Maritime History & Piracy
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Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story
$99.95 Add to cartAlong the West Coast waterfront and in ship-handling circles around the world, few names are more respected than that of Robert Allan Ltd., the marine architecture firm that has been based in Vancouve
- Author: Allan, Robert G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 155017987X
- Language: English
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The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy
$28.95 Add to cartThe incredible story of the “Robin Hood of the Seas,” who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret.
Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from- Author: Kingsley, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365958
- Language: English
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Blackbeard the Pirate
$18.95 Read moreEdward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the Atlantic coast. He was also one of the most colorful pirates of all time, becoming the model for coun
- Author: Lee, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 1974
- ISBN10: 0895870320
- Language: English
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Lone Voyager: The Extraordinary Adventures of Howard Blackburn Hero Fisherman of Gloucester
$22.95 Add to cartLike countless Gloucester fishermen before and since, Howard Blackburn and Tom Welch were trawling for halibut on the Newfoundland banks in an open dory in 1883 when a sudden blizzard separated them f… [more below]
- Series: Extraordinary Adventures of Howard Blackburn
- Author: Garland, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0684872633
- Language: English
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Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth
$31.99 Add to cartThe story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198861559
- Language: English
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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
$20.99 Add to cart“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathan… [more below]
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1476745986
- Language: English
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The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
$21.95 Add to cart. . . .rich in colourful detail, and displays impressive knowledge of sailing and fighting skills. –Richard Hill, The Naval Review
Accessible to both the general and the more scholarly reader, it will
- Author: Little, Benerson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1574889117
- Language: English
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Songs of Ships & Sailors
$29.95 Add to cartSongs and stories about seafaring have a timeless and universal appeal. These songs, drawn from recordings and archives of Maine singers and collectors, tell powerful stories of sailing, fishing
- Series: Bygone Ballads of Maine #1
- Author: Lane, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1935243799
- Language: English
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Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift
$17.95 Add to cartSaved at the Seawall is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. Jessica DuLong reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered s
- Author: Dulong, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501759124
- Language: English
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The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told
$18.95 Add to cartA first-ever compilation of the most courageous and stunning Coast Guard rescue stories.
The Coast Guard is one of the nation’s five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United St- Series: Greatest
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1493027026
- Language: English
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison A… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190243678
- Language: English
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Never Say P*g: The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions
$18.95 Add to cartThe nautical reference book you never knew you needed: a compendium of all superstitions maritime and marine. Learn your A-B-Seas of sailors’ guiding magic and mythos–and why you should never stir yo
- Author: MacDonald, R. Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1550179799
- Language: English
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Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy
$21.95 Add to cartThe history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn’t been told is the story of whaling’s leaders of color in … [more below]
- Author: Finley, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682478327
- Language: English
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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
$18.95 Add to cartIn this “magnificent compendium” (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing “illuminate[s] the history of America itsel
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492500
- Language: English
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Blackbeard’s Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge
$31.95 Add to cartIn 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne’s Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily … [more below]
- Author: Wilde-Ramsing, Mark U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2018
- ISBN10: 146964052X
- Language: English
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The Wreck of the Portland: A Doomed Ship, a Violent Storm, and New England’s Worst Maritime Disaster
$19.95 Add to cartThe SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as “New England’s Titanic.” The Portland was one of New England… [more below]
- Author: Conway, J. North
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493059467
- Language: English
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Tragedy and Triumph on the Great Lakes
$29.95 Read moreRichard Gebhart traces little-known voyages of Great Lakes ships that sailed the Atlantic beginning in the 1850s. They bore cargoes to and from the lakes and as far as Constantinople. Gebhart recovers… [more below]
- Author: Gebhart, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1611864836
- Language: English
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Today’s The Day! The Mel Fisher Story
$24.95 Add to cartMel Fisher spent over 8,000 days searching to find the $400 million treasure of gold, silver, and rare artifacts from the richest Spanish shipwreck ever recovered, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, but it
- Author: Tucker, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1899694021
- Language: English
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The War of Jenkins’ Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742
$18.95 Add to cartFilled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States–and the entire Western Hemisphere.
In the early 18th cen- Author: Gaudi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362967
- Language: English
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
$19.99 Add to cart“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the Wo
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0062875361
- Language: English
