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Sharks
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| NZ$ 74.95 each |
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| Author: Leonard Compagno |
| Published by: HarperCollins Publishers |
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The shark is undeniably the 'lord of the seas', having existed unchanged for 350 million years. Not only is it the biggest of fish, it is also the best equipped for hunting down and destroying its prey. It is capable of living in all waters shallow or deep, tropical or temperate, fresh or salt, and unlike most animals, it has no natural predators apart from the Killer Whale. Set to become a classic natural history title, Collins Field Guide to Sharks describes and illustrates the world's 530 species of shark. Shark families are grouped together and for each individual species there is detailed identification information, and original colour illustration, and a distribution map showing where in the world that species can be found. Covering all aspects of these extraordinary creatures, from their behaviour, breeding, feeding and ecology, right through to the impact of humans on sharks throughout the world, this is one of the most
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New Zealanders and the Sea
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| NZ$ 70.00 each |
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| Author: Te Ara Online Encyclopedia |
| Published by: David Bateman Ltd |
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This superbly illustrated book tells the many stories of New Zealanders and the Sea: From the science of oceanography and climate, to the history of boat building and shipping, lighthouses, castaways, the fishing industry, marine conservation, recreational boating and fishing, kaimoana and aquaculture and, of course, surfing.
272 pages in 286 x 210 mm format, colour and monochrome throughout
Published November 2009.
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Hatcher's Notebook
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| NZ$ 95.00 each |
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| Author: Julian S. Hatcher |
| Published by: Stackpole Books,U.S. |
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Starting with the '03 Springfield and '17 Enfield, this authoritative guide describes the development of automatic and semi-automatic weapons, explaining how they work, barrels and experiments with obstructions, strengths and weaknesses of military rifles, receiver steels and heat treatment, headspace, recoil problems, gunpowder, corrosion, triggers, and the Pederson Device. It also covers noted gun makers, tips to match ammunition, interior and exterior ballistics, velocity variation, measuring methods, weights, overloads, and ranges. It provides invaluable information for shooters, gunsmiths, collectors, ballisticians, and hunters.
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American Rifle : A Biography
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| Author: Alexander Rose |
| Published by: Delacorte Press |
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George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. Now, in this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and encompassing the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of this most essential firearm and its place in American culture. In the eighteenth century American soldiers discovered that they no longer had to fight in Europe's time-honored way. With the evolution of the famed "Kentucky" Rifle--a weapon slow to load but devastatingly accurate in the hands of a master--a new era of warfare dawned, heralding the birth of the American individualist in
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