108 résultats
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
1984A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 7 1/8"w x 10 1/4"h. 264 pages. Black and white photos and illustrations.
2002Book shows only very slight use/very light shelfwear only. Interior/text is clean and unmarked in any way. 251 pages. Graphs, charts, tables, maps.
1982Book 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.
1978A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. 228 pages. Many b&w photos.
19919 issues from 1991 including the following months: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Topics featured include: Cayman Islands; Port Hardy, B.C. Dolphins; Wreck of the A.W. Perry - Nova Scotia; Kingston and Killarney Shipwrecks; The Elusive Wrymouth; Barkley Sound, God's Pocket, Campbell River; Caribbean ABCs; Blackfish Sound; Wreck of the Emperor; Tropical Fish - in the Maritimes?; Indonesia - Exotic Diving; Yap, Saba, Catalina Island; Sunshine Coast, B.C.; Wreck of the Cornwall; Gulf Stream - Bahamas and Florida; Gargantua Harbour Wreck- Lake Superior; East Coast Anemone; Kona, Palau, CoCo View; Sidney, B.C.; St. Lawrence; Moon Jelly; Six Gill Sharks; Diving naturalist - temperate vs. tropical; B.C's Race Rocks; Diving with the RCMP - Search and Rescue; The US Virgin Islands; Sinking the G.B Church - New Canadian Artificial Reef; The Sea Cucumber; Construction Diving; Emeral Bay - wreck dive in Alberta; Panama; Thunder Bay; The Solomon Islands - WWII remnants; Diamond Knot - West Coast Wreck; Indonesia; Beluga Encounter off Cape Breton; Nudibranchs. Moderate wear. Sound copies. Book
1996Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Bell Island, Newfoundland; Bahamas; Transpac Expedition; To House or not to House; Filming a Salmon's Struggle; Manola - half a shipwreck; Blissful Beqa Lagoon; St. Kitts; Shipwrecks of Bermuda; Batchawana - in Lake Superior; Octopus at Argonaut Warf; Arrow - Nova Scotia Shipwreck; Catalina; Emergency ascent Lines; Wilcox - Lake Erie Schooner; Adventure Diving in Newfoundland; Ice Diving and Asbestos; Joyland - the honeymoon wreck; Canadian Cayman Islands; Cozumel; A Tribute to Brooks Wetsuits; Reel Diving; Wrecked in Nova Scotia; Socorro; Ghost Fleet of the St. Clair River; Good Samaritan Laws; Sea Urchins of the Bay of Chaleur; Label Your Tanks; Quebec Overview; Barbados - shipwreck haven; Haida Gwai; Tobermory's shipwrecks; Hard water diving - Banff; Romancing the Providenciales; Island Namesake - Jane McLeod; Lumpfish; Thailand; State of the Oceans; The Coral Reef; Project Aware; Preserving the Marine Environment; They are Eating the Ocean; Race Rocks, B.C.; Record-Breaking Cave Dive; Dive in an Aquarium; Florida Reefs; Columbia Sinking; Great Lakes - Narrow Island's B.B. Buckhout; Mexico Cave Adventure; Nitrox to the Arctic; Photography 101. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
1900Photos 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
1977Features: The World under the Reef; Supertankers - coming or going?; Deep-Water Corals; The Dead Sea; the Misunderstood Morays; Annobon - the forgotten island of the Atlantic; When Scientists and Oystermen Co-operate; Alvin - Window in the Deep. Sound copy. Book
1978Features: 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
1979Features: 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
1979Features: 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
1980Features: The Multitudinous Reef; Icebreaking by Hovercraft; Flowers that Look to the Sea; giant Spider crabs from Mexico; Butterflies of the Sea; Point Bonita Lighthouse; LIberty-Ship Reefs in the Gulf of Mexico; The Dolphin Project. Sound copy. Book
1980Features: Oceans of Energy; Australia's Great Barrier Reef National Park; The Misunderstood Mussel; How Sharks Feed; The giant staircase and the Pygmy forest; A Tale of Two Oceans; Mercator - the man who straightened out the world; The Turtle Run - From Ascension to Brazil; Save-the-Turtle Stamps. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: 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
