Maritime history books

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The Boyne Currach: from Beneath the Shadows of Newgrange

The Boyne Currach: from Beneath the Shadows of Newgrange...

Author: Claidhbh O Gibne
ISBN: 9781846823794
Format: Paperback
$25.75

This book tells the fascinating story of a much-used vessel with prehistoric origins: the currach. Well-informed...  Read More >>

Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America

Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Jason Berger
ISBN: 9780816677078
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the...  Read More >>

In Titanic's Shadow: The World's Worst Merchant Ship Disasters

In Titanic's Shadow: The World's Worst Merchant Ship...

Author: David L. Williams
ISBN: 9780752471228
Format: Paperback
$42.99

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Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and...

Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
ISBN: 9780007321667
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, ‘Titanic Lives’ is a fresh investigation of the lives of the passengers...  Read More >>

The Glorious First of June: Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror

The Glorious First of June: Fleet Battle in the Reign...

Author: Sam Willis
ISBN: 9781849160391
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain: Stories from My Twenty Years in South Carolina Maritime Archaeology

The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain: Stories from...

Author: Carl Naylor
ISBN: 9781611171426
Format: Paperback
$35.20

Naylor's narrative serves as an authoritative personal account of South Carolina's ongoing efforts to discover and...  Read More >>

Haida: A Story of the Hard Fighting Tribal Class Destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy on the Murmansk Convoy, the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

Haida: A Story of the Hard Fighting Tribal Class Destroyers...

Author: William Sclater ,  Ted Barris
ISBN: 9780195447934
Format: Paperback
$37.95

An action-packed, first-hand account of Canada's most famous naval warship and her exploits during the Second World...  Read More >>

A Voyage towards the South Pole: Performed in the Years 1822–24: Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego

A Voyage towards the South Pole: Performed in the Years...

Author: James Weddell
ISBN: 9781139151689
Format: Undefined
$224.40

James Weddell (1787–1834) led several voyages towards the Antarctic. This 1825 publication includes an important...  Read More >>

The Civil War at Sea

The Civil War at Sea

Author: Craig L. Symonds (Professor of History Emeritus, Professor of History Emeritus, U.S. Naval Academy)
ISBN: 9780199931682
Format: Paperback
$84.45

Lincoln Prize-winning author Craig L. Symonds offers an authoritative history of the Civil War navies and considers...  Read More >>

RMS Queen Mary: Classic Liners

RMS Queen Mary: Classic Liners

Author: Andrew Britton
ISBN: 9780752479521
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Socialism and Print Culture in America, 1897–1920

Socialism and Print Culture in America, 1897–1920

Author: Jason D Martinek
ISBN: 9781848933347
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Sunk in Kula Gulf: The Final Voyage of the USS Helena and the Incredible Story of Her Survivors in World War II

Sunk in Kula Gulf: The Final Voyage of the USS Helena...

Author: John J. Domagalski
ISBN: 9781597978392
Format: Hardback
$86.99

The early morning hours of July 6, 1943, found the USS Helena in what would later be known as the Battle of Kula...  Read More >>

Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks

Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks...

Author: J. Richard Steffy
ISBN: 9781603445207
Format: Paperback
$158.40

This comprehensive volume details the complex art of wooden shipbuilding in ancient and early modern times. The...  Read More >>

The Atlantic in World History

The Atlantic in World History

Author: Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Silver Professor of History, Silver Professor of History, New York University, New York, NY, US)
ISBN: 9780195160741
Format: Hardback
$297.00

As Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then...  Read More >>

Captain Scott: Journey to the South Pole: Band 08/Purple

Captain Scott: Journey to the South Pole: Band 08/Purple...

Author: Adrian Bradbury ,  Kate Evans
ISBN: 9780007461998
Format: Paperback
$17.47

One hundred years ago, Captain Scott, naval officer and explorer wanted to be the first person to reach the South...  Read More >>

Batavia

Batavia

Author: Peter FitzSimons
ISBN: 9781864711349
Format: Paperback
$34.99

It is no surprise that the barbarity and evil that came in the wake of the wreck of the Batavia has inspired books,...  Read More >>

German Naval Strategy, 1856-1888: Forerunners to Tirpitz

German Naval Strategy, 1856-1888: Forerunners to Tirpitz...

Author: David H. Olivier
ISBN: 9780415647984
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon. Anthony Lockwood RN

Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous...

Author: Peter Thomas ,  Dr Nicholas Tracy
ISBN: 9781848321212
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Anthony Lockwood's story is at the heart of the Georgian Navy though the man himself has never taken centre stage...  Read More >>

Live Bait Squadron: Three Mass Graves Off the Dutch Coast, 22 September 1914

Live Bait Squadron: Three Mass Graves Off the Dutch...

Author: Henk van der Linden
ISBN: 9789461532602
Format: Paperback
$51.62

On 22 September 1914 between 6.20am and 7.55am three British cruisers went down off the Dutch coast, HMS Aboukir,...  Read More >>

The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution

The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve...

Author: William R. Ryan (has taught colonial American history at Duke University and North Carolina State University)
ISBN: 9780199922871
Format: Paperback
$83.95

On August 18, 1775 a black man was hanged and burned to oblivion. For nearly 235 years, the man and his story have...  Read More >>

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