| Description |
286 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Early life -- Mackay, and Cape York in wartime -- New Guinea in wartime -- The Darwin run -- Changing assignments -- Christmas Island and Java -- Back in Barrier Reef waters -- Oura II -- Bonthorpe -- Bonthorpe and Wewak -- Wewak under power -- Turtle coast -- "Sea beef" -- The Jedda -- Malita -- Cyclones -- Malita and Argo on scientific cruise -- Timor -- Return to Queensland waters -- Coastwise again -- Crocodile hunting in the Fly River -- In the rivers of Papua -- Gulf survey -- Man and the environment -- The Lion's den |
| Notes |
Available from Mr. H.W. Cummings, Black Mountain, Via Cooktown, Qld. 4871 |
| Subject |
Cummings, Bert, 1912-
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Cummings, H. W. (Herbert William), 1912-
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Islander (Ship)
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Armed merchant ships.
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Coastwise shipping -- Australia, Northern.
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Merchant marine -- Australia, Northern.
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Merchant mariners -- Australia, Northern -- Biography.
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Seafaring life -- Australia, Northern.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian
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Seafaring life.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Northern Territory
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Author |
Pike, Glenville, 1925-2011
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| ISBN |
0959463003 |
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