Maritime History & Piracy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387551040Author James B BattlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 218g

Celebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are not well understood today. Yet, these vessels transported in bulk essential minerals and ores, grains, timber, and other commodities and...

In the waters around China, the "golden age of piracy" stretched for nearly three centuries. Over those years, there was an unprecedented advance in Chinese piracy unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. This book uses primary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780969588580Author Frank BroezeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint International Maritime Economic History AssociationPublisher International Maritime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973893496Author Henry T. ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint International Maritime Economic History AssociationPublisher International Maritime...

A first-hand account of the Lusitania's doomed final voyage.On May 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner R.M.S. Lusitania as it passed the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland on its way to Liverpool, England...

Become an eyewitness to the tragic story of the Titanic - from its incredible construction, catastrophic sinking, and lasting legacy. Travel back to the year 1912 and experience the Titanic's fateful maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179286Author R. Bruce MacdonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939511471Author Mystic Seaport MuseumFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport MuseumWeight(grams) 118g

This engaging overview of Maine's maritime history ranges from early Native American travel and fishing to pre-Plymouth European settlements, wars, international trade, shipbuilding, boom-and-bust fisheries, immigrant quarrymen, quick-lime production,...

Sea Struck brings alive the final decades of square-rigged sail through the accounts of voyages made on three ships by three young men from Massachusetts. There is plenty of adventure here— storms, men overboard, discipline that bordered on brutality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948585194Author Kevin JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Leapfrog PressPublisher Leapfrog PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949467185Author Nancy RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint John F Blair PublisherPublisher John F Blair Publisher

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939511365Author Dr Stuart M FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport Museum

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820360706Author Kylie A. HulbertFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g

The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the...

Sea stories are, plain and simple, wonderful springboards for vicarious adventure. There is nothing like a sea story to entertain, thrill, move, shock, or inpsire a reader, and this collection will do just that.What is it about the sea that lends itself...

The Red Sea is one of the worlds most important trade routes, a theater of power struggle among local, regional and global powers. Military and political developments continue to impact on the geostrategic landscape of the region in the context of its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012778Author Peter PadfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

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Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focussed on capital ships, Jutland and perhaps U-boats. Very little has been published about the crucial role played by fishermen, fishing...

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Being aboard a sinking ship is perhaps the most terrifying experience a human being can endure. Imagine those last peaceful moments as the vessel beneath you slides quickly into the dark waters that only moments before you had so confidently glided...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194108Author Valerie HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907771579Author Ben WarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Maritime BooksPublisher MCI Media Ltd

The global legacy of mutiny and revolution on the high seas. Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation...

Canadian Pacific Steamships was a worldwide travel network that included great passenger ships. Their highpoint for that arm might have been in the Twenties & Thirties. First, they had a superb transpacific service, Vancouver to and from the Orient, with...

Royal Bargemasters have been serving their monarchs for over 800 years, yet their story has never been told. Always working in close proximity to their sovereigns, they have witnessed and played their part in many of the important events in our country's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179798Author R. Bruce MacdonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

The loss of East Indiaman HCS `Halsewell' on the coast of Dorset in southern England in January 1786, touched the very heart of the British nation. `Halsewell' was just one of many hundreds of vessels which had been in the service of the Honourable East...

Beyond Trawlertown takes a journey through the British distant-water fishery and its port-city connections in an era of disruption. In 1976, defeat in the Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars saw the British trawling fleet excluded from their traditional hunting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956065520Author MR Paul ChambersFormat PaperbackImprint Charonia MediaPublisher Charonia MediaWeight(grams) 1428g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRobert Antony is professor emeritus at Guangzhou University and University of Macau.Book InformationISBN 9781538161531Author Robert J. AntonyFormat PaperbackPage...

"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bialuschewski present a wonderfully diverse body of primary texts on sea raiders. Drawn from a variety of...

Hartlepool's links with the sea go back into the mists of time; for centuries fishermen used the Fish Sands to land their catches when Hartlepool was a small isolated village. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the coming of steam the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767909068Author Ed O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Gabriela A. Frei addresses the interaction between international maritime law and maritime strategy in a historical context, arguing that both international law and maritime strategy are based on long-term state interests. Great Britain as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528920759Author John BendallFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of John Lyman Book Award 2023 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781550179873Author Robert G. AllanFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Harbour...

Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a...