1985Features: Vision in marine animals; The sea birds of northern Britain; Ex Libris - Neptunus Rex; In search of spiny lobster larvae; the unspoiled Little Barrier Reef of Saudi Arabia; Winter kill of summer flounder; The ancient sea that became a state; Master of disguise. Sound copy. Book
1986Features: 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
1987Features: 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
1967Features: Reprint of rare book 'Twelve Years in the Saddle for law and order on the frontiers of Texas, by Sergeant W.J.L. Sullivan, Texas Ranger; an Indian fight in Jackson Hole - the Bannock Indians; Canadian Gold on a California Reef - Pacific Mail Steamer, Brother Jonathan; The Dogie from Kickapoo Creek - John Boon Formwalt; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; The Lost Love of Jim Younger; Rocky Mountain Iron Man - Bruce Neal; Spokane's Fighting Marshal - Joel F. Warren; Tales of Tonopah, Nevada; . J. Wright Mooar and John W. Mooar put a price on the head of the buffalo! ; Slick faced and Sweet Smelling - early barbers; I saw Jim French Die - Catoosa, I.T.; Father Thought the world of Charley Russell; Old Fort Moroni; 'X' marks my room - early stagecoach travel; 'Denver has always been a good show town'; and more. Clean and unmarked (aside from 3 works underlined on page 7) with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1955Features: 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
1955Features: "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
196348 pages. Features: Money - Suddenly everybody's owing it - Nine out of ten Canadian families are now living and playing with things they haven't paid for; Which Way Will Mexico Lead Latin America?; Lynn Seymour - what it takes to become an international star - many photos; The new assault on smoking; The anatomy of John Profumo's big lie - behind the greatest scandal of the century; I was shipwrecked on a coral reef - a girl sailor's log of a classic adventure at sea, by Myrna Birch; Great colour photo ad for Sterling London Dry Gin. 5"x4" clipping from Metropolitan Life ad on page 10 does not affect any meaningful content. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1991Features: 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
1993Features: 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
195188 pages. Features: Humourous cover art by Oscar Cahen; The Censorship that Helps the Enemy - The bad events of March 17, 1951 in the Korean War involving the Princess Patricias - Editorial; There'll Always Be a Massey - Canada's most famous family started on the road to wealth from a tiny implement forge near Port Hope, Ontario - article with photos; You Laughed at My Father - story by James Aldridge; The Hottest Square Mile in the World - under the humpland between Ace Lake and Beaverlodge lies an abundance of Uranium, and here Uranium City will be built - article with photos; The West Coast's Worst Disaster - The Tragedy of the Princess Sophia which disappeared off Vanderbilt Reef and took 343 people to their deaths in icy Alaskan waters - a Maclean's flashback; How to Raise Ten Kids in Six Rooms - Frank and Helen Teskey of Toronto have ten kids under fifteen and they'd welcome more; One-Man Powerhouse - John Deagle of Whitefish Falls, Ontario runs his own electric power company! - article with many photos of this incredible man; Sherbrooke, Quebec - where French and English share a city in harmony - nostalgic article with photos; The Battle to Beat Leukemia - doctors search for a cure; Footlights Round My Heart - story by Ronald R. Smith; Sensational full-page colour Coke ad features illustration of young lady and the caption "Want Something Good?"; Nice colour Chevrolet ad; DeSoto car ad; Full-page ad for Birks Jewellers features watches including the Challenger Eterna-matic; Plymouth car ad; Canada Savings Bond ad features James F. Johnston, Superintendant of Palm Dairies Limited in Regina; Great colour photo Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows horses pulling vintage auto through the mud. Light wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A quality copy. Book
