MARINE & OCEANOGRAPHY from

Melbourne: Thomas Nelson (Australia) Limited, 1977. 1st ed.. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, stiffened pictorial cover, black endpapers, top edge little foxed, minor edgewear. 203 pp. Judith Wright, the noted Australian poet and environmentalist, describes the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from limestone mining and oil drilling. A classic Australian study of a serious and longlasting… Read more about this item

Kensington, WA: Department of Conservation and Land Management, 2003. Paperback wide octavo, very good plus condition, colour text-photos (some full-page), minimal edgewear. 145 pp. Ann Storrie and colleagues tell the story of Western Australia's Busselton Jetty which is over 138 years old and over 1.8 kilometres long - the longest wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere. Effectively a huge… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Coralwatch / University of Queensland Press (UQP), 2009. 1st ed.. Paperback quarto, very good plus condition, includes CD ROM and coral health chart, colour photos, charts, minor edgewear. Heavy (1.0 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 236 pp. This book places the focus on coral reefs, the astonishing abundance of life within them,… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, 1923. 1st ed.. Hardback very small, no jacket, very good condition, leatherette cover (gilt embossed), black & blue text-photos with coloured edge, frontispiece, gilt edges, decorative endpapers, colour fold-out map inside rear cover, spine rubbed, pages lightly toned, spine rubbed (small piece missing bottom edge), boards slightly lifted outwards, printed dedication, minor… Read more about this item

Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2014. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, base spine slightly bumped, minor edgewear corners. 237 pp. With the body of a torpedo, the jaws of a bear trap, the power of a truck and a brain the size of a thumb, this is the story of the great white shark, ocean's most perfect predator. James… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003. Paperback thick trade, very good condition, maps, spine lightly creased, minor edgewear. 480 pp. The author travels and re-experiences the voyages of James Cook and the exotic scenes he encountered. He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farmboy who broke through the barriers of his class and time, to become the greatest navigator… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), 1995. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), tables, figures (including frontispiece), top edge foxed, owner's sticker, protected by removable archival plastic sleeve. 366 pp. A classic French text, here in English translation, that traces the development of the science of the study of fishes (ichthyology). He also… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, cover corners minimally bumped, minimal edgewear jacket. 348 pp. Kieran Mulvaney, an American whale conservationist, recounts the extraordinary efforts to intercept the persistent fleet that keeps hunting whales in the waters surrounding Antarctica and halt the… Read more about this item

Sydney: J. A. & R. Dulhunty, 1986. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), endpaper maps, colour photos, minimal edgewear. 231 pp. The third book of a trilogy about the geological studies of Lake Eyre, South Australia, by geology academic John Dulhunty (Sydney University) and his wife Roma. This volume covers their arduous trek… Read more about this item

Hampton, VIC: P. N. Reilly, 1978. 2nd or revised, reprint ed.. Paperback small, very good condition, card cover, stapled pamphlet, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear. 32 pp. Pauline Reilly lovingly describes the penguin colony of Phillip Island, Victoria, based on the work by the Penguin Study Group at Phillip Island.