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The Unseen Aquitania: The Ship in Rare Illustrations

The Unseen Aquitania: The Ship in Rare Illustrations...

Author: J. Kent Layton ,  Tad Fitch
ISBN: 9781803995861
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The story of the elegant Aquitania ‘the ship beautiful’, told through rare and unusual imagery  Read More >>

A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous

A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous

Author: John Rodgaard
ISBN: 9781036112349
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Here is the exhaustive and exhilarating story of HMS Venomous, one of sixty-seven V&W destroyers built at the end...  Read More >>

Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory

Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific...

Author: Evan Mawdsley
ISBN: 9780300255454
Format: Hardback
$41.95

The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the...  Read More >>

Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern...

Author: Roger Crowley
ISBN: 9780300267471
Format: Hardback
$41.95

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration...  Read More >>

Empire Javelin, D-Day Assault Ship: The Royal Navy vessel that landed the US 116th Infantry on Omaha Beach

Empire Javelin, D-Day Assault Ship: The Royal Navy vessel...

Author: Philip Kay-Bujak
ISBN: 9781399035811
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Empire Javelin an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on...  Read More >>

Warship 2024

Warship 2024

Author: John Jordan
ISBN: 9781472863300
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy

The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy...

Author: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472857736
Format: Hardback
$49.99

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to...  Read More >>

Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas Talbot

Commanding Old Ironsides: The Life of Captain Silas...

Author: William M. Fowler Jr., Recipient of the 2023 Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achie ,  Anne Grimes Rand
ISBN: 9781493077885
Format: Paperback
$50.99

In a full and energetic life, Silas Talbot went to sea, fought in the Revolutionary War, speculated in western lands,...  Read More >>

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica

Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century...

Author: Richard A. Stone ,  James W. Baker
ISBN: 9781493084364
Format: Hardback
$55.99

The never-before-told story of Project Mayflower--the building of the replica ship docked in Plymouth, Massachusetts--from...  Read More >>

A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean

A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First...

Author: Al M. Rocca
ISBN: 9781032734262
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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The Great Port Cities of Asia: In History

The Great Port Cities of Asia: In History

Author: Kennie Ting
ISBN: 9789811889738
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean

A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First...

Author: Al M. Rocca
ISBN: 9781032734248
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world...  Read More >>

Titanic's Unlucky Seven: The Story of the Ill-Fated Liner’s Officers

Titanic's Unlucky Seven: The Story of the Ill-Fated...

Author: James W Bancroft
ISBN: 9781036102517
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The disaster which befell RMS Titanic has become one of the most investigated and analysed maritime tragedies of...  Read More >>

Ocean Liners: A New History

Ocean Liners: A New History

Author: Anthony Burton
ISBN: 9781399049795
Format: Hardback
$75.00

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Captain Scott's Scrapbook: Mutinies, Mining and Mysteries

Captain Scott's Scrapbook: Mutinies, Mining and Mysteries...

Author: Margot Dixon
ISBN: 9781039188662
Format: Paperback
$64.65

Amongst the family albums her mother had kept, Margot Dixon found something very curious-Captain Samuel F. Scott's...  Read More >>

The Sitakund Disaster

The Sitakund Disaster

Author: Stephen Levine
ISBN: 9798224359646
Format: Paperback
$23.63

On a quiet Autumn evening in October 1968, the peace was broken by a large explosion at sea. Two more explosions...  Read More >>

Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Erik de Lange (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781009364140
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Over the course of the nineteenth century, European states worked together to install a new order of collective...  Read More >>

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews and the Sinking of Titanic

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay,...

Author: George Behe
ISBN: 9781803993355
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Presenting the true stories of three core individuals in Titanic’s history - Captain Edward J. Smith, shipbuilder...  Read More >>

Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860–1914

Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir,...

Author: Graeme J. Milne
ISBN: 9780228021308
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how...  Read More >>

Titanic: Sinking The Myths

Titanic: Sinking The Myths

Author: D E Bristow ,  Ryan Katzenbach
ISBN: 9781958727263
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of the first book to expose the TITANIC cover-up. In over 100 years there have...  Read More >>

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920

Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy...

Author: Charlie Papavizas
ISBN: 9781962729048
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Charlie Papavizas captures a rich history from the early 17th century English Navigation Acts to the building of...  Read More >>

Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860–1914

Making Men in the Age of Sail: Masculinity, Memoir,...

Author: Graeme J. Milne
ISBN: 9780228021292
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how...  Read More >>

The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820: Volume II: 1795–1803

The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820:...

Author: Neil Chambers
ISBN: 9781032530345
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph...  Read More >>

The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820: Volume III 1804–1820

The African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1767–1820:...

Author: Neil Chambers
ISBN: 9781032530369
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph...  Read More >>

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