Maritime History & Piracy
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Fifty Ships That Changed the Course of History: A Nautical History of the World
$24.95 Read more“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 Add to cartOn 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
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt
$18.00 Add to cart“Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” —The Wall Street Journal
From The New York Times-bestselling- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0735211612
- Language: English
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
$18.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF
- Author: Slade, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0062699873
- Language: English
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The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
$18.99 Add to cartTHE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn’t get any better than this’ BILL BRYSON’A brilliant read … Game of Thrones but in the real world’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ
PICKED A
- Author: Spencer, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0008296847
- Language: English
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
$19.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” – spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s – when l… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496220
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest: Tragedies and Legacies of a Perilous Coast
$42.67 Add to cartSUBMERGED STORIES FROM THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pa… [more below]
- Author: Kozik, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493044532
- Language: English
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Deadly Gamble: The Wreck of Schooner Levin J Marvel, The true story of Chesapeake Bay’s worst sailing disaster
$15.00 Add to cartHurricane Connie wobbled like a drunken pirate toward the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. In the late hours of August 11, 1955, Connie turned inland and began tracking a course up Chesapeake Bay. Here,
- Author: Smith, Kathy Bergren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985347753
- Language: English
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The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet
$14.95 Add to cartAn heir to an established land-owning aristocratic family in Barbados, Major Stede Bonnet enjoyed luxuries equal to those of the finest houses in London. “A Gentleman of good Reputation” and a “Master… [more below]
- Author: Moss, Jeremy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1646631498
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$40.00 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316703613
- Language: English
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
$21.99 Add to cart“A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review
The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.
Ferdinand Magellan’s daring circumnav
- Author: Bergreen, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0062890484
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0385544766
- Language: English
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
$20.00 Add to cartNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.
In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: 5-Dec-23
- ISBN10: 1250871638
- Language: English
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
$27.00 Read moreThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0374610193
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes: Tragedies and Legacies from the Inland Seas
$19.95 Add to cartSubmerged stories from the inland seas
The newest addition to Globe Pequot’s Shipwrecks series covers the sensational wrecks and maritime disasters from each of the five Great Lakes. It is estimated t- Author: Lardinois, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 149305855X
- Language: English
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Eyewitness Titanic
$16.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0744028973
- Language: English
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Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders
$16.99 Add to cartA global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
- Author: Lehr, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273339
- Language: English
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
$22.00 Add to cart“This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”–Patrick O’Brian
” A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-- Author: Cordingly, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 09 2006
- ISBN10: 081297722X
- Language: English
