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  • Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack - From the History of the First U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
    Elisha Kent Kane
    In 1845, British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786–1847) embarked on his third and final expedition into the Canadian Arctic to force the Northwest Passage. After two years with no word, a £20,000 reward was offered to anyone who could find the expedition, leading to many rescue attempts. Two such attempts were undertaken by Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1...
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    25,59 €

  • Pirates And Pickled Heads
    Helen Susan Swift
    A collection of valiant vessels and storied sea captains from years past, Pirates and Pickled Heads is an eclectic look at some of Scotland’s most unusual maritime stories.Within four sections spanning the personalities, ships, places, and pirates of Scotland, you’ll discover an intriguing nautical history nestled among sweeping sea views and lush coastal landscapes.     From t...
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    26,44 €

  • Pirates And Pickled Heads
    Helen Susan Swift
    A collection of valiant vessels and storied sea captains from years past, Pirates and Pickled Heads is an eclectic look at some of Scotland’s most unusual maritime stories.Within four sections spanning the personalities, ships, places, and pirates of Scotland, you’ll discover an intriguing nautical history nestled among sweeping sea views and lush coastal landscapes.     From t...
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    14,19 €

  • Pirates And Pickled Heads
    Helen Susan Swift
    A collection of valiant vessels and storied sea captains from years past, Pirates and Pickled Heads is an eclectic look at some of Scotland’s most unusual maritime stories.Within four sections spanning the personalities, ships, places, and pirates of Scotland, you’ll discover an intriguing nautical history nestled among sweeping sea views and lush coastal landscapes.     From t...
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    18,49 €

  • Pirates And Pickled Heads
    Helen Susan Swift
    A collection of valiant vessels and storied sea captains from years past, Pirates and Pickled Heads is an eclectic look at some of Scotland’s most unusual maritime stories.Within four sections spanning the personalities, ships, places, and pirates of Scotland, you’ll discover an intriguing nautical history nestled among sweeping sea views and lush coastal landscapes.     From t...
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    24,20 €

  • Pirates And Pickled Heads
    Helen Susan Swift
    A collection of valiant vessels and storied sea captains from years past, Pirates and Pickled Heads is an eclectic look at some of Scotland’s most unusual maritime stories.Within four sections spanning the personalities, ships, places, and pirates of Scotland, you’ll discover an intriguing nautical history nestled among sweeping sea views and lush coastal landscapes.     From t...
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    15,76 €

  • Inside the US Navy of 1812-1815
    William S Dudley
    What did it take--logistically and operationally--for the small and underfunded US Navy to face the battle-hardened Royal Navy in the War of 1812? Find out in this book, the magnum opus of one of the deans of American naval history.When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world’s foremost sea power, with a navy th...
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    69,28 €

  • Grace O’Malley
    History Nerds
    The name Grace O’Malley stands forever as a sign and symbol that even in repressive times no one can be held back that chooses their destiny. A Pirate, a wife, a mother, and a fearsome warrior, Grace carved her name in the annuls of history standing up to Lords, ladies, and even Queen Elizabeth as she refused to bow the knee to someone she called "an equal".A strong woman in a ...
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    12,76 €

  • Like a Ship’s Fair Ghost Upon the Sea - Poetry Dedicated to the White Ship
    Various
    “Like a Ship’s Fair Ghost Upon the Sea” is a collection of poetry by various poets dedicated to the White Ship, a vessel that sank in the English Channel on 25th November, 1120. The ship was carrying around 300 people, including the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, William Adelin. All but one of those aboard died, and it was the death of William Adelin t...
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    14,15 €

  • MARITIME SRI LANKA
    CHULANEE ATTANAYAKE
    Being an island nation, the ocean is never too far from Sri Lanka. Situated right at the center of the world’s busiest sea lanes of communication, the geography connects the country with the Indian Ocean, and its destiny is linked to this strategic body of water. For centuries, the Indian Ocean has been part of Sri Lanka’s strategic, security, and political narratives. However,...
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    142,05 €

  • Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System
    Cuauhtémoc Villamar
    Villamar examines the role of Portuguese merchants in the formation of the Manila Galleon as a system of trade founded at the end of the sixteenth century. Surveying the Portuguese commercial networks from the ’Estado da Índia’ across the ’Spanish lake,’ this book sheds light on the early modern globalization from a Iberian perspective. ...
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    241,09 €

  • Why We Love Pirates
    Rebecca Simon
    For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories"Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber." -Wreck Watch MagazineMaritime Media Mountbatten Literary Award Nominee2021 International Book Awards finalist in History: General#1 Bestseller in Caribbean & West Indies, Central America, and ...
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    23,40 €

  • Why We Love Pirates
    Rebecca Simon
    For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories"Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber." -Wreck Watch MagazineMaritime Media Mountbatten Literary Award Nominee2021 International Book Awards finalist in History: General#1 Bestseller in Caribbean & West Indies, Central America, and ...
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    16,42 €

  • Gunboats, Empire and the China Station
    Matthew Heaslip
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    160,50 €

  • The Water’s Edge
    Tyson Brown
    There must be a reason why we love beaches and coastlines. Aside from their aesthetic and leisurely value, humans have been drawn to the water’s edge since ancient times. In this book, we shall explore this history and reveal a great mystery about our past. For not only does humanity and the sea have a deep relationship, but life in aquatic and coastal ecosystems has made us wh...
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    17,43 €

