Maritime history books

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Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts

Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts

Author: Chris McNab
ISBN: 9781636240862
Format: Hardback
$99.00

A heavily illustrated account of the evolution, design and deployment of dreadnought battleships.  Read More >>

Beyond Trawlertown: Memory, Life and Legacy in the Wake of the Cod Wars

Beyond Trawlertown: Memory, Life and Legacy in the Wake...

Author: Jo Byrne
ISBN: 9781800856554
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Through the convergence of time, place and memory, this holistic narrative of interweaving stories reveals the intricacies...  Read More >>

The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of All Nations

The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of...

Author: Peter Stone
ISBN: 9781399085229
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A major new history of the Port of London.  Read More >>

The Pirates Laffite Lib/E: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf

The Pirates Laffite Lib/E: The Treacherous World of...

Author: William C Davis ,  Paul Woodson
ISBN: 9798212108225
Format: Audio
$269.25

An engrossing and exciting account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures...  Read More >>

Icebound

Icebound

Author: Andrea Pitzer
ISBN: 9781471182761
Format: Paperback
$24.99

One of the greatest stories of survival and adventure in the Arctic that inspired Shakespeare and Jules Verne  Read More >>

The Black Joke: One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade

The Black Joke: One Ship's Battle Against the Slave...

Author: A E Rooks ,  Leon Nixon
ISBN: 9781797138343
Format: Audio
$105.57

A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron,...  Read More >>

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Author: Alfred T. Mahan ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513131894
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World: Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century

How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped...

Author: Nick Collins
ISBN: 9781526786623
Format: Hardback
$75.00

First book of 3-book series showing how maritime trade shaped the world from the Ice Age to modernity.  Read More >>

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900

Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900...

Author: Stephen R Bown ,  Malcolm Hillgartner
ISBN: 9798212081672
Format: Audio
$190.05

It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast...  Read More >>

The Titanic and the City of Widows it left Behind: The Forgotten Victims of the Fatal Voyage

The Titanic and the City of Widows it left Behind: The...

Author: Cook, Julie
ISBN: 9781399003469
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer

Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern...

Author: Alexander Clarke
ISBN: 9781526772909
Format: Hardback
$90.00

The first technical analysis of these ships that allows for a real understanding of their success.  Read More >>

Songs of Ships & Sailors

Songs of Ships & Sailors

Author: Julia Lane ,  Fred Gosbee
ISBN: 9781935243793
Format: Paperback
$64.56

More than 160 songs drawn from recordings and archives of Maine singers and collectors; powerful stories of sailing,...  Read More >>

Mutiny and Aftermath: James Morrison's Account of the Mutiny on the Bounty and the Island of Tahiti

Mutiny and Aftermath: James Morrison's Account of the...

Author: Vanessa Smith ,  Nicholas Thomas
ISBN: 9780824892814
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most controversial events of eighteenth-century maritime history. This book...  Read More >>

Ships and Shipwrecks: Stories from the Great Lakes

Ships and Shipwrecks: Stories from the Great Lakes

Author: Richard Gebhart
ISBN: 9781948314091
Format: Paperback
$39.55

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Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy

Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers...

Author: Teresa Michals
ISBN: 9780813946733
Format: Paperback
$104.28

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Songs of Ships & Sailors

Songs of Ships & Sailors

Author: Julia Lane ,  Fred Gosbee
ISBN: 9781935243786
Format: Hardback
$77.50

More than 160 songs drawn from recordings and archives of Maine singers and collectors; powerful stories of sailing,...  Read More >>

Marine Insurance: A Legal History

Marine Insurance: A Legal History

Author: Rob Merkin
ISBN: 9781788116749
Format: Hardback
$1216.00

This authoritative work forms a comprehensive examination of the legal and historical context of marine insurance,...  Read More >>

Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy

Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers...

Author: Teresa Michals
ISBN: 9780813946726
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Columbia River

Columbia River

Author: John a Harrison
ISBN: 9781540250742
Format: Hardback
$64.66

The Columbia River is the dominant river system of the Northwest United States. It is a river of many uses--hydropower,...  Read More >>

Sam Coverly's Journal with Historical Notes: Traveling and Trading in the Early Republic

Sam Coverly's Journal with Historical Notes: Traveling...

Author: John A. Albertini
ISBN: 9781527576032
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and an adventurous traveler. His trading took him to China and England, to Montreal...  Read More >>

Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860: Globalization and Maritime Knowledge in the Atlantic World

Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860: Globalization...

Author: Karel Davids (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350240438
Format: Paperback
$61.99

This book looks to fill the ‘blue hole’ in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation,...  Read More >>

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved...

Author: Stephen Bown
ISBN: 9780750997409
Format: Paperback
$37.99

The story of how three individuals conquered the plague of the sea  Read More >>

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