| Description |
20 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, 1 map, portraits ; 23 x 24 cm |
| Summary |
"One of the Australian National Maritime Museum's most spectacular exhibitions is Watermarks - adventure, sport and play. Occupying the 30-metre-high ANZ Tall Gallery, it explores the way in which we use the water for relaxation, for exercise and competition, and in pursuit of personal achievements. One of this exhibitions defining themes, Voyaters, salutes individuals who challenge themselves on the world's oceans and waterways. It's here that we tell the remarkable story of German adventurer, voyager and emigrant Oskar Speck and his 50,000-kilometre odyssey, paddling a kayak from Germany to Australia in the 1930s."--T.p. verso |
| Notes |
Map on end paper |
| Subject |
Speck, Oscar -- Travel
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Speck, Oskar, 1907-1993 -- Travel
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Australian National Maritime Museum -- Exhibitions.
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Germans -- Travel.
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Kayakers -- Biography.
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Kayakers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Kayaking -- History -- 20th century.
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Sea kayaking.
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Voyages around the world -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Mellefont, Jeffrey, 1951-
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Australian National Maritime Museum.
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| ISBN |
9780977547128 (paperback) |
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