Maritime history books

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To Save Every One: 200 Years of RNLI Courage

To Save Every One: 200 Years of RNLI Courage

Author: The RNLI ,  Daniel Craig
ISBN: 9780008613051
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900

Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900...

Author: Seth Stein LeJacq
ISBN: 9781032409900
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into...  Read More >>

The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807

The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British...

Author: Theodore Corbett
ISBN: 9781399048200
Format: Hardback
$75.00

An uplifting work of black history in the context of the American War for Independence.  Read More >>

The Destroyer USS Kidd

The Destroyer USS Kidd

Author: Stefan Draminski
ISBN: 9781472827418
Format: Hardback
$89.99

A brilliantly detailed visual representation of the only US World War II destroyer that has retained its original...  Read More >>

Hooghly: The Global History of a River

Hooghly: The Global History of a River

Author: Robert Ivermee
ISBN: 9781911723349
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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The Zong Lib/E: A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery

The Zong Lib/E: A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery...

Author: James Walvin ,  Derek Perkins
ISBN: 9798874686246
Format: Audio
$176.85

"The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of...  Read More >>

Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650

Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company:...

Author: David Howarth
ISBN: 9780300276497
Format: Paperback
$26.95

The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying...  Read More >>

Southwest Virginia and Maritime Disasters: From the SS Vestris to the Morro Castle and Beyond

Southwest Virginia and Maritime Disasters: From the...

Author: Brandon Whited
ISBN: 9781467155915
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Explore southwest Virginia's local links to maritime history. Until the growing popularity of air travel post-World...  Read More >>

La marine militaire de la France en 1845

La marine militaire de la France en 1845

Author: Jurien de la Gravi�re
ISBN: 9783988817754
Format: Paperback
$34.29

... Pour sauver notre marine d'une ruine totale, il fut heureux que tant de le�ons nous eussent enfin oblig�s �...  Read More >>

One Crew: The RNLI's Official 200-Year History

One Crew: The RNLI's Official 200-Year History

Author: Helen Doe ,  HRH The Duke of Kent
ISBN: 9781398122352
Format: Hardback
$59.49

This book takes a fresh look at the creation of the Institution, and its early founders and examines how it has...  Read More >>

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage...

Author: Buddy Levy
ISBN: 9781250871633
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Relations, 1689-1918

The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Relations, 1689-1918...

Author: Colin Partridge ,  Jean de Préneuf
ISBN: 9781783276554
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel....  Read More >>

British Maritime Empire's Falmouth Connection

British Maritime Empire's Falmouth Connection

Author: George E Applewhite
ISBN: 9783131844927
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Explore the maritime nexus of Falmouth at the dawn of the nineteenth century in this illuminating thesis, unraveling...  Read More >>

Documenting Maritime Heritage at Risk: Digital Tools, Communities, and Institutions

Documenting Maritime Heritage at Risk: Digital Tools,...

Author: Elizabeth Shotton (University College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Oriel Prizeman (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
ISBN: 9781032472089
Format: Hardback
$103.00

Documenting Maritime Heritage at Risk addresses the risks posed to coastal piers and quays due to climate change,...  Read More >>

The Wager

The Wager

Author: David Grann
ISBN: 9781471183706
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London

Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works...

Author: Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
ISBN: 9781802075410
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of ‘sailor talk.’ The...  Read More >>

Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth– and Twentieth–Century Coastal Ghana

Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth– and...

Author: K Nti
ISBN: 9780253067920
Format: Paperback
$68.99

The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication in Maritime History

Privacy at Sea: Practices, Spaces, and Communication...

Author: Natacha Klein Käfer
ISBN: 9783031358463
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the idea of privacy at sea, from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth– and Twentieth–Century Coastal Ghana

Maritime Culture and Everyday Life in Nineteenth– and...

Author: K Nti
ISBN: 9780253067913
Format: Hardback
$165.99

The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History

Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American...

Author: Jacob Crane
ISBN: 9781625347428
Format: Hardback
$261.36

An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of...  Read More >>

Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s France: Private Finance, the Contractor State, and the French Navy

Maritime Power and the Power of Money in Louis XIV’s...

Author: Dr Benjamin Darnell
ISBN: 9781837650545
Format: Hardback
$219.94

A detailed analysis of the limitations of the system which relied on intermediaries and private suppliers to finance,...  Read More >>

Dublin Port Chief Engineers

Dublin Port Chief Engineers

Author: Ronald Cox
ISBN: 9781399935500
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the following century witnessed a great expansion...  Read More >>

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