Maritime history books

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The Journal of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp: Anno 1639

The Journal of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp: Anno 1639...

Author: C. R. Boxer
ISBN: 9781107536838
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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Stone Age Sailors: Paleolithic Seafaring in the Mediterranean

Stone Age Sailors: Paleolithic Seafaring in the Mediterranean...

Author: Alan H Simmons ,  Katelyn DiBenedetto
ISBN: 9781611321159
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Alan Simmons summarizes and synthesizes the evidence for prehistoric seafaring and island habitation in the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

Sailors on the Rocks

Sailors on the Rocks

Author: Stephen C. Smith ,  Peter C. Smith
ISBN: 9781783400621
Format: Hardback
$80.00

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American Sea Power and the Obsolescence of Capital Ship Theory

American Sea Power and the Obsolescence of Capital Ship...

Author: R.B. Watts
ISBN: 9780786498796
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Taranto 1940: The Fleet Air Arm’s precursor to Pearl Harbor

Taranto 1940: The Fleet Air Arm’s precursor to Pearl...

Author: Angus Konstam ,  Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781472808967
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Royal Navy's attack on Taranto in 1940 heralded a new age of warfare. It was the decisive moment in a struggle...  Read More >>

Shipping and the American War 1775-83: A Study of British Transport Organization

Shipping and the American War 1775-83: A Study of British...

Author: David Syrett (Late of City University of New York, US)
ISBN: 9781474241335
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Showing the complex interaction of strategy, logistics, administration, and economics, Syrett’s pioneering text...  Read More >>

Commemorating the Seafarer: Monuments, Memorials and Memory

Commemorating the Seafarer: Monuments, Memorials and...

Author: Barbara Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781843839705
Format: Hardback
$129.38

A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them....  Read More >>

Titanic: The Sinking of The Titanic

Titanic: The Sinking of The Titanic

Author: Patrick Auerbach
ISBN: 9781522776604
Format: Paperback
$35.98

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Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860: Shipboard Life, Unrest and Mutiny

Lascars and Indian Ocean Seafaring, 1780-1860: Shipboard...

Author: Aaron Jaffer (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781783270385
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life....  Read More >>

Dun Laoghaire Holyhead 1826 - 2015: The Rise and Decline of Ireland's Premier Route

Dun Laoghaire Holyhead 1826 - 2015: The Rise and Decline...

Author: Justin Merrigan
ISBN: 9781906608828
Format: Hardback
$50.46

In February 2015, just short of its 200th anniversary Stenna Line withdrew their link to Holyhead. The book covers...  Read More >>

Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations: A Memoir and History

Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations: A Memoir...

Author: Bernie Webber ,  Michael Tougias
ISBN: 9781627340625
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat Stations is part history book, part memoir, written by Bernie Webber, recipient...  Read More >>

Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations: A Memoir and History

Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations: A Memoir...

Author: Bernie Webber ,  Michael Tougias
ISBN: 9781627341301
Format: Hardback
$107.02

Bernie Webber, hero of Disney movie, The Finest Hours and bestselling book Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat...  Read More >>

Marine Insurance: Origins and Institutions, 1300-1850

Marine Insurance: Origins and Institutions, 1300-1850...

Author: Adrian Leonard
ISBN: 9781137411372
Format: Hardback
$448.77

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Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex - Illustrated - NARRATIVE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINAR: Original News Stories of Whale Attacks & Cannabilism

Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex - Illustrated - NARRATIVE...

Author: Thomas Nickerson ,  Ken Rossignol
ISBN: 9781519647191
Format: Paperback
$40.13

In one of the most spellbinding accounts of men who go down to the sea in ships, the modern reader is given a seat...  Read More >>

Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex: The true story that inspired the film In the Heart of the Sea

Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex: The true story that...

Author: Owen Chase
ISBN: 9781784871260
Format: Paperback
$25.85

DON'T MISS THE MAJOR FILM INSPIRED BY CHASE'S NARRATIVE, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA On 20 November 1820, just south...  Read More >>

Heraldry of the Oceans: The Garb of the Merchant Seafarer

Heraldry of the Oceans: The Garb of the Merchant Seafarer...

Author: Alastair Arnott
ISBN: 9780752493411
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Throughout history, Britain's merchant seafarers have formed a mighty force, explanding throughout the nineteenth...  Read More >>

In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick ,  Scott Brick
ISBN: 9781489055743
Format: Audio
$49.11

The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of...  Read More >>

In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick ,  Scott Brick
ISBN: 9781489055736
Format: Audio
$56.87

The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of...  Read More >>

Horatio Nelson: pocket GIANTS

Horatio Nelson: pocket GIANTS

Author: Peter Warwick
ISBN: 9780750962667
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Why is Nelson a hero? Because he was a captain before he was 21, a man who shaped the course of history from the...  Read More >>

The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia

The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia...

Author: Bill Hayton
ISBN: 9780300216943
Format: Paperback
$28.95

A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent...  Read More >>

Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires,...

Author: Rebekah Higgitt ,  Richard Dunn
ISBN: 9781137520630
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role...  Read More >>

Great South Land

Great South Land

Author: Rob Mundle ,  Paul English
ISBN: 9781489056061
Format: Audio
$49.11

How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of...  Read More >>

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