Aviation & Nautical
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The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$7.95 Add to cartThe Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex recounts one of the greatest real-life sea adventures of all time. This faithful Warbler Classics edition reproduces First Mate Owen Chase’s riveting original 1821… [more below]
- Author: Chase, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: July 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1957240717
- Language: English
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Slaying Snakes in the Cockpit: Life Lessons from an Unlikely Astronaut
$24.95 Add to cartIn Slaying Snakes in the Cockpit, Susan Kilrain takes readers on a gripping and inspiring journey through the trials that shaped her extraordinary career. From the relentless demands of aerospace engi
- Author: Kilrain, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1960259539
- Language: English
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Titan Unfinished: An Untold Story of Exploration, Innovation, and the Oceangate Tragedy
$32.00 Add to cartA firsthand, never-before-told account of the creation of OceanGate, the heartbreaking Titan tragedy and the supposed villain behind it all, Stockton Rush, as told by the only person who can: his cofo… [more below]
- Author: Söhnlein, Guillermo A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1637747675
- Language: English
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Queen of the Skies: The Inspiring Story of Bessie Coleman
$24.99 Add to cartBefore our beloved aviators, like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh soared into our hearts, there was Bessie Coleman. Bessie Coleman was the first African American and Native American woman to rece
- Author: Powell, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1961600420
- Language: English
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Eugene Ely: Pioneer of Naval Aviation
$35.00 Read moreThe story of Eugene Ely’s life is the stuff of myth and legend. Much of what has been written about him relies on sensationalized newspaper accounts from an era when early twentieth century reporters … [more below]
- Author: Zobel, John H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682478378
- Language: English
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Highway to the Sky: An Aviator’s Journey
$18.99 Read moreWith females making up just 5% of the world’s pilots, this memoir crosses genres to combine aviation history, the author’s journey from unwanted child to successful pilot, and the feminist experience,… [more below]
- Author: Reid Allin, Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1647428009
- Language: English
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One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
$39.95 Add to cartShortly before embarking on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe, Amelia Earhart confided to a friend, “I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this t… [more below]
- Author: Gillespie, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1682479382
- Language: English
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Mac: The Wind Beneath My Wings
$23.95 Add to cart“This book is a triumph.” –MJV Literary
When Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, forcing the U.S. to enter WWII, MAC was 23 years old.
He had graduated with honors from high school, served two
- Author: Hobbs, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1685132413
- Language: English
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Fair Winds, Following Seas, and a Few Bolters: My Navy Years
$17.95 Add to cartFrom rural Michigan through Georgia Tech, Aviation Officer Candidate School, flight training, two Western Pacific cruises, and as an instructor pilot, Lt. McKenna met and overcame multiple obstacles i
- Author: McKenna, Stephen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: December 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1646638506
- Language: English
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Oh Yeah? Watch This!: A Retired Rear Admiral’s Journey from the Valleys to the Mountaintops
$29.99 Add to cartTo anyone who believes that making it to the mountaintop is an impossible dream, here is the author’s challenge: “Oh, Yeah? Watch This!” In his intriguing memoir, Lloyd Edward “Ed” Allen Jr., a retire
- Author: Allen, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1642259446
- Language: English
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Wager with the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story
$20.00 Add to cartDon Sheldon has been called ‘Alaska’s bush pilot among bush pilots’, but he was also just one man in a fragile airplane who, in the end, was solely responsible for each mission he flew, be it a high-r
- Author: Greiner, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 1982
- ISBN10: 0312853378
- Language: English
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The Hand: A Helicopter Pilot’s Story of the Vietnam War
$27.95 Add to cartWe were like the “Lafayette Escadrille” flying our aircraft with precision and cunning like the World War I volunteer pilots, scarves around our necks, looking for a chance to even the score for that … [more below]
- Author: Sain, W. Lewis, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887516080
- Language: English
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Young Men Go North
$19.95 Add to cart“I went up on the Star of Alaska in 1918.” It was 1965 and an old timer was spinning a tale for 18-year-old Joe Upton. Of sailing up from San Francisco to Alaska’s remote and austere Bristol Bay aboar… [more below]
- Author: Upton, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1684920493
- Language: English
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The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
$18.99 Add to cartAn immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as “an honest and touching book, and a hell of a s… [more below]
- Author: Fairbanks, Amanda M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103248
- Language: English
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Air Born: Two Generations in Flight
$29.99 Add to cartTwo aviators making history. Two Americans serving their country. One incredible story spanning fifty years and two generations.
Ben Smotherman, a B-17 pilot in World War II, valiantly fought in the- Author: Davis, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1955026769
- Language: English
