Maritime history books

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The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820: Volume II: 1795–1803

The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820:...

Author: Neil Chambers
ISBN: 9781032530345
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph...  Read More >>

The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820: Volume III 1804–1820

The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820:...

Author: Neil Chambers
ISBN: 9781032530369
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph...  Read More >>

When I Heard the Bell: The Loss of the Iolaire

When I Heard the Bell: The Loss of the Iolaire

Author: John MacLeod
ISBN: 9781839830563
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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FOR THOSE IN PERIL: 200 years of the RNLI: A station by station guide to the lifeboat service in the UK and Ireland

FOR THOSE IN PERIL: 200 years of the RNLI: A station...

Author: Nicholas Leach
ISBN: 9781909540316
Format: Paperback
$64.69

On 4 March 2024 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution celebrated its 200th anniversary, operating 238 lifeboat...  Read More >>

The Unseen Aquitania: The Ship in Rare Illustrations

The Unseen Aquitania: The Ship in Rare Illustrations...

Author: J. Kent Layton ,  Tad Fitch
ISBN: 9781803995861
Format: Paperback
$65.00

The story of the elegant Aquitania ‘the ship beautiful’, told through rare and unusual imagery  Read More >>

The Chronicler of China: Juan González de Mendoza, between Mission, Empire and History (Sixteenth- to Seventeenth Centuries)

The Chronicler of China: Juan González de Mendoza, between...

Author: Diego Sola
ISBN: 9781032441900
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of...  Read More >>

A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous

A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous

Author: John Rodgaard
ISBN: 9781036112349
Format: Paperback
$52.99

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact...

Author: Hampton Sides ,  Peter Noble
ISBN: 9780593821312
Format: Audio
$118.80

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Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory

Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific...

Author: Evan Mawdsley
ISBN: 9780300255454
Format: Hardback
$41.95

The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the...  Read More >>

Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern...

Author: Roger Crowley
ISBN: 9780300267471
Format: Hardback
$41.95

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration...  Read More >>

Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk

Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk

Author: Robert Kershaw
ISBN: 9781472854391
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Using revelatory new material on an event which changed the tide of World War II, Robert Kershaw's ground-breaking...  Read More >>

The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World

The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the...

Author: Wim Klooster ,  Nikolay Protsenko
ISBN: 9798887195575
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact...

Author: Hampton Sides
ISBN: 9780593863183
Format: Paperback
$97.68

"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated...  Read More >>

The Lucky and the Lost: The Lives of Titanic's Children

The Lucky and the Lost: The Lives of Titanic's Children...

Author: John Boileau ,  Patricia Theriault
ISBN: 9781774712689
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"A compelling, illustrated narrative history of the children who sailed aboard the doomed RMS Titanic--both those...  Read More >>

Warship 2024

Warship 2024

Author: John Jordan
ISBN: 9781472863300
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy

The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy...

Author: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472857736
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to...  Read More >>

Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas Talbot

Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas...

Author: William M. Fowler Jr., Recipient of the 2023 Com ,  Anne Grimes Rand
ISBN: 9781493077885
Format: Paperback
$50.99

In a full and energetic life, Silas Talbot went to sea, fought in the Revolutionary War, speculated in western lands,...  Read More >>

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World

Author: Kristie Flannery
ISBN: 9781512825749
Format: Hardback
$145.20

"""This book argues that anti-piracy politics were the ideological glue that held Spain's Asian empire together...  Read More >>

A Swashbuckling Saga: The Epic History of Pirates

A Swashbuckling Saga: The Epic History of Pirates

Author: Daniel Lucier
ISBN: 9798224900855
Format: Paperback
$23.73

"Embark on a thrilling adventure through the pages of ""A Swashbuckling Saga: The Epic History of Pirates."" This...  Read More >>

A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870-1914 (Volume 1): Entry, Enterprise Formation, and Early Firm Growth

A History of British Tramp Shipping, 1870-1914 (Volume...

Author: Gordon H. Boyce
ISBN: 9781802074666
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Celebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are...  Read More >>

A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean

A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First...

Author: Al M. Rocca
ISBN: 9781032734262
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean

A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First...

Author: Al M. Rocca
ISBN: 9781032734248
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Cook's Endeavour

Cook's Endeavour

Author: Kevin Jackson
ISBN: 9781948585439
Format: Paperback
$34.19

This is history as you long to read it, charismatic, concise and unputdownable.- HORATIO CLARELike Sir Francis Drake...  Read More >>

Fokker C.11w

Fokker C.11w

Author: Edwin Hoogschagen
ISBN: 9789464561906
Format: Paperback
$68.61

The sturdy Fokker C.XIw was designed and built for service in the Royal Netherlands Navy. Development started in...  Read More >>

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