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Sydney: Harper Collins Publishers. 2009. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Fold-out plate of the Sydney. Inside of dustjacket is printed with HMAS Sydney Sections diagrams. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 264 pages.. How Australia's greatest maritime mystery was solved. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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- Title The Search for the Sydney
- Author David L. Mearns
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, Sydney
- Date 2009
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780732288891 / 0732288894
- Library of Congress subjects Australia - History, World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009483318
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.545
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HarperCollins, Australia, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. How Australia's greatest maritime mystery was solved'We just found Sydney. We've got it. It's absolutely crystal clear. She's sitting upright in a small debris field. there's no doubt about it. the Prime Minister or anybody else can announce it. We have found HMAS Sydney.'tHE FULL AND OFFICIAL StORY OF tHE SIX-YEAR HUNt FOR HMAS SYDNEY BY tHE SHIPWRECK HUNtER WHO FOUND HERFor sixty-six years it was Australia's greatest maritime mystery: what happened to the 'pride of the fleet' HMAS Sydney - was it beaten in a fair fight with the German cruiser Kormoran, or was there treachery involved? Could the Kormoran's survivors' account of the battle and its aftermath be believed? Why were there no survivors from Sydney? And where was the wreck? David Mearns first heard the story of the Sydney in 1996, and it left an indelible impression in his mind. One of the…
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HarperCollins, Sydney, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Maps & photographs and illustrations. David Mearns tells the full, dramatic story of his search for two ships, 'Sydney' and 'Kormoran'. whose paths crossed one fateful day in 1941. His riviting account answers the questions which has dogged 'Sydney's' disappearance. Pristine copy, colour illustrated dust jacket, which when opened out has the schematics of the HMAS Sydney deck by deck, in a poster measuring approximately 3' x 2'. On the front cover of the hardcover binding there is the location where the HMAS Sydney was found in degrees and minutes and seconds. Internally illustrated with brilliant photography, archival photographs, drawings, and fold out illustrations that take up four pages. A work of art, that will become scarcer and scarcer as people realise historic value of the book. Full number line. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall.…
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HarperCollins, Sydney, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Maps & photographs and illustrations. David Mearns tells the full, dramatic story of his search for two ships, 'Sydney' and 'Kormoran'. whose paths crossed one fateful day in 1941. His riviting account answers the questions which has dogged 'Sydney's' disappearance. Pristine copy, colour illustrated dust jacket, which when opened out has the schematics of the HMAS Sydney deck by deck, in a poster measuring approximately 3' x 2'. On the front cover of the hardcover binding there is the location where the HMAS Sydney was found in degrees and minutes and seconds. Internally illustrated with brilliant photography, archival photographs, drawings, and fold out illustrations that take up four pages. A work of art, that will become scarcer and scarcer as people realise historic value of the book. Full number line. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall.…
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Pymble, Harper Collins first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Here, for the first time, David Mearns tells the full, dramatic story of his search for two ships, 'Sydney' and 'Kormoran'. whose paths crossed one fateful day in 1941. His riviting account answers the questions which has dogged 'Sydney's' disappearance. With extraordinary full colour plates and fold-out diagrams. 310 x 238mm., pp. 8 (preliminaries), 264, b/w & colour plates throughout, fold-outs, diagrams, endnotes, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. AUTHOR SIGNED. As NEW. ISBN: 9780732288891
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