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Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle by Nigel Rigby
RRP: $41.98$32.99Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas... -
A Brief History of British Sea Power: How Britain Became Sovereign of the Seas by David Howarth 9781841197920 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$5.57The British did not take to water like ducks, for centuries doing little but cling to coastal waters. The Romans and Vikings knocked spots of us as seamen, and the English upper classes saw seafaring as mercantile and beneath them. Britain's success at... -
A Brief History of British Sea Power: How Britain Became Sovereign of the Seas by David Howarth
RRP: $20.98$14.93The British did not take to water like ducks, for centuries doing little but cling to coastal waters. The Romans and Vikings knocked spots of us as seamen, and the English upper classes saw seafaring as mercantile and beneath them. Britain's success at... -
Two Points East: A View of Maritime Norfolk by Judith Ellis
RRP: $34.65$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999783907Author Judith EllisFormat HardbackImprint Red Herring PublishingPublisher Red Herring Publishing -
Ocean of Churn by Sanyal Sanjeev 9780143429081
RRP: $29.30$23.14In this ambitious book, bestselling author Sanjeev Sanyal chronicles the grand sweep of history from East Africa to Australia, conjuring the great cities of Angkor and Vijayanagar, medieval Arab empires and Chinese 'treasure fleets' in rich, vivid detail... -
Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans by Helen M. Rozwadowski
RRP: $52.50$37.00Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across geological and evolutionary time and exploring different cultures around the globe. Our ancient... -
Titanic by Stuart Robertson 9781910821190
RRP: $20.98$14.28"Titanic" delves into the astonishing facts surrounding the tragedy of 1912 and is essential for anyone wishing to separate myth from reality. With a range of trivia including facts about the construction of the vessel deemed to be 'unsinkable', the... -
It's Wales: Welsh Pirates by Dafydd Meirion 9780862438654 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.40$4.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862438654Author Dafydd MeirionFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell by Kevin Jackson
RRP: $16.78$12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916190870Author Kevin JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TSBPublisher Can of Worms Press -
Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Man Who Lived to Tell about It by Brian Murphy
RRP: $46.20$34.86The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered... -
The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet by Jeremy R Moss 9781646631513
RRP: $46.10$34.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646631513Author Jeremy R MossFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Captain''s Row BooksPublisher Captain''s Row BooksWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm)... -
The Whaleboat: A Study of Design Construction and Use from 1864 to 2014 by Willits Ansel
RRP: $52.40$35.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939511389Author Willits AnselFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport Museum -
The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700-1700: How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy by Nick Collins 9781399060127 [USED COPY]
RRP: $73.50$29.00Following the series' first book How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World, this book continues to demonstrate how maritime trade has been the key driver of the world's wealth-creation, economic and intellectual progress. The story... -
The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700-1700: How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy by Nick Collins 9781399060127
RRP: $73.50$51.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Canadian Pacific Ships: The History of a Company and its Ships by Ian Collard
RRP: $52.50$38.93In 1873 a company was formed to construct the first railway across Canada. It soon branched out into shipping, chartering ships from the Cunard Line for service between Vancouver, Yokohama, Shanghai and Hong Kong. In 1889 Canadian Pacific would be... -
Britannia's Glory - A Maritime Story: Great Britain's Seafaring History Told in Verse by Maggie Ballinger 9781912690169
RRP: $52.50$38.43British fishermen, crusaders, Explorers, smugglers, traders, Inventors, convicts, settlers in the hold. Pirates, shipwrights, whalers, And our navies' trusted sailors: Presented here, in verse, their histories told. Since before Great... -
Royal Yachts Under Sail by Brian Lavery
RRP: $105.00$73.96From the time of the Restoration of Charles II, when he returned to England from Breda and was presented with the yacht Mary by the burgomaster of Amsterdam, Royal yachts began to be defined as such in England and built with that special purpose in mind... -
Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime by Dilip M. Menon
RRP: $77.68$68.31Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and... -
Misery, Mutiny and Menace: Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.2) by Graham Faiella 9780750990851
RRP: $27.28$20.20Life at sea in the nineteenth century was demanding and perilous. Seamen had to be able to rely on those around them. This was easier said than done. The sea could be, and still is, a place of constant and unpredictable danger, whether by storm,... -
The Titanic Disaster: Omens, Mysteries and Misfortunes of the Doomed Liner by James W Bancroft 9781399048958
RRP: $42.00$30.01It was on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, that the imposing bulk of the RMS Titanic slipped her berth, and, to great fanfare, headed out into the Solent at the start of her maiden voyage. By all accounts, the liner was at the time the largest man-made object... -
The German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen by Waldemar Goralski
