Maritime history books

The author’s collection of these rare written accounts and interviews sheds new light on the tragic way the lives...  Read More >>

Drawing on new evidence from Tudor poetry in Welsh, a quest for PIERS GRIFFITH, pirate-poet (1568 - 1628) lord of...  Read More >>

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Born 1936 in a market town close to the port of Liverpool and an avid reader of adventure and travel books, the...  Read More >>

In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves...  Read More >>

In 1577 Elizabeth I, last of the Tudor monarchs, sent Francis Drake to lay claim for an English settlement in northwest...  Read More >>

In this volume the concept of complex systems is used to discuss the interplay between social and environmental...  Read More >>

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This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts...  Read More >>

Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents...  Read More >>

William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west...  Read More >>

Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents...  Read More >>

This second volume of William Scoresby's journals contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages in the...  Read More >>

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LUSITANIA R.E.X is an historical account of the sinking of the Lusitania replete with spies and secret societies,...  Read More >>

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In 1914 Great Britain's navy was the largest and most powerful the world had ever seen - but what was the everyday...  Read More >>

Gripping maritime history from below with pirates and escaped slaves.  Read More >>

Launched in 1940, North Carolina was the first U.S. newly built battleship to have taken part in the war in the...  Read More >>

In text and pictures, Morten Gøthche provides a short account of the history of the boat type: eel-drifter (åledrivkvase),...  Read More >>

A superb collection of more than 300 evocative black and white photographs Well-known and respected author Part...  Read More >>

How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches...  Read More >>

Voices from the Carpathia: Rescuing RMS Titanic  Read More >>

'Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. However, by the 1960s new nuclear...  Read More >>

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