Maritime History & Piracy
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Ship of Lost Souls: The Tragic Wreck of the Steamship Valencia
$32.95 Add to cartOf all the stories of ships lost in what has come to be called the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” that of the steamship Valencia is among the saddest. In January 1906, the Valencia set out from San Franc
- Author: Scher, Rod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493081357
- Language: English
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Endurance: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Legendary Ship
$50.00 Add to cartThis is the amazing story in words and images of the historic discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, deep beneath the ice of Antarctica.
In March 2022, an international polar expedit- Author: Shears, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1426223838
- Language: English
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Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
$35.00 Add to cartA magisterial cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, ranging from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens to the story of shipbuilding, navigation, marit… [more below]
- Author: Haywood, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367667
- Language: English
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The Art of Naval Portraiture
$45.00 Read morePortraiture has long been an important tool for creating, supporting and challenging notions of identity. This book will explore individual and collective identities within naval portraiture and how t… [more below]
- Author: Gazzard, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1739154207
- Language: English
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Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: The Untold Story from the Journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts
$34.95 Read moreMaritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary, little-known journals from Captain James Cook’s third exploratory voyage. They offer remarkable eyewitness accounts at
- Author: Barnett, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223571
- Language: English
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Ships and Men of the Great Lakes
$14.95 Add to cartShips and men of the Great Lakes spans more than a century of Great Lakes history in a series of true, thoroughly documented dramas, most of them describing the misadventures of vessels and the men wh… [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Dwight
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0912514515
- Language: English
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A Whaler at Twilight: A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific
$38.95 Add to cartNestled at the bottom of an old leather trunk for well over a century lay a forgotten manuscript–a long-lost story the author’s great-great-grandson has now brought to life. At the heart of A Whaler
- Author: Brash, Alexander R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074768
- Language: English
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Olympic Titanic Britannic: The Anatomy and Evolution of the Olympic Class
$38.00 Read moreThe Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons.
The Olympic Class liners were conceived as the largest, grandest ships ever to se- Author: Mills, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1472988655
- Language: English
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Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
$28.00 Read moreFrom the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic
On a frigid April night in 1912, the- Author: Stone, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0593329376
- Language: English
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Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy
$29.95 Add to cartA masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire.
The pirates that exist in our- Author: Blakemore, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366334
- Language: English
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The Last Days of the Schooner America: A Lost Icon at the Annapolis Warship Factory
$34.95 Add to cartThe schooner America was a technological marvel and a child star. In the summer of 1851, just weeks after her launching at New York, she crossed the Atlantic and sailed to an upset victory against a f
- Author: Gendell, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084445
- Language: English
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Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920
$40.95 Add to cartThe “Jones Act” is the most newsworthy U.S. maritime policy law.
Most of the attention is focused on the preservation of U.S. domestic maritime trade. Some is focused on the law as a means for mariners… [more below]
- Author: Papavizas, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 634
- Publish Date: April 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1962729036
- Language: English
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Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter–which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people
In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltim- Author: Taylor, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0300263996
- Language: English
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The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings
$19.95 Add to cartA documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is … [more below]
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 151790644X
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
$37.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a compl… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593863186
- Language: English
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade
$29.00 Read moreA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.
The most feared ship in B- Author: Rooks, A. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128267
- Language: English
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Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy
$18.99 Add to cart“A dramatic tale. . . . Sherry brings the pirates vividly to life with his rousing telling of their daring cruises and outrageous feats. . . . I heartily recommend Raiders and Rebels to anyone who enj
- Author: Sherry, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061572845
- Language: English
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Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
$18.95 Add to cartFor 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
- Author: Simon, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1642503371
- Language: English
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The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship
$22.95 Add to cartTwo days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. … [more below]
- Series: Seafaring America
- Author: Farinelli, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1611687055
- Language: English
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Navigation: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is f… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bennett, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198733712
- Language: English
