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The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates...

Author: Peter T. Leeson
ISBN: 9780691150093
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling...  Read More >>

The Best Book of Shipwreck Tales

The Best Book of Shipwreck Tales

Author: Ned Middleton ,  Rico Oldfield
ISBN: 9781853981661
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Award-winning author Ned Middleton has compiled in this first volume, ten of the most exciting shipwreck tales of...  Read More >>

Titanic Hero: The Autobiography of Captain Rostron of the Carpathia

Titanic Hero: The Autobiography of Captain Rostron of...

Author: Sir Arthur H. Rostron
ISBN: 9781445604206
Format: Paperback
$56.90

The story of the Titanic in the words of the hero whose swift action saved the lives of 710 survivors.  Read More >>

People'S Liberation Army Navy: Combat System Technology, 1949–2010

People'S Liberation Army Navy: Combat System Technology,...

Author: Jim Bussert ,  Bruce A. Elleman
ISBN: 9781591140801
Format: Hardback
$97.55

Rare among books on weapon systems technologies, this work traces China's development from a coastal defense force...  Read More >>

Darwin'S Submarine I-124: The Story of a Covert Japanese Squadron Waging a Secret Underwater War Against Northern Australia

Darwin'S Submarine I-124: The Story of a Covert Japanese...

Author: Tom Lewis ,  Peter Ingman
ISBN: 9780957735194
Format: Paperback
$51.62

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Plunder & Pillage: Atlantic Canada's Brutal & Bloodthirsty Pirates & Privateers

Plunder & Pillage: Atlantic Canada's Brutal & Bloodthirsty...

Author: Harold Horwood
ISBN: 9780887809491
Format: Paperback
$44.99

For over three hundred years, lawlessness in Canada flourished off Canada's east coast. Pirates roamed the North...  Read More >>

Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of the Atlantic

Author: Marc Milner
ISBN: 9780752461878
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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New Cunard Queens: Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth

New Cunard Queens: Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and...

Author: Nils Schwerdtner
ISBN: 9781848321069
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Real Cruel Sea

Real Cruel Sea

Author: Richard Woodman
ISBN: 9781848844155
Format: Paperback
$86.99

""First published in Great Britain in 2004 by John Murray""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

Poxed and Scurvied: the Story of Sickness & Health at Sea

Poxed and Scurvied: the Story of Sickness & Health at...

Author: Kevin Brown
ISBN: 9781848320635
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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Deterrence through Strength: British Naval Power and Foreign Policy under Pax Britannica

Deterrence through Strength: British Naval Power and...

Author: Rebecca Berens Matzke
ISBN: 9780803235144
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Reveals how Britain's diplomatic and naval authority in the early Victorian period was not circumstantial but rather...  Read More >>

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 4

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph...

Author: Neil Chambers
ISBN: 9781851968381
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed...  Read More >>

WARSHIP 2011

WARSHIP 2011

Author: John Jordan ,  Stephen Dent
ISBN: 9781844861330
Format: Hardback
$150.35

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Queen Mary 2

Queen Mary 2

Author: Miles Cowsill
ISBN: 9781906608323
Format: Paperback
$41.40

Covers the development, construction and the history of this famous cruise liner built in France. It is illustrated...  Read More >>

British Naval Aviation: The First 100 Years

British Naval Aviation: The First 100 Years

Author: Tim Benbow ,  Dr. Tim Benbow
ISBN: 9781409406129
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The American Discovery of Europe

The American Discovery of Europe

Author: Jack D. Forbes
ISBN: 9780252078361
Format: Paperback
$64.99

An independent and indigenous revision of established history  Read More >>

A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean: Volume 4, To the Year 1723, Including a History of The Buccaneers of America

A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South...

Author: James Burney
ISBN: 9780511783746
Format: Undefined
$224.40

James Burney (1750–1821) was an accomplished sailor best known for this monumental compilation of summaries of European...  Read More >>

The Voyage of the Prince Albert in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Narrative of Every-Day Life in the Arctic Seas

The Voyage of the Prince Albert in Search of Sir John...

Author: William Parker Snow
ISBN: 9780511736384
Format: Undefined
$224.40

William Parker Snow (1817–1895) was a sailor and writer who served as second in command on Lady Franklin's first...  Read More >>

A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean: Volume 5, To the Year 1764

A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South...

Author: James Burney
ISBN: 9780511783753
Format: Undefined
$224.40

James Burney (1750–1821) was an accomplished sailor best known for this monumental compilation of summaries of European...  Read More >>

Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents in which his Career is Recorded

Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents in...

Author: George Michael Asher
ISBN: 9780511697005
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early...  Read More >>

History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810

History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea from...

Author: Yung-Lun Yüan ,  Karl Friedrich Neumann
ISBN: 9780511996610
Format: Undefined
$224.40

The English translation of a vivid and action-packed Chinese account of the scourge of murderous thieves and bandits....  Read More >>

Commanders of Dutch East India Ships in the Eighteenth Century

Commanders of Dutch East India Ships in the Eighteenth...

Author: Jaap R. Bruijn
ISBN: 9781843836223
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Provides a detailed picture of the lives of the commanders and those around them, both at home and at sea.  Read More >>

Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America

Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition...

Author: James Pritchard ,  James Pritchard
ISBN: 9780773538740
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A compelling account of one of the most ambitious and catastrophic French naval expeditions in the eighteenth century....  Read More >>

Eastern Indian Ocean: Historical Links to Contemporary Convergences

Eastern Indian Ocean: Historical Links to Contemporary...

Author: Lipi Ghosh
ISBN: 9781443828406
Format: Hardback
$103.47

The Indian Ocean has attracted scholarly attention through ages. As we talk of inter-Asian linkages and inter-regional...  Read More >>

Pedro Gorino: an Autobiographical Narrative

Pedro Gorino: an Autobiographical Narrative

Author: Harry Dean ,  Sterling Lecater Bland
ISBN: 9781594161353
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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