Maritime history books

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In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Author: James Davey
ISBN: 9780300228830
Format: Paperback
$30.95

Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat...  Read More >>

HMS Gloucester

HMS Gloucester

Author: Ken Otter
ISBN: 9781526702111
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The book looks at the ship's history and operation successes from her launching to her final demise.  Read More >>

Kerry, 1600-1730: The Emergence of a British Atlantic Colony

Kerry, 1600-1730: The Emergence of a British Atlantic...

Author: Marc Caball
ISBN: 9781846826429
Format: Paperback
$39.47

From 1600 to 1730, Kerry's coastal location positioned it strategically within a wider sphere of unparalleled discovery,...  Read More >>

A History of Persian Navigation

A History of Persian Navigation

Author: Hadi Hasan
ISBN: 9781138061026
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found

Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost...

Author: Gillian Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781472948694
Format: Paperback
$38.99

The true story of Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror of the North-West Passage...  Read More >>

Voyage of HMS Pandora: Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the Bounty in the South Seas, 1790-1791

Voyage of HMS Pandora: Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers...

Author: George Hamilton ,  Edward Edwards
ISBN: 9780994517852
Format: Paperback
$18.45

The Story of the mutiny of HMS Bounty is one of the best known from the annals of maritime history. In 1789 Captain...  Read More >>

Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe: Telling Failures

Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe: Telling...

Author: Ralf Hertel ,  Michael Keevak
ISBN: 9781472481672
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Fishing Boats Story

The Fishing Boats Story

Author: Mike Smylie
ISBN: 9780750969970
Format: Hardback
$24.99

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German Battleship SMS Posen

German Battleship SMS Posen

Author: Samuel Marsden ,  Gary Staff
ISBN: 9788365437532
Format: Paperback
$72.19

The last ship of the first class of German “Dreadnought” battleships was Ersatz Baden/Posen. The keel for Posen...  Read More >>

Naval Archives Vol. vi

Naval Archives Vol. vi

Author: Joint publication
ISBN: 9788365437525
Format: Paperback
$38.81

Includes articles, archive photos, 3D illustrations (with 3D glasses), and drawings of the famous warships.  Read More >>

The Haarlem shipwreck (1647): The origins of Cape Town

The Haarlem shipwreck (1647): The origins of Cape Town...

Author: Bruno Werz
ISBN: 9781868888399
Format: Paperback
$37.00

Explores the story around one of the earliest recorded maritime accidents in Table Bay. In this gripping investigation,...  Read More >>

Barbary Corsairs

Barbary Corsairs

Author: Jacques Heers ,  Jonathan North
ISBN: 9781473894259
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Explores the historical events and personages of the period.  Read More >>

Two Points East: A View of Maritime Norfolk

Two Points East: A View of Maritime Norfolk

Author: Judith Ellis
ISBN: 9781999783907
Format: Hardback
$42.69

The maritime history of Norfolk  Read More >>

Shipwrecks of the P&O Line

Shipwrecks of the P&O Line

Author: Sam Warwick ,  Mike Roussel
ISBN: 9780750962926
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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Daniel Defoe - A General History of the Pyrates: """And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst"""

Daniel Defoe - A General History of the Pyrates: """And...

Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9781787374294
Format: Paperback
$30.99

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The First Atlantic Liner: Brunel’s Great Western Steamship

The First Atlantic Liner: Brunel’s Great Western Steamship...

Author: Helen Doe ,  Colin Green (Chairman, SS Great Britain Trust)
ISBN: 9781445667201
Format: Hardback
$51.75

The first ever history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s forgotten first ship, the SS Great Western, the fastest and...  Read More >>

British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification Albums: Cruisers 1865-1939

British Warship Recognition: The Perkins Identification...

Author: Richard Perkins
ISBN: 9781473891494
Format: Hardback
$160.00

One of the greatest ever studies of British warship appearance  Read More >>

The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period

The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and...

Author: Sze Hang Choi
ISBN: 9789004341173
Format: Hardback
$398.64

This works tells a vivid story of how private Chinese traders and junk masters in in Southern China waters defended...  Read More >>

Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse

Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse...

Author: Eric Jay Dolin
ISBN: 9781631492501
Format: Paperback
$31.95

""What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical...  Read More >>

Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies

Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and...

Author: Sue Peabody (Professor of History, Professor of History, Washington State University Vancouver)
ISBN: 9780190233884
Format: Hardback
$54.95

A gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies....  Read More >>

Spanish Society, 1348-1700

Spanish Society, 1348-1700

Author: Teofilo F. Ruiz (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781138957862
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Beginning with the Black Death in 1348 and extending through to the demise of Habsburg rule in 1700, this second...  Read More >>

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