RRP: $33.60$32.61The German heavy cruiser PRINZ EUGEN was an enlarged version of the Admiral Hipper class ships. The keel was laid on 23 April 1936, she was launched on 22 August 1938, and commissioned on 1 August 1940. She took part in the first mission of the... -
Pirates: Fact and Fiction by David Cordingly
RRP: $42.00$32.00The image of the pirate never fails to capture the imagination. The cut-throat sea robbers of history who plundered richly laden merchant ships are legendary. The likes of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Henry Morgan are romanticised and celebrated in... -
Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks by Alan G. Jamieson
RRP: $63.00$44.00Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historical context and significance, and showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, shedding new light on long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G... -
Mysteries and Sea Monsters: Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.4) by Graham Faiella 9780750990875
RRP: $23.08$14.95The sea realm has ever been mysterious: strange happenings upon it, an unfathomable abyss of 'The Great Unknown' below. Before the scrutiny of scientific Enlightenment and Age of Reason, in the eighteenth century, ghost ships and oceanic monsters were... -
The Forgotten Shipwreck: Solving the Mystery of the Darlwyne by Nick Lyon
RRP: $41.90$29.93The Forgotten Shipwreck is the tragic true story of a Cornish pleasure boat which sank without trace or sensation, relegated in news columns by England's football World Cup triumph the day before. It spans so many facets, from a village numbed with whole... -
The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807 by Theodore Corbett 9781399048200
RRP: $52.50$37.00Although Africans and African Americans have been left out of most accounts of the Revolutionary years, this book pieces together their emerging path toward freedom. From Britain came the Great Awakening, the advent of evangelism in America, which would... -
Cannibals and Carnage: Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.1) by Graham Faiella 9780750990844
RRP: $27.28$23.12In the nineteenth century true stories of cannibal tribes massacring white traders (and vice versa) and missionaries fed the morbid appetites of Europeans, North Americans and colonials. Accounts of cannibalism committed by seafarers on their dead... -
Shadows on the Sea: The Maritime Mysteries of Britain by Neil Arnold 9780752487724
RRP: $27.28$20.20Sink into the depths... The great oceans of the world have long been considered alien environments said to harbor strange creatures and unfathomable mysteries. This new book from full-time monster hunter Neil Arnold examines the maritime-rich heritage... -
Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation by Alan Gurney 9780393327137
RRP: $44.10$36.50This is the rich history of the most important navigational device of all time, the magnetic compass, born of the need for a reliable means of negotiating treacherous sea routes around the globe. Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who... -
It Might Have Been: A forensic look at Titanic's sinking by Pellegrino 9781539317111
RRP: $37.78$33.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539317111Author PellegrinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Darwin's Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle by Kevin Jackson
RRP: $16.78$12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916190887Author Kevin JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TSBPublisher Can of Worms Press -
The Last Days of the Schooner America: A Lost Icon at the Annapolis Warship Factory David Gendell 9781493084449
RRP: $63.00$43.64The schooner America was a technological marvel and a child star. In the summer of 1851, just weeks after her launching at New York, shecrossed the Atlantic and sailed to an upset victory against a fleet of champions. The silver cup she won that day is... -
The Rescue Ships and The Convoys: Saving Lives During The Second World War by B B Schofield 9781036102661
RRP: $52.50$37.00The Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they... -
A Brief History of the Titanic - Fascinating Historical Facts of Titanic's Tragic Tale by Scott Matthews 9781923168084
RRP: $52.48$43.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923168084Author Scott MatthewsFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Alex GibbonsPublisher Alex GibbonsWeight(grams) 209g -
United States Coast Guard Leaders and Missions, 1790 to the Present by Thomas P. Ostrom 9780786495269
$71.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786495269Author Thomas P. OstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 320g -
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides 9780593863183
RRP: $77.70$46.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593863183Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 658g -
Empire Javelin, D-Day Assault Ship: The Royal Navy vessel that landed the US 116th Infantry on Omaha Beach by Philip Kay-Bujak 9781399035811
RRP: $52.50$37.00_Empire Javelin_ an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on D-Day. She carried A Company 116th RCT (the famous ‘Bedford’ Boys’) across the Channel and her landing craft put them ashore on Dog Green... -
Titanic by DK 9780744028973
RRP: $35.68$30.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780744028973Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Publisher DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Weight(grams) 216g -
Early Modern Naval Health Care in England, 1650–1750 Matthew Neufeld 9780228020592
$69.72From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to care at hospitals run by the navy. Early Modern Naval Health Care in... -
A Brief History of the Titanic - Fascinating Historical Facts of Titanic's Tragic Tale by Scott Matthews 9781923168077
RRP: $20.98$17.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923168077Author Scott MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Alex GibbonsPublisher Alex GibbonsWeight(grams) 91g