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Sailing ships & sailing people, seafaring throughout the ages : a Joint Conference of the Australian Association for Maritime History and the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology in association with a series of public lectures by international seafaring personalities / organised by University Extension, the University of Western Australia.
Record no:
85007
Call no:
623.82 SAI
Author:
Joint Conference of the Australian Association for Maritime History and the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (1987 : Nedlands, W.A.) ; Evans, Vaughan ; University of Western Australia. University Extension ; Runyan, Timothy J. ; Manguin, Pierre-Yves ; Bruijn, Jaap R. ; Foulke, Robert D. ; Horridge, G. Adrian ; Varadarajan, Lotika ; Hawkins, Clifford W., 1914- ; Henderson, Graeme
Publisher:
Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia. University Extension
Year:
1987
Description:
1 v. (various pagings) ; 33 cm.
Subject:
Sailing ships - Europe - History;
Outrigger canoes;
Boats and boating - Asia, Southeastern;
Maritime anthropology;
Bugis (Malay people) - Boats;
Trade routes - Asia, Southeastern;
Sailing ships - India - History;
Shipping - India - History;
Navigation - Indian Ocean - History;
Dhows;
Shipping - Arabian Peninsula;
Seafaring life - Europe - History;
Underwater archaeology - Australia - History;
Underwater archaeology - Western Australia;
Navigation - History - Congresses;
Shipping - Australia - History;
Sailing ships - Australia - History;
Shipbuilding - Asia, Southeastern - History;
Merchant ships - Asia, Southeastern - History;
Merchant marine - Netherlands - History;
Shipping - Netherlands - Asia;
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 - Criticism and interpretation;
Naval art and science in literature;
Seamanship - Fiction;
Prahus;
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Notes:
Title from cover of brochure.
A compilation of most of the papers of the public lecture series presented at the conference.
Public lectures were given at the Octagon Theatre, the University of WA, from 12-23 January 1987 as part of the Annual University of Western Australia Summer School.
Missing first lecture: The America's Cup : 136 years of seafaring / by Bruce Stannard.
Type:
Book
Abstract:
  • The trading ships of the South China Sea : the shipbuilding techniques and their role in the history of the development of Asian trade networks / Pierre-Yves Manguin.
  • European ships and seafaring before Columbus / by Timothy Runyan.
  • The
East Indiamen / by Jaap Bruijn.
  • Conrad and the power of seamanship / by Robert Foulke.
  • From outrigger canoe to bugis prahu / by Adrian Horridge.
  • The sailing craft of India / by Lotika Varadarajan.
  • The dhows of Arabia / by Clifford Hawkins.
  • Maritime archaeology in Australia / by Graeme Henderson.
  • The sailing ships of colonial Australia / by Vaughan Evans.
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