Maritime history books

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Shipping and the American War 1775-83: A Study of British Transport Organization

Shipping and the American War 1775-83: A Study of British...

Author: David Syrett (Late of City University of New York, US)
ISBN: 9781474241335
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Showing the complex interaction of strategy, logistics, administration, and economics, Syrett’s pioneering text...  Read More >>

Commemorating the Seafarer: Monuments, Memorials and Memory

Commemorating the Seafarer: Monuments, Memorials and...

Author: Barbara Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781843839705
Format: Hardback
$129.38

A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them....  Read More >>

Titanic: The Sinking of The Titanic

Titanic: The Sinking of The Titanic

Author: Patrick Auerbach
ISBN: 9781522776604
Format: Paperback
$35.98

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Dun Laoghaire Holyhead 1826 - 2015: The Rise and Decline of Ireland's Premier Route

Dun Laoghaire Holyhead 1826 - 2015: The Rise and Decline...

Author: Justin Merrigan
ISBN: 9781906608828
Format: Hardback
$50.46

In February 2015, just short of its 200th anniversary Stenna Line withdrew their link to Holyhead. The book covers...  Read More >>

Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations: A Memoir and History

Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations: A Memoir...

Author: Bernie Webber ,  Michael Tougias
ISBN: 9781627340625
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Bernie Webber, hero of Disney movie, The Finest Hours and bestselling book Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat...  Read More >>

Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations: A Memoir and History

Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations: A Memoir...

Author: Bernie Webber ,  Michael Tougias
ISBN: 9781627341301
Format: Hardback
$107.02

Bernie Webber, hero of Disney movie, The Finest Hours and bestselling book Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat...  Read More >>

Marine Insurance: Origins and Institutions, 1300-1850

Marine Insurance: Origins and Institutions, 1300-1850...

Author: Adrian Leonard
ISBN: 9781137411372
Format: Hardback
$448.77

Since its invention in Italy in the fourteenth century, marine insurance has provided merchants with capital protection...  Read More >>

The Port of Rotterdam - World Between City and Sea

The Port of Rotterdam - World Between City and Sea

Author: Jannes Linders ,  Siebe Swart
ISBN: 9789462082359
Format: Paperback
$211.20

The Port of Rotterdam analyzes the history of Rotterdam as a port city from economic, geographic and logistic perspectives....  Read More >>

Mad For Glory: A Heart of Darkness in the War of 1812

Mad For Glory: A Heart of Darkness in the War of 1812...

Author: Robert Booth
ISBN: 9780884483571
Format: Hardback
$65.87

What if a naval captain went rogue with an American battleship?  Read More >>

Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex: The true story that inspired the film In the Heart of the Sea

Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex: The true story that...

Author: Owen Chase
ISBN: 9781784871260
Format: Paperback
$25.85

DON'T MISS THE MAJOR FILM INSPIRED BY CHASE'S NARRATIVE, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA On 20 November 1820, just south...  Read More >>

Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One: The Medieval and Early Modern Period

Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean...

Author: Anna Winterbottom ,  Facil Tesfaye
ISBN: 9781137567604
Format: Hardback
$263.97

This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine,...  Read More >>

Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period

Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean...

Author: Anna Winterbottom ,  Facil Tesfaye
ISBN: 9781137567611
Format: Hardback
$369.57

The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context...  Read More >>

Heraldry of the Oceans: The Garb of the Merchant Seafarer

Heraldry of the Oceans: The Garb of the Merchant Seafarer...

Author: Alastair Arnott
ISBN: 9780752493411
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Throughout history, Britain's merchant seafarers have formed a mighty force, explanding throughout the nineteenth...  Read More >>

In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick ,  Scott Brick
ISBN: 9781489055743
Format: Audio
$49.11

The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of...  Read More >>

In the Heart of the Sea

In the Heart of the Sea

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick ,  Scott Brick
ISBN: 9781489055736
Format: Audio
$56.87

The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of...  Read More >>

The Battleship HMS Warspite 1914–1919

The Battleship HMS Warspite 1914–1919

Author: TROELS W. HANSEN
ISBN: 9788364596735
Format: Paperback
$46.58

In 1906, the British launched one of the most revolutionary ships ever built – HMS Dreadnought. Besides being a...  Read More >>

Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic

Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering...

Author: David Head
ISBN: 9780820348643
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were...  Read More >>

Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic

Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering...

Author: David Head
ISBN: 9780820344003
Format: Hardback
$319.31

Examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were...  Read More >>

Horatio Nelson: pocket GIANTS

Horatio Nelson: pocket GIANTS

Author: Peter Warwick
ISBN: 9780750962667
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Why is Nelson a hero? Because he was a captain before he was 21, a man who shaped the course of history from the...  Read More >>

The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia

The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia...

Author: Bill Hayton
ISBN: 9780300216943
Format: Paperback
$28.95

Why the world can't afford to be indifferent to the simmering conflict in the South China Sea ""The greatest risk...  Read More >>

Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires,...

Author: Rebekah Higgitt ,  Richard Dunn
ISBN: 9781137520630
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role...  Read More >>

A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1740, 41, 42, 43, 44 (Compiled by R. Walter)

A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1740, 41, 42,...

Author: George Anson
ISBN: 9781345225570
Format: Hardback
$61.97

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

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