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Wooden Ships from Texas: A World War I Saga

Wooden Ships from Texas: A World War I Saga
Author: Richard W. Bricker ISBN: 9780890968277 Format: Hardback	$79.07
Starting in 1916, Texans built seventeen four- and five-masted sailing ships out of East Texas pine, making a significant... Read More >>

Oil and Coffee: Latin American Merchant Shipping from the Imperial Era to the 1950s

Oil and Coffee: Latin American Merchant Shipping from...
Author: Rene De La Pedraja ISBN: 9780313308390 Format: Hardback	$131.00
This book covers the most important events in the emergence of the Latin American shipping industry. Read More >>

In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces

In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime...
Author: Greg Marquis , Greg Marquis ISBN: 9780773517929 Format: Hardback	$250.80
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Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail...
Author: W. Jeffrey Bolster ISBN: 9780674076273 Format: Paperback	$38.95
Aiming to reveal the role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America and how they... Read More >>

Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail

Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail...
Author: Joan Druett ISBN: 9780285634480 Format: Hardback	$60.00
An account of the lives of the wives of nineteenth century sea captains, who were often taken on voyages with their... Read More >>

Trawling: The Rise and Fall of the British Trawl Fishery

Trawling: The Rise and Fall of the British Trawl Fishery...
Author: Robb Robinson (Maritime Historical Studies Centre, The University of Hull (United Kingdom)) ISBN: 9780859896283 Format: Paperback	$89.76
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The Same Wife in Every Port

The Same Wife in Every Port
Author: Suzanne Kyrle-Pope , Sir Reginald Hibbert, GCMG ISBN: 9781841040028 Format: Hardback	$37.52
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Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate

Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
Author: Harry Kelsey ISBN: 9780300071825 Format: Hardback	$158.40
This biography portrays Drake as an amoral privateer for whom great wealth was the mark of success. Kelsey explains... Read More >>

Shipwrecks of Florida: A Comprehensive Listing

Shipwrecks of Florida: A Comprehensive Listing
Author: Steven D Singer ISBN: 9781561641635 Format: Paperback	$57.95
Over 2,100 shipwrecks from the 16th century to the present; the most comprehensive listing now available. Wrecks... Read More >>

The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War

The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American...
Author: David Syrett ISBN: 9781570032387 Format: Hardback	$53.90
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Navies in History

Navies in History
Author: Clark G Reynolds, M.D. ISBN: 9781557507150 Format: Paperback	$57.99
This general history of the world's navies treats all major powers through the ages, from the Minoans in 2000 BC... Read More >>

Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World

Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World
Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee , Lakshmi Subramanian ISBN: 9780195644203 Format: Hardback	$77.50
These essays analyse the relationship between trade and empire, between the Indian Ocean and its ports and between... Read More >>

"""Titanic""": A Survivors Story

"""Titanic""": A Survivors Story
Author: Archibald Gracie , Jonathan Oliver ISBN: 9780753104262 Format: Audio	$145.07
Archibald Gracie was among the last to leave the sinking Titanic. His is the most vivid and accurate first-hand... Read More >>

The West Highland Galley

The West Highland Galley
Author: Denis Rixson ISBN: 9781874744863 Format: Hardback	$105.60
This text provides an assessment of the importance of the galley in the economy of the Scottish Highlands as a means... Read More >>

The Forgotten Trade: Comprising the Log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade From the Minor Ports of England 1698-1725

The Forgotten Trade: Comprising the Log of the Daniel...
Author: Nigel Tattersfield , John Fowles ISBN: 9780712673433 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Two years earlier, the Guinea trade had been prised loose by an Act of Parliament from the monopoly of the Royal... Read More >>

Iron and Heavy Guns: Duel Between the Monitor and the Merrimac

Iron and Heavy Guns: Duel Between the Monitor and the...
Author: Gene A. Smith ISBN: 9781886661158 Format: Paperback	$34.19
March 1862. The Union ironclad warship, Monitor, with its two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores in a unique revolving... Read More >>

29 Missing: The True and Tragic Story of the Disappearance of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

29 Missing: The True and Tragic Story of the Disappearance...
Author: Andrew Kantar ISBN: 9780870134463 Format: Paperback	$44.75
In 1958 the SS Edmund Fitzgerald entered the Great Lakes and was the biggest ship to sail fresh water. In 1975,... Read More >>

The Political Influence of Naval Force in History

The Political Influence of Naval Force in History
Author: J. Cable ISBN: 9780333671696 Format: Hardback	$145.17
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The Political Influence of Naval Force in History

The Political Influence of Naval Force in History
Author: J. Cable ISBN: 9780333671702 Format: Paperback	$116.41
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Ironclads At War: The Origin And Development Of The Armored Battleship

Ironclads At War: The Origin And Development Of The...
Author: Jack Greene , Alessandro Massignani ISBN: 9780938289586 Format: Hardback	$61.00
This detailed treatment of Civil War ironclads in the broader context of world naval developments has sparked a... Read More >>

Sailors: English Merchant Seamen, 1600-1750

Sailors: English Merchant Seamen, 1600-1750
Author: Peter Earle ISBN: 9780413688408 Format: Hardback	$65.87
A social and economic history of the lives of English merchant sailors in the 17th and 18th centuries, when England... Read More >>

Battleships of the Bismarck Class

Battleships of the Bismarck Class
Author: Gerhard Koop , Klaus-Peter Schmolke ISBN: 9781557500496 Format: Hardback	$65.00
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Historic Shipwrecks

Historic Shipwrecks
Author: Valerie Fenwick , Alison Gale ISBN: 9780752414164 Format: Hardback	$49.14
The Protection of Wrecks Act, passed some 25 years ago, is designed to ensure that shipwrecks of histori cal or... Read More >>

Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore

Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore
Author: Roger Hutchinson ISBN: 9781840180718 Format: Paperback	$47.52
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Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy

Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy
Author: James M. Morris , Patricia M. Kearns ISBN: 9780810834064 Format: Hardback	$288.95
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