Trains & Boats & Planes from Sad Paradise Books

Medowie: SP, 2010. Second printing. Paperback. Fine. A bright tight copy. Octavo in illustrated wrapper. 236 pages, including 4 maps, a suite of 10 colour photographic plates, references and index. Traces the exploration and achievements of the seafaring, northern hemisphere nations, on a mission to secure further possessions and trading lanes to all, often unknown corners of the… Read more about this item

London: Little Brown, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a neat, bright copy. Octavo in blue boards with black lettering to spine, as issued. 336 pages including plans, chart, colour photographic plates. Dustjacket lightly creased. The Ridgeway family leave their life in Scotland behind and set out in their 57 foot ketch to… Read more about this item

Sydney: Dreamweaver Books, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. A quite neat, very sound copy of this classic on Australasian passenger ships, TOGETHER WITH some interesting ephemera. Large quarto in publisher's original black cloth with title and credits in yellow to spine and front board, photographic endpapers. 223 pages including a chapter on each of the Australasian… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a bright, neat copy. Octavo in publisher's original turquoise boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 250 pages. A pair of young Australian yachties get unwittingly caught up in the world of espionage and drug smuggling in Cochin, narrowly escaping with their… Read more about this item