Maritime history books

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Britain's War At Sea, 1914-1918: The war they thought and the war they fought

Britain's War At Sea, 1914-1918: The war they thought...

Author: Greg Kennedy ,  Dr. Tim Benbow
ISBN: 9781472426277
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In Britain, memory of the First World War remains dominated by the trench warfare of the Western Front. This volume...  Read More >>

Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors

Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors

Author: Simon Wills
ISBN: 9781473834330
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A comprehensive guide to interpreting photographs of seafaring ancestors from 1850 to 1950.  Read More >>

Endeavouring Banks: Exploring collections from the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771

Endeavouring Banks: Exploring collections from the Endeavour...

Author: Neil Chambers
ISBN: 9781742235004
Format: Hardback
$39.99

When English naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his historic mission into the Pacific, he took...  Read More >>

Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail and Steam

Forty Years Master: A Life in Sail and Steam

Author: Daniel O. Killman ,  John Lyman
ISBN: 9781623493806
Format: Hardback
$92.40

During Daniel O. Killman’s more than fifty years at sea, hewas shipwrecked off Coos Bay, discovered gold in Alaska,...  Read More >>

Archaeology of East Asian Shipbuilding

Archaeology of East Asian Shipbuilding

Author: Jun Kimura
ISBN: 9780813061184
Format: Hardback
$211.07

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After Titanic: A Historical-Quantum Theory Slim

After Titanic: A Historical-Quantum Theory Slim

Author: Cristina Salat
ISBN: 9781533242754
Format: Paperback
$31.05

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Invasion of Sydney: Fears and Counter-Measures of an Isolated Colony

Invasion of Sydney: Fears and Counter-Measures of an...

Author: Dean Boyce
ISBN: 9781925043211
Format: Paperback
$28.95

Anxieties about foreign invasion were taken so seriously in colonial Sydney that glancing round the Harbour one...  Read More >>

Lusitania

Lusitania

Author: Greg King ,  Penny Wilson
ISBN: 9781250080356
Format: Paperback
$14.99

100 years after its sinking, Greg King and Penny Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and...  Read More >>

Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade

Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against...

Author: Peter Grindal
ISBN: 9781788312868
Format: Paperback
$150.00

Much is known about Britain’s role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of...  Read More >>

The Geography of the Ocean: Knowing the ocean as a space

The Geography of the Ocean: Knowing the ocean as a space...

Author: Anne-Flore Laloë ,  Robert Mayhew
ISBN: 9781409421436
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth’s surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly...  Read More >>

Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade

Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against...

Author: Peter Grindal
ISBN: 9781784533878
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Much is known about Britain’s role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of...  Read More >>

Sailing and Soaring: The Great Liners and the Great Skyscrapers

Sailing and Soaring: The Great Liners and the Great...

Author: William H. Miller
ISBN: 9781781553688
Format: Paperback
$53.99

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Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts

Ancient Athenian Maritime Courts

Author: Edward Cohen
ISBN: 9780691645919
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole

British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole

Author: Daniel A. Baugh
ISBN: 9780691650890
Format: Hardback
$360.00

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Yankee Surveyors in the Shogun's Seas

Yankee Surveyors in the Shogun's Seas

Author: Allan Burnett Cole
ISBN: 9780691653563
Format: Hardback
$135.00

When Commodore Perry opened Japan to the West, the U.S. Navy sent a surveying expedition to the North Pacific. The...  Read More >>

Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World

Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World

Author: Lionel Casson
ISBN: 9780691638348
Format: Hardback
$370.00

"Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible"" traces the art...  Read More >>

Rise of American Naval Power

Rise of American Naval Power

Author: Harold Hance Sprout ,  Margaret T. Sprout
ISBN: 9780691650333
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Attempts to assemble the historic pattern of contributing factors which shaped the course of American naval development...  Read More >>

The Hurricane Jumpers: The Escape of HMS Calliope

The Hurricane Jumpers: The Escape of HMS Calliope

Author: Graham Leslie Hague
ISBN: 9781533146571
Format: Paperback
$30.74

This is the story of a boy and man in Queen Victoria's Royal Navy in the second part of the nineteenth century....  Read More >>

The John Temperley: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1865-1866

The John Temperley: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1865-1866...

Author: Belinda Lansley
ISBN: 9780473290160
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Of the female immigrants, ten were prostitutes and four ballet dancers. The scandalous newspaper reports told...  Read More >>

First Indian: The First Indian Solo Circumnavigation Under Sail

First Indian: The First Indian Solo Circumnavigation...

Author: Dilip Donde
ISBN: 9781909911499
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919

The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at...

Author: Dan Van der Vat
ISBN: 9781843410690
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Reproduction of the Record of the Battle of Jutland

Reproduction of the Record of the Battle of Jutland...

Author: John Harper
ISBN: 9781904381525
Format: Paperback
$33.61

This book, generally referred to as the Harper Record was the Admiralty's first attempt to compile a chronological...  Read More >>

From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea

From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at...

Author: Jo Stanley
ISBN: 9780752488783
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Today women captain cruise ships as big as towns and work at the highest level in the global maritime industry....  Read More >>

The Wreck of the Steamship Pacific: The Worst Maritime Disaster of the West Coast

The Wreck of the Steamship Pacific: The Worst Maritime...

Author: Brian K Crawford
ISBN: 9781533023858
Format: Paperback
$14.44

On the evening of Thursday, November 4, 1875, the steamship Pacific collided with the clipper ship Orpheus off Cape...  Read More >>

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