  • The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800
    The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. ...
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    374,42 €

  • The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress
    Daniel Gifford
    The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago’s 1893 world’s fair. Traversing waterways across North America, the whaleship enthralled crowds from Montreal to Racine. Her ultimate fate, however, was to be a failed sideshow of marine curiosities and a metaphor for a dying industry out of step with Gilded Age America. This book ...
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    57,54 €

  • The Steamboat Era
    J. E. Gessler / J.E. Gessler / S.L. Kotar
    The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat’s development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America’s frontiers and created new trade routes and economic cente...
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    58,83 €

  • Portishead Radio
    Larry Bennett
    Portishead Radio was the world’s largest long range maritime radio communications station. Originally located at a site in Devizes, Wiltshire in 1920, the transmitters were relocated to Portishead, near Bristol, shortly after the receiving station was moved to Highbridge, Somerset during the 1920s. The station, originally operated by the British Post Office, provided vital comm...
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    17,15 €

  • The Greatest Sea Survival Stories Ever Told
    Tom McCarthy
    Being aboard a sinking ship is perhaps the most terrifying experience a human being can endure. Imagine those last peaceful moments as the vessel beneath you slides quickly into the dark waters that only moments before you had so confidently glided across.It is as one survivor you will read about in this stunning collection recalled, “a sudden sickening sense of disaster.”Await...
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    17,32 €

  • Wyatt Earp
    Trish Burgess
    Why a book about a ship called Wyatt Earp? The year 2019 marked the 100th anniversary since the launch of a solid, wooden ship built in 1918–1919 in Molde, Norway. At the time she was named M/S Fanefjord (Motorskip/Motorship). She was not built as a fishing vessel, as many have claimed, but as a useful coastal trading ship—an all-rounder! Initially carrying cargo from Norway to...
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    28,13 €

  • The Poor Rogues Hang
    Thomas Tyrrell
    'Now gather round and lend an ear / for there's a ballad I would sing'Of famous Captain Avery / And how he went a-pirating.'Brave, anarchic folk heroes or cruel, black-hearted villains? In the long violent history of piracy, the men and women who roamed the oceans under the black flag have been both of these and all shades of chivalry and chicanery in between.No...
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    7,21 €

  • Maritime Dynasty
    Iolo Griffiths
    The story, covering more than a century, of three generations of the Griffiths family of Nefyn, Gwynedd, North Wales, who went to sea. The story begins with the small Llyn port of Porthdinllaen, which at one time had more master mariners per square inch than anywhere else in the United Kingdom. By the end of the 19th century the family moved to the growing major port of Liverpo...
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    10,47 €

  • Boston Harbor
    Eric Wiberg
    This book aims to be unusual; there is very little text, as the images are meant to be self-explanatory. Themes such as weather, geography, wind, snow, rain, fog and dark all become characters of sorts, as do the vessels themselves. Often the vessels being photographed are difficult to distinguish against the buildings and maritime clutter. That is intentional; these different ...
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    25,94 €

  • Chasing the Bounty
    Donald A. Maxton
    Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked the voyages of H.M.S. Pandora--dispatched to track down the mutineers and return them to England for court-martial--and the Matavy, a schooner built by the mutineers in Tahiti. This is the first book to include eyewitness accounts from five men who endured the...
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    57,55 €

  • MV Hughes Glomar Explorer
    Mark H. Glissmeyer / Mark HGlissmeyer
      In March of 1968 a Soviet submarine was lost with all hands 16,500 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. In 1974 portions of the submarine were brought to the surface using a covert recovery system designed specifically for the mission.  The story of the more than six years intervening is the story of Project AZORIAN, that is, the story of the MV Hughes Glomar Explorer...
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    16,31 €

  • Jean M’Barai The Trepang Fisherman
    Georges Baudoux / TBD / Karin Speedy
    Between 1860 and 1910, over 60,000 Pacific South sea islanders were lured from their villages: tricked, transported, forced to work in the harsh queensland bush, and then repatriated. In Jean M’Baraï, The trepang fisherman (first published In french in 1919) Georges Baudoux tells their story.Translated by Dr Karin Speedy and published here in English for the first time, this bo...
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    28,25 €

  • The Fight for Tom Cod
    Geoff Benton
    The island of Newfoundland and its fishery helped start the American Revolution and were a major sticking point in ending the war. In between, the island proved to be a source of men for the British army and navy, but also a drain on supplies. For the Americans Newfoundland and its fishing grounds were a place where the nascent navy and swashbuckling privateers could carry the ...
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    14,29 €

  • Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest
    Maritime Archaeological Society
    Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest investigates some of the most compelling historic shipwrecks—from the infamous to the nearly forgotten. Explore a handful of these vessels, fated to have their final resting place along 150 miles of the rugged Northw...
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    22,62 €

  • Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks
    James D. Charlet / James DCharlet
    More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama and heroics along these picturesque beaches. Men have lost their lives and fortunes, and heroes have been made where the combination of mixing currents, treacherous coastline and shifting underwater sandbars spells disaster for even the most seasoned ...
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    22,32 €


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