Aviation & Nautical
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Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the Us Aerobatic Team
$16.99 Read moreThe daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by
- Author: Aragon, Cecilia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1665088087
- Language: English
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Nightmare on the Scottie: The Maiden Voyage of a Doomed King Crabber
$18.95 Read moreAlthough Mobile, Alabama’s Bender Shipyard built shrimp boats and oil rig supply vessels for the Gulf of Mexico, until they finished the Scottie in December 1969, they had never constructed a vessel d
- Author: Orsini, Stephen D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640009
- 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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The Disappearing ACT: The Impossible Case of Mh370
$16.99 Read more‘People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does… This is a splendid book – and highly recommended.’ Daily Mail
A remarkable piece of investiga
- Author: De Changy, Florence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0008381550
- Language: English
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The Heroes We Needed: The B-29ers Who Ended World War II and My Fight to Save the Forgotten Stories of the Greatest Generation
$37.95 Add to cartDuring World War II, there were many ways that a B-29er could be killed: a ruthless enemy, the savage weather, an unforgiving ocean that stretched for thousands of miles, or the faulty engines of thei… [more below]
- Author: McIntyre, Trevor B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 180451165X
- Language: English
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Nightstalkers: The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II
$44.95 Read more“This story of the Wright Project comprehensively captures an important but under-appreciated element of airpower history…” — Lieutenant General Bruce “Orville” Wright, USAF (ret)
In August 1943, a … [more below]
- Author: Lawless, Richard Phillip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242057
- 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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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
$19.99 Add to cart“As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness.” ― Sunday Times
Th
- Author: Bound, Mensun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063297418
- 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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The First Fighter Pilot – Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat
$29.95 Add to cartRoland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it at Versailles. He was a world-class athlete, a lawyer
- Author: Cobleigh, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1629671576
- Language: English
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Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines
$29.99 Read moreLate in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refug… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Charles E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 168451262X
- 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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Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O’Hare
$26.95 Add to cartFighter pilot Butch O’Hare became one of America’s heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascin… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Lundstrom, John B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: April 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1591142490
- Language: English
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Fair Winds, Following Seas, and a Few Bolters: My Navy Years
$27.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: December 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1646638522
- 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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Saint-Exupery: A Biography
$36.99 Add to cartFrom a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exup?y disappeared at age forty-four during a reco- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0805079130
- Language: English
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Up in the Air: The Real Story of Life Aboard the World’s Most Glamorous Airline
$14.95 Add to cartAlthough this is a book about life as a flight attendant with the world’s most iconic and glamorous airline, Pan American World Airways, it is not just a chronology of airborne events. Instead it begi
- Author: Riegel, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1734413107
- Language: English
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Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight
$19.95 Add to cartGlenn Curtiss (1878-1930) was a self-taught aeronautical engineer, a self–made industrialist, and one of the first airplane pilots, the model for “Tom Swift.” C. R. Roseberry’s biography begins with
- Author: Roseberry, C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0815602642
- Language: English
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
$17.99 Add to cartAuthor Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering.
Steller was one of Europe’s f
- Author: Ford, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 088240394X
- 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
