Maritime History & Piracy
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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
$18.99 Add to cartIn the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world’s female buccaneers, Pirate Women tells of the women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside–and sometimes in command of–t… [more below]
- Author: Duncombe, Laura Sook
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1641602228
- Language: English
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
$28.00 Add to cartA monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea–revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how go
- Author: Paine, Lincoln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1101970359
- Language: English
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Florida Pirates: From the Southern Gulf Coast to the Keys and Beyond
$21.99 Add to cartFlorida is largely influenced by the illicit and fascinating activites of pirates. Authors James and Sarah Kaserman recount the stories, legends, and myths of piracy in Florida.
The coast of southwest
- Author: Kaserman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1609494199
- Language: English
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Sailing the Sweetwater Seas: Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940
$45.00 Read moreThe Great Lakes were America’s first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the ships and boats on which the United States, b
- Author: Jepson, George D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072277
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars
$23.99 Add to cartThe story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy.
From the golden age of piracy to
- Author: Goodall, Jamie L. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 146714116X
- Language: English
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The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty: Jazz and the Big Smoke Canoe
$54.99 Add to cartIn 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become the largest excursion riverboat operation serving the Mississippi from St. Paul to Ne
- Author: Smith, Arthur L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218109103
- Language: English
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Rascals in Paradise
$19.00 Add to cartIn a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove… [more below]
- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0812986865
- Language: English
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Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck That Shocked Restoration Britain
$27.95 Read moreA true story of royal intrigue–with famed diarist Samuel Pepys as the main protagonist–as a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain sparks a mystery that now may finally be solved.
In 1- Author: Pickford, Nigel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363203
- Language: English
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To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily str… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1982127260
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars
$31.99 Add to cartThe story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jamie L. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1540242153
- Language: English
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
$45.99 Add to cartFrom the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world’s oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization.
From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, (“Magnificent- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0199934983
- Language: English
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The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914
$35.00 Add to cartIt began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel–in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship … [more below]
- Author: Cothran, Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676559
- Language: English
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Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses
$21.99 Add to cartMichigan has more lighthouses than any other state, with more than 120 dotting its expansive Great Lakes shoreline. Many of these lighthouses lay claim to haunted happenings.
Former keepers like Captai
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Stampfler, Dianna Higgs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1467141992
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Pirates
$20.00 Add to cartReal-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates–both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond–compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masu… [more below]
- Author: Howe, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0143137514
- Language: English
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Captain George Vancouver in Alaska and the North Pacific
$26.95 Add to cartTwo of the Northwest Coast’s largest cities and its most prominent island are named after the British explorer, George Vancouver, who is largely unknown despite his unprecedented five-year voyage duri… [more below]
- Author: Barnett, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1578336732
- Language: English
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Eyewitness Titanic
$9.99 Add to cartBecome an eyewitness to the tragic story of the Titanic – from its incredible construction, catastrophic sinking, and lasting legacy.
Travel back to the year 1912 and experience the Titanic’s fateful … [more below]- Series: DK Eyewitness
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0744039657
- Language: English
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
$32.50 Read moreThe heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vess
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1631498258
- Language: English
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Fifty Ships That Changed the Course of History: A Nautical History of the World
$19.95 Add to cart“This is a beautiful book, replete with illustrations, photos, diagrams, and maps. The text balances technicality with storytelling, scholarly analysis with entertainment. It’s a sweeping, fascinatin
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Graham, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0228103649
- Language: English
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious F
$19.00 Add to cartIn this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of t… [more below]
- Author: Kritzler, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0767919521
- Language: English
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On a Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic
$47.99 Read moreOn the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the… [more below]
- Author: Fitch, Tad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 15 2015
- ISBN10: 144564701X
- Language: English
