Maritime history books

How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of...  Read More >>

How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of...  Read More >>

Drawing on the underwater archaeological research, this study explains how Prien and his crew navigated the North...  Read More >>

Scale plans in 1/700, 1/350 and 1/200 of the IJN Destroyer Minekaze. A3 size pages in A4 pb. Also details in 1/100...  Read More >>

The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation given to usually one or more outbursts of piracy in the maritime...  Read More >>

Henry Mathias Elmore was a ship commander who worked for the East India Company. He wrote this account of sailing...  Read More >>

On June 3, 1621, the Dutch West India Company was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies (meaning...  Read More >>

Focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, this book examines how Montevideo merchant...  Read More >>

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse...  Read More >>

Focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, this book examines how Montevideo merchant...  Read More >>

The eyes of the world were on Liverpool - the famous shipping line's birthplace - as Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria...  Read More >>

After 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had...  Read More >>

This monograph is an exploration of the historical legacy of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, in particular in...  Read More >>

Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific...  Read More >>

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Herein lies the recollections of retired U.S.N. Capt. A.T. Mahan during the transition from sailing ships to steamships....  Read More >>

This is the sad story of a disaster that never should have happened. When the steamship Vestris pulled away from...  Read More >>

The first dedicated study of the treaty process that dominated inter-war navies. A readable summary of the political,...  Read More >>

The Mary Rose, one of the first great British warships and Henry VIII's flagship, sank in 1545, taking all her contents...  Read More >>

This new paperback is a Revised Edition with new preface. Using sources composed by late medieval Meccan scholars...  Read More >>

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Although the wreck of the Mary Rose was raised twenty years ago, the excavations and conservation work and indeed...  Read More >>

The first oceangoing yacht ever built in America, Cleopatra’s Barge, endured many incarnations over her eight-year...  Read More >>

In Mediterranean Wooden Shipbuilding Apostolos Delis analyses the wooden shipbuilding industry of the port of Syros,...  Read More >>

"""A photo-rich visual tour of the storied lighthouses and lightships of Massachusetts. Covers all of Massachusetts's...  Read More >>