Maritime History & Piracy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223316343Author David Ep DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint David Ep DennisPublisher David Ep DennisWeight(grams) 159g

This book is the first modern analysis of the coasting trade in Elizabethan England. Drawing on a significant body of evidence, including evidence from the port books of Bristol, Southampton and Hull, as well as from a much broader array of early modern...

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A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present—of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the worldOff the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River...

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Today, the Mayflower II—the replica of the 1620 ship that brought the Pilgrims to America and launched a nation—is visited by some 2.6 million tourists annually and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But there is much more to the...

Few maritime landscapes in the Great Lakes remain so deeply and clearly inscribed by successive cultures as the St. Clair system—a river, delta, and lake found between Lake Huron and the Detroit River. The St. Clair River and its environs are an age-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954786486Author Jonathan P HawleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Mission Point PressPublisher Mission Point PressWeight(grams) 585g

Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century Delves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitment of seamen, its fractious labour relations and mutinies, and how these were resolved by law. One chapter...

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‘The Laws of all Nations … define & declare a Pirate to be an Enemy of Mankind … He is perhaps the only Criminal on Earth, whose crime cannot be absolutely pardoned … a Pirate is equally an Enemy and dangerous to all Societies … Piracy is in its self a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041918454Author Miguel De CastanhosoFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374294Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Horse's MouthPublisher Horse's MouthWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628062113Author Randolph GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Salt Water Media, LLCPublisher Salt Water Media, LLCWeight(grams) 454g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980051612Author James E MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint Royal Exchange PublicationsPublisher Royal Exchange PublicationsWeight(grams) 785g

On the morning of December 22, 1853, a brand new steamship left New York Harbor on its maiden voyage. The length of a football field, the San Francisco was arguably the best-made ocean-going vessel built up to that time, and had been chartered by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820360713Author Kylie A. HulbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. The ship carried emigrants from the Palatinate and its...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982941522Author Christian C CouchFormat PaperbackImprint Compass Headings PublishingPublisher Compass Headings PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966390971Author Kristin DelaplaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Rapidsoft PressPublisher Rapidsoft PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473360467Author S J GarlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Maple Kakapo LimitedPublisher Maple Kakapo LimitedWeight(grams) 435g

A detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy's greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact The greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692980378Author Pyara Bagg SandhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Cornelia Srey Lang Srey and Pyara Sandhu, Writers,Publisher Cornelia Srey Lang...

On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. A chaotic Admiralty had made no adequate arrangements for their...

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau. Angus Konstam, one of the world's leading pirate experts, has brought his 30 years of research to create...

This book explores the idea of privacy at sea, from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and economic ambition as technological and cultural shifts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385544764Author Hampton SidesFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 748g

This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of ‘sailor talk.’ The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785278280Author Yda SchreuderFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

On 4 March 1824, thirty philanthropic gentlemen – including the abolitionist William Wilberforce and Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Manners-Sutton – met in a London pub. Here, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was born.In the following 200 years,...

On the 4th of December 1872, when Captain Morehouse of the sailing ship Dei Gratia called out 'Ahoy!' to a fellow vessel in the middle of the Atlantic, he could never have anticipated that he was about to discover one of the greatest maritime mysteries...

From elite officers to ordinary sailors, the portrayal of naval personnel has been a significant branch of British art for over 500 years. The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich holds the largest collection of naval portraits in the world, including...

The incredible story of the “Robin Hood of the Seas,” who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret.Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished...