cozumel; St. Lawrence River - Fleur Marie; Sanilac Shores, Lake Huron; Egmont, B.C.; 'America' shipwreck; Australia Artificial Reef - Swan. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: January/February 1993
Features: The Twig Eater - somewhere between the cartoon character and the trophy room rack lies the reality of Alces Alces... researchers and the public alike are saying the moose deserves a little respect; Big Bluestream and a Tallgrass Dream - John Morgan's vision of restoring the 'prairie ocean' is serious business indeed; The Flower Kissers - the magical union between hummingbirds and tropical blossoms; The Chaco Connection - 'there is lots of pasture, but it is bitter grass, inedible... Raising cattle will be difficult, or impossible... If only I could go back to Canada I would never come to South America again!; Machines of Illusion - computer scientists are now labouring to transcend the boundaries of time and space with virtual reality. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, December 1978
Features: Main's maiden voyage to the moon - Apollo 8 - Dec. 11-27, 1968; Return to Vilcabamba; Atlantic Ocean pollution - 'dead sea'; Chocoe Indians of Darien - as they were 47 years ago; Ammonite "Whopper" on display; General Funston's Alaskan Explorations; Sana'a - Capital City of Yemen; Sargasso Sea Expeditions - study adds new data; The 'Brendan' voyage to North America - followed medieval saga and technology. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, March 1979
Features: Bowman Island Expedition 1978 - a return to Ellesmere Island; Turtles from the age of Dinosaurs; U.S. Revenue Cutter Tahoma - pride of the Bering Sea Patrol; The Wary Bongo - escaped notice over a wide range; Iceland's Natural Energy Resources - its potential evaluated; Up North in Kenya; William Crawford Gorgas - mankind is in debt to his genius; Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion - its time has come; Ladakh Journey - a flag report; A Leopard named Harriet. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, March 1982
Features: Daniel Denison Streeter, FN 1913; Amos Burg, FN 1931; U.S. Caving Team Attains Record Depth; Searching for Aloe plants in Africa; Kansas City Museum - Osage culture exhibits; The Dog that helped win the West - Scannon, the Newfoundland dog who accompanied Lewis and Clark; Bimini Marine-Archeology Expedition - underwater formations considered artificial; Rowing across the Atlantic - Curtis and Kathleen Saville in their Excalibur; Exploration under the Arctic Ice - submarine surveyors of the polar region; First U.S. Atlantic Route Flight - William M. Masland was the navigator on the Pan American Sikorsky S-42 that made the first route survey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1937. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, March 9, 1872 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
16 pages. Contents: Cover for can; square shawl worn as a hood; Small-talk about pastry; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring bonnets, faille ribbons, flame-tinted roses, style of trimming, colored English crape, new veils, round hats, spring suits from Paris; Personal; shade for night lamp; work-bag with chenille embroidery; work-bag with chenille embroidery; evening and bridal slippers with bows; Mrs. Grey's Two Dreams, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Sayings and Doings; Nice full-page illustration "Low and High Necked Waists"; Bridal and Evening Dresses; Paris Fashions; An Ocean Picnic; Buckwheat Cakes and Buckwheat; Evening Toilette; Useful recipes; London's Heart, by B.L. Farjeon - continued; Furniture and Dress; humor. Average wear. Book
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Hong Kong Movie News, May 1976
80 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: Beautiful one-page colour photo of Fanny; Colour ad for The Condemned inside front cover; Yueh Hua and Tanny visit the Hong Kong Oceanarium - colour photos; Lovely one-page colour photo of Shih Szu; Colour photo ad for Learned Bride Thrice Fools Bride-Groom; Challenge of the Masters - colour foldout photos; Colour photos of Chen Ni and Fu Sheng; Shaolin Avengers - two pages of colour photos; Beautiful colour photos of Yen Nan-Hsi, Shih Ping-Ping, Chen Szu-Chia, and Ching Li; Nice black and white photos of Ti Lung, Betty Ting Pei, Hsi Hua Chiang, Lily Li, Li Hsiu Hsien, Hu Chih, Fanny, and Fu Sheng; Shaw stars visit Ocean park - article and photos; Black Magic - part II; Mother's Day; They Came From Within (It's Deadley); Scenes from The Web of Death; Colour ad for The Dragon Missile; Colour photo ad for Rado watches on back cover shows man in kayak; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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My Story Time, Volume 1:
