The seawatchers: The story of Australia's Coast Radio Service - Hardcover
- PublisherAngus & Robertson
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0207151989
- ISBN 13 9780207151989
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages248
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The Seawatchers: The Story of Australia's Coast Radio Service
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Angus & Robertson, Sydney
(1986)
ISBN 10: 0207151989
ISBN 13: 9780207151989
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. xii, 248pp, illustrated with b/w photos, maps, six appendices, index. Blue boards in jacket which is edge-worn, with a wrap-around illustration. The book tells of the work of radio pioneers around the turn of the 20th century, and traces the development of radio communications in Australia to the 1980s. It tells about many real-life adventures and disasters: the New Guinea gold rush, the 1942 bombing of Darwin, wartime escapes from the Japanese in the Pacirfic Islands, devastating cyclones and volcanic eruptions, as well as tales of life in remote South Pacific outposts and on a tiny island in the Coral Sea. Slight smell of mothballs. Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 028829
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xii, 248pp, illustrated with b/w photos, maps, six appendices, index. Blue boards in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, some rubbing to edges of boards, a little minor foxing. The book tells of the work of radio pioneers around the turn of the 20th century, and traces the development of radio communications in Australia to the 1980s. It tells about many real-life adventures and disasters: the New Guinea gold rush, the 1942 bombing of Darwin, wartime escapes from the Japanese in the Pacirfic Islands, devastating cyclones and volcanic eruptions, as well as tales of life in remote South Pacific outposts and on a tiny island in the Coral Sea. Slight smell of mothballs. Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 049852
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ISBN 13: 9780207151989
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book condition very good. Hard Cover. Dust jacket very good, with minor crease. Book boards near fine. Book block very good and clean except light dust mark along the top. Text body clean. Overall a very good book. Clean pages. Seller Inventory # ABE-1660553085137
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The Seawatchers: The Story of Australia's Coast Radio Service
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(1986)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xii+248pp., Pictorial full colour photographic dustjacket with tiny closed tear to top edge of rear panel and hint of spotting inside front flap of jacket- covered in removable protective clear plastic, blue textured boards with white text to spine, blue eps. with neat previous ownership pen price to top corner of ffep., ack., preface by author, abbrev., prologue, b/w plts. & text, maps, appends., index. The Seawatchers, the first published history of the CRS and the related Island Radio Service, tells of the work of radio pioneers around the turn of the century, and traces the development of radio communications in Australia. Size: Small Quarto. Book. Seller Inventory # 004422
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The Seawatchers - The story of Australia's Coast Radio Service
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light age and reading wear. 248 pages. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Ships & the Sea; Australia; ISBN: 0207151989. ISBN/EAN: 9780207151989. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50331. Seller Inventory # 50331
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