Maritime history books

This seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 20-volume 1905–7 edition) follows Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations...  Read More >>

Piracy and surreptitious activities in the Malay Archipelago and adjacent seas, 1600-1840  Read More >>

Pirates contributed to the British understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and remote communities....  Read More >>

This book presents a set of images mainly in portrait format rather than the landscape format of most pictorial...  Read More >>

Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating...  Read More >>

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In this work, Buschmann incorporates neglected Spanish visions into the European perceptions of the emerging Pacific...  Read More >>

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While the early modern period has long been recognised as witnessing a growth in trade and consumerism, the majority...  Read More >>

Discusses the many measures taken in this period to improve seamen's health and fitness.  Read More >>

The dominant narratives about the seas and maritime regions in European societies have usually placed them at the...  Read More >>

A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement....  Read More >>

The ultimate story of man versus nature, November's Fury recounts the dramatic events that unfolded over four days...  Read More >>

Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting...  Read More >>

Within hours of the sinking of RMS Lusitania by a German submarine off the Cork coast in May 1915, a narrative was...  Read More >>

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Few Pacific history books have stood the test of time as well as They Came for Sandalwood, but Dorothy Shineberg's...  Read More >>

From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of “high culture” in the...  Read More >>

Alma Caldwell’s diary provides the perspective of teenagers in 1913 and 1914. It begins in the summer of 1913 when...  Read More >>

A vibrant history of how humans first solved the riddle of long-distance navigation, transforming the seas into...  Read More >>

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On 29 October 1914 the hospital ship Rohilla left Queensferry with 234 people on board bound for Dunkirk. Despite...  Read More >>

Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional...  Read More >>

Between 1794 and 1815 the Royal Navy repeatedly crushed her enemies at sea in a period of military dominance that...  Read More >>

Incredible tales of mystery, cannibalism, murder, treachery, madness and revenge at sea  Read More >>