72 pages. "Our goal in undertaking this project was to encourage our members to share their personal experiences with others and in doing so enjoy the fulfillment of creative writing." - from Foreward. A delightful collection of reminiscences with titles such as: The Ocean Plunger, Seven Fishermen and One Human; The Driver's Test, An English Cottage, First Mayor of Colwood Corners, and many more. Average wear. Faint bit of writing in top corner of front cover else unmarked. Book
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National Lampoon Magazine, April 1982 - Failure Issue
94 pages. Features: Build your own Orson Welles; Farming the ocean floor; Self-Destruct Magazine; Theme restaurants that failed; and more. Light cigarette odor. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
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Nature Canada Magazine - October/December 1973 *SPECIAL ISSUE - WHALES*
Features: Living Resources of the Ocean - A Canadian View; From Placentia Bay to Spitzbergen - a Naturalist aboard a North Atlantic Whaler; The Status of the World's Whales; Spellbound on the Bay of Fundy; Whale-Watching; My First Summer in the Arctic. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Scientific American, September 1969, Volume 221 Number 3 - The Ocean
Features: The Ocean; The Origin of the Oceans; The Atmosphere and the Ocean; The Continental Shelves; The Deep-Ocean Floor; The Nature of Oceanic Life; The Physical Resources of the Ocean; The Food Resources of the Ocean; Technology and the Ocean; The Ocean and Man. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.23. No. 3 - May/June, 1977
Features: There is but one Ocean; Florida's Underwater Policemen; Ever Larger Propellers; How Salty is the Ocean; Farming Giant Kelp; Ararat's Mystery Ship; Ranching Atlantic Bluefin. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.24. No. 2 - March/April 1978
Features: The Birth and Growth of Planet Ocean; The Octopus as a Pet; The World's Greatest Sailing Ship; Predatory Prawns; Hawaiian Fish Emigrants; Tractor Tugs - Marine Workhorses of the Future?; Fossil Mangrove Reef of Key Biscayne; Tiger Sharks. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.24. No. 4 - July/August 1978
Features: Close Encounters (of the Whale Kind); Panama Sea-Level Canal I; Panama Sea-Level Canal II - Biological Catastrophe or Grand Experiment; Anchors - Getting to Grips with the Ocean Floor; Nautilus and its Ancestors; Sharks - Good Vision or Poor?; Bantry Bay Skimmer; The Private Oceans. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.24. No. 6 - November/December 1978
Features: Exploring the Ocean Bottom in Manned Submersibles; Feeding and Spawning of Bluefish; IFOs; El Nino - unwanted guest; Live on California's Wharves; Oil Spills - The Causes and Cures; Long-Lining for Tilefish. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.25. No. 2 - March/April 1979
Features: A Gallery of Sponges; Environmental Management in Africa; Wasa - Time Capsule into Sweden's Past; John Dory; Constructing a Walrus Skin boat; The Ecology of Coral Reef Algae; Ocean Ice; The Case of the Tainted Mullet. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.25. No. 3 - May/Junel 1979
Features: Communication in Atlantic Bottlenosed Dolphins; Vessels vs. Whales; The Mummichog a Fish for all seasons; Hang Gliding - Underwater; The Sargasso - Sea of Fascinations; Dividing the Continental Shelf Pie; Artificial Reef Propagation of a Salt Marsh; Jaws of Extinct Shark at Planet Ocean. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.26. No. 6 - November/December 1980
Features: Dune Busting - How much can our beaches bear?; Nature's Architects; Neptune's Sea-Mail Service; Ocean Drogues and Drifters; One is by land, Two is by sea; Strawberries of the Sea - the Corynactis Anemone; Tides and Turbines; the Crow-of-Thorns Starfish - More sinned against the sinning?; Botany Bay - Strange world revealed on minus tides. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.27. No. 3 - May/June 1981
