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WBS BOOKS AND DVDS
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First Home: The Couta Boat and Victoria's Couta Coast
The history of a distinctly Australian fishing boat and culture. This book records a rich but almost forgotten maritime heritage with its economy centred on Victorian coastal towns and a heart in the stormy waters of Bass Strait. From the stories of early fishing families to the boats found, restored and conserved since the 1980s, First Home chronicles a voyage guided by an "oral map" of Victoria's west coast. Along the way, the couta coast appears, an important rediscovery for Australia's maritime heritage and historical record.
$110.00
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Blue Water Bushmen
The early history of skiff sailing on Sydney Harbour is captured in this book by Bruce Stannard. Full of photographs and Stannards enthraling writing stlye, you will feel the action, culture and spirit of this famous Sydney pastime.
$59.95
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Defiance goes to sea
A quirky childrens book written by Peter and Marianne Caddy, Andrew Scorgie and illustrated by Andrew Watson. An adventurous tale of the Queenscliff Couta Boats, the book offers an introduction to the world of Couta Boats for the next generation.
$14.00
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Defiance to the rescue
Written by Peter and Marianne Caddy, Andrew Scorgie and illustrated by Andrew Watson. The Queenscliff Couta Boat Defiance teams up with other local icons for another wonderful adventure out the rip and into the high seas.
$14.00
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The Huon Pine Story
Written by Gary Kerr and Harry Mcdermott, The Huon Pine Story is an written in a narrtive style full of interviews with old timers and gives an insight into the lives men and thier familie's who cut and harvested these giants of the Tasmanian forest. The book demonstrates many of the uses and art forms of this great natural recource and helps to forge an understanding of the issues of resource sustainability and enviromental managment.
$59.95
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The Last Cape Horners
From Garry Kerr a journey through time that links two unlikely places, Port Victoria in Australia and the Aland islands in Finland. Stunning footage of the grain clippers Racing around Cape Horn, with decks awash and sails blown out. Recount the adventure of the young Australians who took passage on these ships at the end of the working age of sail. DVD 93min
$39.95 Special : $29.95
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The Couta Boat: Return of a Classic
By Garry Kerr, this DVD is a must for all Couta Boat owners.With early historical footage of the Couta fleet, interviews from Couta men and women. Listen to Ken Lacco, Lou Ferrier, Harry Mouchmore and many others talking about all the aspects of the boats and their own stories about their lives on the sea.
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