BOOK REVIEW | BP Shipping Pictorial: The Golden Years 1945-1975
Don’t be fooled by the word “pictorial” in its title. While it does include some first-rate pictures, this book is much more than that.
Don’t be fooled by the word “pictorial” in its title. While it does include some first-rate pictures, this book is much more than that.
The Australian maritime world has lost one of its great contributors with the death of Robert “Otto” Albert last week.
Perhaps made complacent by a comparatively low death toll in 2022, the global ferry industry has disgraced itself with a near doubling of fatalities...
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While Australia’s precious politicians procrastinate on whether the multiple nuclear bans in the country should be lifted, Queensland ship design company...
As one of our occasional columnists here on Baird Maritime, leading and long-experienced Australian marine engineer Kent Stewart is well known to and...
Showing that you should never judge a book by its cover, your reviewer was not looking forward to reading this one. Its cover picture of an atomic bomb...
Why anyone wants to visit or explore the earth’s polar regions is completely beyond this reviewer who hates the cold. Going there in comfortable, warm,...
Once your reviewer gained the strength to lift its 500, bigger than A4, hard-covered pages, he not so much read this book as devoured it. It is a brilliant...
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