Features: The Gannet Sanctuary at Cape Kidnappers; Waves of Energy; Living Color on the Rocky Shore; Basking Green Sea Turtles; Protecting the Southern Ocean; Galveston's Killer Hurricane of 1900; Bikini Atoll - Radioactivity and the Marine Environment; The Oyster Toadfish - a voice in Long Island Sound. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.27. No. 5 - September/October 1981
Features: Mangroves and Man in the Malay Archipelago; Middle World of the Mangrove; The Ups and Downs of Pelagic Birding; Combat on the High Seas; California's Underwater Park Chain; The Bass Strait Overflow; the Cannonball; Turbines in the Ocean; Dragons of the Shore. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.28. No. 4 - July/August 1982
Features: Heard Island - Seal's Haven, Sealer's Nightmare; Ships that Flew; Schooling Hammerheads; Argonaut - Octopus in a Parchment Shell; The Sea Butterfly; Where does the Gulf of Mexico end and the Atlantic Ocean Begin; Angels of the Reef. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.29. No. 4 - July/August 1983
Features: Boats of Malta; In the belly of the whale; Surf smelt run; burying radioactive waste in the deep-sea floor; eat or be eaten - survival strategies of fishes; least terns of Gasparilla Island; the City of Rio De Janeiro - Voyage #80; the Distressed ocean swimmer; Dredge spoil - not always a waste. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.31. No. 4 - July-August 1985
Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.34. No. 1 - January/February 1988
Features: Marine mirages; The anemonefishes of the Indo-Pacific; Ancient ocean rocks - high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains; The dolphins of San Pedro Channel; Shipwreck legislation - legality vs. morality; Underwater pharmacy; Simon Lake and his diving boat. Nice copy. Book
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The (Victoria, British Columbia) Daily Colonist Newspaper: Thursday, October 27, 1904 Issue
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Britain demands apology from Russia; Tremendous activity at all British naval stations; Saanichton for Captain Wolley - Big Gathering in the Agricultural Hall Applauds fine speeches by Conservaties; Forestry Work in the Dominion; The Yukon is being Deserted - Hardy Miners driven out by the Scandalous Jobbery of the Officials; Latest Shipping intelligence of the Port, Coast and Ocean; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "...Swift's Celebrated... Fresh Pork Sausage - Free from Adulteration." Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Spring 1995
Features: On Wildlife - Education - the key to Understanding; Mission Planet Earth - the future of Underwater Exploration; Diving Solo to 1,000 Meters and Beyond; Ocean Everest - Reaching Earth's Greatest Depths; Arms Race of Antiquity - a Quest for Naval Supremacy. Average wear. Unmarked. 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 Saturday Evening Post, January 5 - January 12, 1963 *QUACK MARRIAGE COUNSELORS*
Features: In Defense of Gambling, by Jimmy Breslin; Quack Marriage Counselors - a growing nationwide scandal - long article; "King" of the U.S. Senate - Robert S. Kerr; Basketball's Bullies - reckless coaches, rowdy players and riotous fans disgrace our colleges, says Referee Al Lightner; Making the "Best-Dressed" List - some women have resorted to bribery; New Science that Copies Life - by mimicking the sensory organs of animals, scientists are inventing startling new machines; The Fateful Dive of the Atlantis - a bold experiment which took two divers to the ocean floor ends in mysterious death. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Sphere - The Empire's Illustrated Weekly: 31 March 1945
Photos include: The capture of the capital of Saar; Naval pictures from the Pacific Ocean; New pictures from the battle-line in Germany; Fighting in Mandalay; photos from the Russians; Coblenz (Koblenz) and Remagen; Massive captured German rail-mounted guns; The German citizen and the war; Iwo Jima conquest completed; The R.A.F. attack in Burma, Yugoslavia and Norway; Photos of the great 10-ton bombs of the R.A.F.; British scenes in field and shipyard; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August (Aug.) 1918: Thrilling Stories of the Air
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1911 - Across Unknown Labrador - Part IV By H. Hesketh Prichard
