Maritime History & Piracy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541758582Author Brandon PresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs

The United States has long been dependent on the seas, but Americans know little about their maritime history. While Britain and other countries have established national museums to nurture their seagoing traditions, America has left that responsibility...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536150407Author Logan MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 638g

Two of mankind's most persistent quests-"get rich quick" and "something for nothing"-provide the power driving these tales of treasure-seekers in action. Renowned storytellers like Louis L'Amour and Jack London join real-life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500294406Author Steven AshbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 140mm...

This new title in this bestselling series relates 37 stories of  shipwrecks,  great  discoveries,  mysteries,  and disappearances still thrilling adventure seekers.From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, from the Baltic Sea to the Caribbean, the...

Dennis Hale reached the dock just in time to see the Daniel J. Morrell heading out to open waters, a 600-foot freighter that had plied the waters for sixty years, carrying ore from Minnesota’s Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. The...

"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...

The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on...

This volume explores nonhuman animals’ involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail—as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship...

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially situated. Piracy is understood as acts and practices that emerge in zones where the construction and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789508437Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506667Author Gavin McLeanFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 700g

Pasco's Boatyard started in 1771. When it was sold to new owners Craig Brown and Chris De Glanville in 2013, one of their aims was to preserve the traditions of wooden boats in the St Just Creek, and to foster the shipwright skills required to build and...

A beautifully illustrated sailing classic. This rare memoir opens onto the early adventures of a 12-year-old boy sent to sea after the tragic deaths of his sister and father and the impending poverty of his mother. Not for these alone did the book draw...

• This book explores how European colonial empires addressed the questions of how to manage diversity from both terrestrial and maritime colonies such as the West Indies, Africa, India, the Caribbean and North and South America providing students with a...

Presenting community-based case studies and guidance on survey methodologies, the book offers insights into the documentation and analysis of coastal heritage, and the potential of digital tools. Communities living along the coast, who are deeply...

An exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy that balances a sociological investigation into maritime state power with epic storytelling. Early in the seventeenth-century boom of seafaring, piracy was a fertile ground for many enterprising...

In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily armed ship and its crew captured all manner of riches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994517852Author George HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Thalassic PressPublisher Thalassic PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335429841Author Daphne Palmer GeanacopoulosFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams)...

The book is the first to detail the 170-year evolution of the powered bulk carriers which continue to have a major role in the world’s trades and economies. Their design and technological development is traced from the screw colliers of the 1850s which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982128265Author A E RooksFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951274627Author Michael FleemanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Centennial BooksPublisher Centennial BooksWeight(grams) 203g

In 2009, 319 years after its publication, and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation about the work, Jose F. Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes...

Being an island nation, the ocean is never too far from Sri Lanka. Situated right at the center of the world's busiest sea lanes of communication, the geography connects the country with the Indian Ocean, and its destiny is linked to this strategic body...

How three white, non-elite American sailors turned their experiences of captivity into diverse career opportunities-and influenced America's physical, commercial, ideological, and diplomatic development.Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North...

A New York Times bestsellling author separates history from myth from the Pharaohs to Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to today. Soon after the first maritime trade routes became operational, seafaring bandits appeared to prey upon the cargo, crews, and...

Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing...

Featuring the real person who inspired Jack London's The Sea-Wolf, Roar of the Sea is a swashbuckling narrative of treachery and obsession involving pirates, fur seals, competing governments, and near war. Over a century ago, treachery in Alaska's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563631Author A. Roger EkirchFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101970355Author Lincoln PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint VintagePublisher VintageWeight(grams) 1089g

As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie's journey was conducted under the auspices of the London-based East India Company and was one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062699879Author Rachel SladeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584236436Author Matteo GuarnacciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, Inc

Few men have lived such an extraordinary life as Admiral Albert Hastings Markham. Besides dedicating five decades of his career to the Royal Navy, Markham was a voracious reader, prolific writer, keen naturalist, and daring explorer. He battled Chinese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250619433Author Peter MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 23mm

Fishing for Souls explores the origins and development of fishermen's missions in Britain, focussing particularly on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book is the first to view the entire picture of a significant, although not broadly...

The discovery of shipwrecks has unveiled the remarkable stories behind the vessels and the lives of the people that sailed on them. Some, however, are shrouded in mystery, never having been raised from the depths of the sea: Henry VIII's flagship the...

In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived the wreck, only to become victims of a visionary...