Maritime History & Piracy
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The Lake Michigan Car Ferry Badger
$24.99 Read moreThe iconic Lake Michigan car ferry Badger has been providing reliable service between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, since its maiden voyage on March 21, 1953. Originally built as an i… [more below]
- Series: Arcadia Publishing
- Author: Chavez, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109363
- Language: English
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The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War
$29.95 Read moreWINNER of the Journal of American Revolution’s Book of the Year for 2023!
In 1785, just a few years after U.S. Independence, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carrie
- Author: Ekin, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888630
- Language: English
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Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay: The Coast Guard’s War on Rumrunners
$23.99 Read moreDuring World War I and World War II, Rhode Island was dotted with coastal forts filled with large caliber guns. Yet they were never fired in anger. By contrast, from 1929 to 1933, during Prohibition, … [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: McBurney, Christian M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149683
- Language: English
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Rise of the Cajun Mariners: The Race for Big Oil
$19.99 Read moreThe story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires.
Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history–the beginnings of- Author: Falgoux, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1510769900
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph
$21.99 Read moreFrom the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 to the grounding of the Eldia in 1984, Cape Cod’s outer beach–often referred to as the Graveyard of Ships–saw the demise of more than three thousand vessel… [more below]
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Wilding, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1467147192
- Language: English
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The Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean
$23.99 Read moreIn 1717, the Council of Trade and Plantations received “agreeable news” from New England. “Bellamy with his ship and Company” had perished on the shoals of Cape Cod. Who was this Bellamy and why did h
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Goodall, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151203
- Language: English
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Dark Nights, Deadly Waters: American PT Boats at Guadalcanal
$32.95 Add to cartEighty feet long, built of layered mahogany and powered by three monstrous 1500-horsepower V-12 engines, the US Navy’s Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats screamed across the water at over forty knots. They wer
- Author: Lloyd, Keith Warren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072064
- 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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Exploring Maritime Washington: A History and Guide
$23.99 Read moreAn authoritative guide to Washington’s nautical heritage.
Discover the popular destinations and hidden gems along Washington’s coastline, from the Mukilteo Lighthouse to the Wedding Rocks petroglyphs… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Ebel, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467150576
- 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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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal.
On December 10, 1
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063338068
- Language: English
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Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica
$32.95 Read moreThe Mayflower II–the replica of the 1620 ship that brought the Pilgrims to America and launched a nation–is seen by some 2.6 million visitors to Plymouth annually and listed on the National Register
- Author: Stone, Richard A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084364
- 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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Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$40.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill’s fears were well-placed-the casualty
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190495855
- Language: English