Pages 314-416 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Mystery of Grenville Park - The Countess Mannati D'Induno Olphert; Hunting the Wild Bull in New Zealand - D. W.O. Fagan; The Black Band - D.H. Low; A Houseboat on the Euphrates - John Horne; A Fight with a Golden Eagle - Frederic Lees; The "Zincali" Knife - H.J. O'Brien; An Ocean Death Trap; James G. McCurdy; Two Years Among Strange Tribes - Part I - W. Hilton-Simpson; The Adventures of "Babi" - W. Dingwall Fordyce; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part 5 - Mrs. Fred Maturin; The Sacrifice - D.D. Kennedy; A Church Built in a Day - H.J. Shepstone; A Nightmare Voyage - Chandos St. John Brenon; Across Unkown Labrador - Part 4 - H. Hesketh Prichard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1952
Features: The Chief's Daughter - dark deeds in Africa; The Mystery Man - an unusual man who served in the Merchant Navy on the Western Ocean; Three Christmas Days - reprint of a 1905 story dealing with a series of coincidences in Australia; Big Game Farming on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Trouble - a man gets in trouble because of his (dead) double; Australia's 'Prison Trees'; My Crocodile; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the Canadian Arctic; Desert El Dorado - Tennant's Creek, Australia and its early history; Our Trip to Robber's Roost - a roadless wilderness in Nebraska which provided haven for many outlaws in earlier years; The Wailing Waterhole - a tale from Australia's Outback; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Covers attached. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1956 - Australian Edition
Features: Two against the ocean, including a polio victim; White Man Fire-Walker - Methodist Missionary The Rev. Eric. L. Robinson; Pilot's 300 Crashes into Balloon Cables - continuing 'The Sky's No Limit," the first authentic story of the test pilots; The Mongoose - killer of Cobras; I Joined the Rush for Uranium - The Colorado Plateau; Rendezvous with Maneaters - Adventurer's Paradise Continued; Captured by Chinese Pirates - the steamer Ningpo; Below Zero Road - The Alaska Highway; The Trail of Crab Oonaka; Search for the Whooping Crane - trailing two wild birds for over 2,000 miles; We found unknown mountains - Nepalese adventures; The Beads of Assa - Somali adventure; Up-Helly-A - Norse Festival; and more. Backstrip missing; Covers partially loose. Still a worthy copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Destination Unknown - one of the most remarkable narratives of one-man pilgrimage ever - the adventures of Peter Pinney; Ocean Feud - the dramatic story of a bitter feud between two Norsemen, and of a "Yank" - great photos; The Terror at 16 Fathoms - Divers rate the groper, 800lb, as the deadliest fish in the seas; Horned Heroine of the Himilayas - the black goat; Nitchie's Grizzly - a Canadian Parks Officer describes an experience with a Grizzly Bear; The Ju-Ju Tree - an African story; A Ship with a Secret - an unsolved sea mystery - the Carrol A. Deering; The Kidnapped Crook - Part II - the concluding instalment of the amazing adventure of Clement Passal - alias the Marquis de Champaubert; The Wettest Place on Earth - Cherrapunji, a village in Assam; and more. Chips from back strip. Back cover loose but present. Average wear. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railoading: August 1971, Volume 31 Number 10
58 pages. Features: Many great photos; Mr. Young's X - the dream that died; All Railroads are living in glass houses; Over high trestles, into ocean mists - the last steam train leaves the Nanaimo River Camp of MacMillan Bloedel Limited on Vancouver Island; Voyaging Coast to Coast on an iron ocean. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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True West Magazine, August 1981
Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
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WoodenBoat Magazine, May / June 1981, Number 40 - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers
160 pages. Features: John Gardner - in his own words; Keeping the Water Out; San Francisco's Two Oldest Rowing Clubs; Basque Racing Sculls; Voga is again in vogue - Venice gest people back in the water; The Riverside Boat Company brings a 12 1/2 back up to its standards; PASTIME; Singlehanding an Old Gaffer - rigging ISKRA for ocean crossings; The plight of the canoe people; Ray Speck and the Sid Skiff; Sons of Hitches - more imporvements on a cylinder; Wooden ship building in World War I; Fixing a leaky shaft log. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Mulville, Dan
