Maritime history books

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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the...

Author: Lincoln Paine
ISBN: 9781101970355
Format: Paperback
$66.00

'The most enjoyable, the most refreshing, the most stimulating, the most comprehensive, the most discerning, the...  Read More >>

Royal Mail Ship Titanic: Her Life & Companions at Sea in Postcards

Royal Mail Ship Titanic: Her Life & Companions at Sea...

Author: Patrick Mylon
ISBN: 9780750955805
Format: Paperback
$51.75

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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

Author: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9780008160654
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest...  Read More >>

Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles: The English and Dutch East India companies (1700–1800)

Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles: The English and...

Author: Chris Nierstrasz
ISBN: 9781137486523
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The rivalry for trade in tea and textiles between the English and Dutch East India companies is very much a global...  Read More >>

Republican Roman Warships 509–27 BC

Republican Roman Warships 509–27 BC

Author: Raffaele D’Amato (Author) ,  Giuseppe Rava (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781472808271
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The birth of the mighty Roman Navy was anchored in the Romans' extraordinary ability to absorb and perfect the technology...  Read More >>

Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century: Drivers and Challenges

Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century: Drivers and...

Author: Christian Le Mière (International Institute of Strategic Studies, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138183667
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era, introducing new concepts such as the use of warships...  Read More >>

RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister

RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister

Author: Mark Chirnside
ISBN: 9780752491516
Format: Paperback
$87.99

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Troubled Waters: Leisure Boating and the Second World War

Troubled Waters: Leisure Boating and the Second World...

Author: Nigel Sharp
ISBN: 9781445651606
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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Voyages 2: 1991 to 2006

Voyages 2: 1991 to 2006

Author: Jack Kirk
ISBN: 9781517542054
Format: Paperback
$110.85

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Piracy and Policy in the Americas: 1775-1865 A Short History

Piracy and Policy in the Americas: 1775-1865 A Short...

Author: Josh Milner
ISBN: 9781628060706
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Captain Blackbeard's Pirate Trivia Challenge

Captain Blackbeard's Pirate Trivia Challenge

Author: Jonathan Ozanne
ISBN: 9781517329112
Format: Paperback
$20.46

"This book of pirate trivia provides a comprehensive overview of the world of pirates. It contains 150 questions...  Read More >>

Interesting History of Tsunamis and Big Waves

Interesting History of Tsunamis and Big Waves

Author: Emily Stehr
ISBN: 9781517649562
Format: Paperback
$34.32

Wave: a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell....  Read More >>

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar...

Author: Hampton Sides
ISBN: 9781780747453
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A harrowing tale of courage and sacrifice at the limits of human endurance  Read More >>

The Rhodian Sea-Law: Edited from the Manuscripts

The Rhodian Sea-Law: Edited from the Manuscripts

Author: Walter Ashburner
ISBN: 9781584771739
Format: Hardback
$54.21

"An important volume for the scholar of admiralty or maritime law or international trade. ccxciii, 132 pp. Originally...  Read More >>

Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Beyond Europe

Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Beyond Europe...

Author: Sean McGrail
ISBN: 9781473825598
Format: Hardback
$65.00

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Medieval Maritime Warfare

Medieval Maritime Warfare

Author: Charles D Stanton
ISBN: 9781781592519
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Graphic account of medieval maritime warfare in the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the Baltic. Describes the ships,...  Read More >>

Lusitania - Saga and Myth: 100 Years On

Lusitania - Saga and Myth: 100 Years On

Author: David Ramsay
ISBN: 9781473821767
Format: Hardback
$59.99

This superbly researched account by a leading expert on the subject is released to coincide with the Centenary of...  Read More >>

Enquiry Into the Validity of the British Claim to a Right of Visitation and Search of American Vessels Suspected to be Engaged in the African Slave-Trade

Enquiry Into the Validity of the British Claim to a...

Author: Henry Wheaton
ISBN: 9781584774075
Format: Hardback
$38.68

A sophisticated defense of state supremacy. Hardcover, 151 pp. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard,...  Read More >>

America Spreads Her Sails: U.S. Seapower in the 19th Century

America Spreads Her Sails: U.S. Seapower in the 19th...

Author: Clayton R. Barrow Jr
ISBN: 9781591142126
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"In this new paperback edition of America Spreads Her Sails, fourteen writers and historians demonstrate how American...  Read More >>

Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War

Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other...

Author: Mark K. Ragan
ISBN: 9781623492786
Format: Hardback
$92.40

The Singer Secret Service Corps developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices during...  Read More >>

Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce In 17th-Century Southeast Asia

Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff...

Author: Peter Borschberg ,  Corinna Vermeulen
ISBN: 9789971695279
Format: Hardback
$129.25

Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC)...  Read More >>

The Pacific

The Pacific

Author: Donald B. Freeman (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415851312
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Maritime Casualties: Causes and Consequences

Maritime Casualties: Causes and Consequences

Author: Tuuli Messer-Bookman ,  Robert J. Meurn
ISBN: 9780870336416
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Since the Titanic disaster of 1912, the horrors of major maritime casualties have prompted international conventions...  Read More >>

Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas,...

Author: Kris E Lane ,  Kris Lane
ISBN: 9780765638410
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope

Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship...

Author: Jonathan M. Bryant
ISBN: 9780871406750
Format: Hardback
$47.95

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of...  Read More >>

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