Navigation & seamanship books

Focuses on the development of steamer traffic from 1816 - when the foundations were laid for the first stage-and-steamboat...  Read More >>

With the frankness and clarity of someone whose life has been lived to the full, the author tells the story of that...  Read More >>

This true-life adventure tells the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship ""Essex""--an event that served...  Read More >>

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This volume provides the times and heights of tides for thousands of locations.  Read More >>

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This lavish reference book is the most comprehensive volume on all varieties of seafaring vessels, from rafts to...  Read More >>

The collection of globes and armillary spheres (skeleton celestial globes) at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,...  Read More >>

Explains step-by-step map reading, land navigation, and route finding techniques crucial to success and safety in...  Read More >>

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NO FURTHER DISCOUNTS ON THIS ITEM-- OVERSTOCK SALE-- Significantly reduced item while supplies last Official...  Read More >>

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This text focuses on the history of the development of hand-held celestial navigation instruments, offering descriptions...  Read More >>

Automatic navigation makes travel safer: Unless they malfunction, machines are tireless and always vigilant. Long...  Read More >>

Is it possible that civilisation has been in the Americas for tens of thousands of years? More and more scientifically...  Read More >>

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This book offers a treatment of the Earth as an ellipsoid of revolution, pictured as a sphere, as has served navigators...  Read More >>

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A companion volume to Ocean Yachtmaster"" for those taking the Yachtmaster Ocean Certificate, and for navigation...  Read More >>

The primary focus of Fundamentals of High Accuracy Inertial Navigation is on the physical and mathematical principles...  Read More >>