Trade Winds and Turtles
191 p. Hardcover Good condition; paper aged
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Mumford, J. Gordon (Signed)
The Black Pit...and Beyond
Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 138 pages. "A chilling first-person account of the author's experiences of war at sea while in his late teens. On December 26, 1942 as a Merchant Navy radio officer he sailed on the 'Scottish Heather' into the infamous 'black pit,' an area where German U-boats could operate freely on the surface without fear of attack from the air." - back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Munn & Co. editors; Day Allen Willey Edward F. Chandler German Emperor's Ocean Cup Race; Walter L. Beasley et al
Scientific American ; April 8 1905; volume XCII number 14; Southern Pacific Railway Lofty Pecos Viaduct Willey; First Turbine Atlantic Liner; Miniature Cameras; Remarkable Old Chinese Bronzes Beasley; etc
New York New York: Munn and Company 1905. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Single original issue with covers and ads. Folio 16" tall pages 277 to 296 20 total--black and white--self wraps proposed Broadway double decker subway New York front cover. A very good clean soft cover magazine over all with minor wear to the spine internal binding solid paper lightly yellowed. Munn and Company paperback
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Munn, Orson D.: Editor
Scientific American December 1930 Volume 143 Number 6
Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
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Musel, Robert; Carroll, Joy; Bruemmer, Fred
Weekend Magazine, 6 April 1968
32 pages. Features: Front cover photos of the Gerard LeBlond and Jack Wallace families; A Tale of Two Families - the Wallace and LeBlond families move with Canada to study the other official language; Toronto's Linda Thorson - The Canadian Avenger - article with photo (which includes Patrick MacNee; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; AMICUS - Friends to the Friendless - the Toronto Bail Project; Nice colour centerfold ad for Honda motorcycles has a clipping from it upper right side which affects the Canadian Olympic Hockey story on the next page; Several nice photos of Canada's Olympic hockey team playing the Soviet Union; Wall-to-Wall Walruses on a small oogli in the Arctic Ocean - article and great colour photos; Nice Helena Rubinstein ad inside back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Museo Ocean. Monaco
Mediterraneo Occidentale - Carte topographique dressée d'après les sondages les plus récents.
Monaco 1959. Scala 1:1.000.000 cm. 112 x 76 unknown
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 0-04065
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MUSEUM OF THE WORLD OCEAN.; GOSUDARSTVENNYI ERMITAZH RUSSIA
MORE I MOREKHODSTVO V ANTICHNOI KULʹTURE : KATALOG VYSTAVKI
SANKT-PETERBURG : SLAVIIA ©2009 2009-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. NICE CONDITION LARGER SLENDER HARDCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN THE TEXT. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO COVER. A CLEAN AND SOLID BOOK SANKT-PETERBURG : SLAVIIA, ©2009 hardcover
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: R-0948
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Métais (J)
Croisière en océan indien
1942 vigot frères éditeur paris 1942 In12 broché 304 pages
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 5823
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NAGAKURA, Hiromi (Photographer; autograph)
KITA NO SHIMA (in japanese typogaphy = Northern Island): GREENLAND. / MINAMI NO SHIMA (in jap. = 'Southern Island'): KAPINGAMARANGI. - 2 Volumes; inscribed copies.
Tokyo, Kaise-Sha, 2011. 64 / 64 unnumbered pages on thick glossy paper, colour-photographically illustrated throughout. - Publisher's colour-photogr. illustr. hardcover-bindings with col.-phot. illustr. dustjackets and imprinted belly-binds, together in the col.-phot. ill. whte slipcase; 4to.(ca. 27 x 23 x 2,5 cm; ca. 1,2 kg.).
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 1601140109xpkv
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Nallatamby Pravina
Mille mots du français mauricien. Réalités lexicales et francophonie à l’Ile Maurice
PUF, Conseil International de la langue française 1995 In-8 cartonné. 299 pages. Bon état d’occasion.
書籍販売業者の参照番号
: 102449
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