Aviation & Nautical
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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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The View from Split Rock: A Lighthouse Keeper’s Life
$19.95 Add to cartSplit Rock Lighthouse is a Minnesota icon: a handsome structure perched atop a cliff on Lake Superior’s North Shore, gorgeous in every weather, a lonely outpost overlooking the vastness of the lake. E… [more below]
- Author: Radzak, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1681341808
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
$29.99 Add to cartIn Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin–“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)–tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel,
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093080
- 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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My Aviation Journey: From a Childhood Dream to an Airline Captain
$27.99 Add to cartAfter graduating from flight college with a Commercial Pilot Licence in 1999, and with only $250 in his wallet, a suitcase, a typewriter, his flight bag and an abundance of grit, Gerard Mofet dove hea… [more below]
- Author: Mofet, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1039148395
- 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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Fly Girl: A Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world–and maybe, one day,
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1324006234
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Fell to Shore: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Thor Tangvald
$19.95 Add to cartBorn at sea aboard his father’s hand-built sailboat and raised barefoot on her wood decks, Thomas Thor Tangvald’s oceanic childhood was full of beauty and wonder-but was also scarred by horrific trage
- Author: Doane, Charles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1957607068
- 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 Naval Academy – A Parent’s Ponderings from Home Port: Untying the Bowline on I-Day
$14.95 Add to cartThis journal catalogs my seven years along the Severn River watching our USNA daughters, (’19) and (’22), become imbued “with the highest ideals of duty, honor, and loyalty.”
Midshipmen accept their Na… [more below]
- Author: Wade, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1682356205
- Language: English
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Full Throttle: From The Blue Angels to Hollywood Stunt Pilot
$29.99 Add to cartWatching Top Gun
Scott Kartvedt watched Top Gun in 1986 just like many other young men but then went on to be a Navy pilot, something many of us just dreamed of. He applied to and was selected to the e
- Author: Kartvedt, Scott Intake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988546030
- Language: English
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Shatter The Sky
$17.99 Add to cartIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Merryl Tengesdal, has become one of the most interesting and compelling maverick women in aviation.
In this inspirational memoir, retired Colonel Merry
- Author: Tengesdal, Merryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: November 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1737907313
- Language: English
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Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon
$34.95 Add to cartOn December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviatio… [more below]
- Author: Gilliland, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640122680
- Language: English
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Airplane Stories and Histories
$10.99 Add to cartAIRPLANE STORIES AND HISTORIES chronicles two hundred years of aviation highlights including the exploits of pioneers such as Sir George Cayley, the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Ame… [more below]
- Author: Currey, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 27 2022
- ISBN10: 9798886150292
- Language: English
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The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
$28.95 Add to cartYears before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competin… [more below]
- Author: Lancaster, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1631496379
- Language: English
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Fly Girl: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world–and maybe, one day,
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050411
- Language: English
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Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
$29.95 Read moreFrom the New York Times: “The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked … [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery.”
Historian Jonathan W. Whi
- Author: White, Jonathan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1538175010
- 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
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
$22.99 Add to cartThis classic history of America’s high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is “a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real” (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2
- Author: Janos, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0316743003
- Language: English
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Completely Mad: Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the Epic Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic
$28.95 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary–and extraordinarily different–adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to… [more below]
- Author: Hansen, James R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 163936417X
- Language: English
