Maritime history books

Warship is a celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on history, development, and service of...  Read More >>

On the evening of January 2, 2009, Captain Matteo Russo and crewman John Orlando got underway aboard the fifty-four-foot...  Read More >>

Portland Harbor is Peaks Island's front yard, providing islanders with water views and access to the city. Victorian...  Read More >>

Wood Island Lighthouse is the fifth-oldest lighthouse in the state, and it has cast its beacon into the Gulf of...  Read More >>

Set against the background of Brazilian politics and Brazilian foreign policy interests, this is a detailed account...  Read More >>

Examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the...  Read More >>

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese...  Read More >>

The volume includes several case studies that inform these narratives and examines slave ships such as la Concorde,...  Read More >>

Illicit commerce was key to the survival of the mid-Atlantic colonies from the Golden Age of piracy to the battles...  Read More >>

Lighthouses and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes explores many of the lighthouses and pier, reef, and breakwater lights...  Read More >>

The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13.  Read More >>

The Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new...  Read More >>

Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story...  Read More >>

Published on the centenary of the sinking of the Lusitania, Voyages from the Past examines the experiences of passengers...  Read More >>

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard...  Read More >>

"English summary: Compared with current ones, the navigation techniques and practices of the ancients are relatively...  Read More >>

Everything you need to know about the sea and shore, from high tides to half-hitches.  Read More >>

110 years after the sinking of Titanic, the book reveals a series of key characters who affected the fates of the...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern...  Read More >>

Mementoes of HMS Tamar abound in Hong Kong, but what is really known about this troopship and her role in the maintenance...  Read More >>

Reconsiders the creative contribution of the littoral and insular regions of Maritime Asia to shaping new paradigms...  Read More >>

Building on archival research, Bialuschewski untangles the wide variety of forms that cross-cultural relations took....  Read More >>

Pirate welfare played a prominent part in Mediterranean life during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries....  Read More >>

Explores the cross-cultural relations that emerged when greedy marauders encountered local populations in various...  Read More >>

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