Maritime History & Piracy
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Titanic, First Accounts: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartFascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic–in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover art
The Titanic, First Accounts graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and let- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106627
- Language: English
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Into Enemy Waters: A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy Seals
$24.00 Add to cartWith echoes of Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged comradery of Band of Brothers, this is the World War II story of 95-year-old veteran Geo… [more below]
- Author: Dubbins, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1635768489
- 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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Stories from the Wreckage: A Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks
$29.95 Add to cartEvery shipwreck has a story that extends far beyond its tragic end. The dramatic tales of disaster, heroism, and folly become even more compelling when viewed as junction points in history–connecting… [more below]
- Author: Jensen, John Odin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0870209027
- Language: English
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The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartThe Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, takin
- Author: Chang, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639648
- 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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The Curse of the Somers: The Secret History Behind the U.S. Navy’s Most Infamous Mutiny
$28.99 Add to cartA detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy’s greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact
The greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Re- Author: Delgado, James P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197575226
- Language: English
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Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Book on Black History, Gift for Women, African American History, and for Readers of Titan
$16.95 Add to cartWho was Joseph Laroche, the only black passenger on board the Titanic? Where was he going? How did he end up on the ship? It’s a story never before told. The Only Black Man on the Titanic is definitel… [more below]
- Author: Bile, Serge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 163353958X
- 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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Crash Boat: Rescue and Peril in the Pacific During World War II
$31.58 Add to cartThe compelling story of an American crash boat crewed by unknown heroes during World War II in the South Pacific, whose dramatic rescues of downed pilots and clandestine missions off Japanese-held isl
- Author: Jepson, George D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072358
- Language: English
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The Columbia River
$23.99 Read moreThe Columbia River is the dominant river system of the Northwest United States. It is a river of many uses–hydropower, fisheries, and irrigation–and was known by many names–Columbia’s River, the Bi… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Harrison, John a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1467107689
- Language: English
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
$19.00 Add to cartThe final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321875
- 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
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Lost Texas Treasure: Sunken Ships, Rawhide Maps and Buried Plunder
$34.99 Add to cartTrack pirate gold and misplaced riches across 168 counties in this comprehensive guide to the lost treasures of Texas.
Countless fortunes have disappeared into the vast expanse of the Lone Star State.
- Author: Gaines, W. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252817
- Language: English
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The Foghorn’s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
$19.99 Add to cart‘A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea’ Brian Eno
‘As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests’ John- Author: Allan, Jennifer Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 147461504X
- Language: English
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Guardians of the Manitou Passage: A Chronicle of Service to Lake Michigan Mariners, 1840-1915
$19.95 Add to cartVoices heard from the dark water: “There’s hope! I think I see a flare! Help will be on the way! Lifesavers are on the shore! Our creaking old schooner will be saved, and we will not drown in the icy
- Author: Hawley, Jonathan P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1954786492
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History
$19.99 Add to cartA thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.
In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was- Series: Brief Histories
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1849016895
- Language: English
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Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast
$18.95 Add to cartThey were bold, arrogant, brutal. They strode the rolling deck of a ship more easily than the tame streets of a town. They were wealthy–some beyond the wildest dreams of the governors and kings who f
- Author: Roberts, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 21 1993
- ISBN10: 194946718X
- Language: English
