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Titanic Voices: 63 Survivors Tell Their Extraordinary Stories by Hannah Holman
RRP: £22.00£15.20There were over 700 survivors of the Titanic disaster and their horrific experience has captivated readers and moviegoers for over 100 years. But what was it actually like for a woman to say goodbye to her husband? For a mother to leave her teenage sons?... -
The Nautical Puzzle Book The National Maritime Museum 9781529322811
RRP: £18.99£13.34__________Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue!__________Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean?The Nautical... -
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and One Man's Ultimate Test by Matt Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.99In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. The captain is fatally slow to act, and then paralyzed by fear. The officers flee for their lives. Only the actions of... -
Dark Side of the Cut: A History of Crime on Britain's Canals by Susan Law 9781803993300
RRP: £20.00£15.04There is something strangely compelling about the waterways. Isolated places on the edge of society, they have always had their own distinctive way of life and a certain shady reputation. Ever since the earliest days, canals have attracted crime, with... -
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson 9780316703635
RRP: £16.99£11.27Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England-perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough... -
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason
RRP: £10.99£7.54'A joyously peculiar book' - The New York Times'A fascinating insight into Icelandic culture and a fresh perspective on her global influence. Warning: may well make readers wish they were Icelandic, too.' - Helen Russell, author of The Year of Living... -
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: £20.00£14.91The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. It describes not just battles, voyages... -
Lighthouse Tony Parker 9780907871583
RRP: £14.99£10.05An extraordinary collection of interviews with lighthouse keepers and their families, in their own words - a record of a vanished profession and a vanished Britain of the 1970s. Described by William Golding as "one of the most fascinating social... -
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker
RRP: £12.99£8.56The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this... -
Battleships: The World's Greatest Battleships from the 16th Century to the Gulf War by David Ross
RRP: £19.99£14.86For more than 400 years, the big-gun warship stood as the supreme naval war machine. It was not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation's power, wealth and pride. Battleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have... -
Tyne Slipway Lifeboats: The RNLI's 47ft Tyne lifeboats, their design and history by Nicholas Leach
RRP: £8.00£5.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909540194Author Nicholas LeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Foxglove Publishing LtdPublisher Foxglove Publishing Ltd -
The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy by Angus Konstam 9781472857736
RRP: £25.00£17.62This 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... -
Messages from the Sea: Letters and Notes from a Lost Era Found in Bottles and on Beaches Around the World by Paul Brown 9780995541214
£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995541214Author Paul BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint SuperelasticPublisher Superelastic -
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
RRP: £25.00£16.53Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.'Bound has a... -
Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom Iain Ballantyne 9781804363409
RRP: £10.99£7.21Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)The epic mission to destroy Hitler's flagship.'Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic ... we had to find and sink her.'May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy's... -
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea by Terry Breverton
RRP: £18.99£13.34A compendium of fascinating information about the great waters that cover two-thirds of our Earth and the men and women that sailed them.Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea. However, unlike many other nautical... -
Hebridean Voyages: An Anthology of Sea Crossings to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1822-1955 by Colin Tucker 9781789070804
RRP: £19.95£17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070804Author Colin TuckerFormat PaperbackImprint AcairPublisher AcairWeight(grams) 1200g -
The Rescue Ships and The Convoys: Saving Lives During The Second World War by B B Schofield 9781036102661
£27.00The 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... -
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
RRP: £12.99£8.80As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat... -
Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found by Gillian Hutchinson
RRP: £20.00£15.96In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage - the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph... -
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World by Charlie Connelly 9781474607926
RRP: £9.99£4.21'A wonderfully quirky history' SUNDAY TIMES'The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Quippy anecdotes are woven with historical reference and geographical context to give full colour' IRISH TIMESA bulwark against... -
Escape The Titanic: Use your wits and solve the puzzles to survive by JOEL JESSUP 9780711286443
RRP: £9.99£7.00Can you escape the sinking Titanic? Make your way up the decks with this exhilarating adventure puzzle book. This exciting escape book is a bustling collection of puzzles set on the Titanic during its sinking in the early hours of 15 April 1912. To... -
Olympic Titanic Britannic: The anatomy and evolution of the Olympic Class by Simon Mills
RRP: £27.99£22.33The Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons. The Olympic Class liners were conceived as the largest, grandest ships ever to set sail. Of the three ships built, the first only... -
Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights 1906-2006 by Diane Kirkby
£96.61Winner of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Prize for 2023 Maritime workers occupy a central place in global labour history. This new and compelling account from Australia, shows seafaring and waterside unions engaged in a... -
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail by Stephen Bown
RRP: £14.99£11.72In the Age of Sail scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses, and its cure ranks among the greatest of military successes - yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored.Stephen Bown searches back to... -
Empire's Crossroads: A New History of the Caribbean by Carrie Gibson
RRP: £12.99£9.50In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the... -
Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything Rose George (Y) 9781846272998
RRP: £10.99£7.54An award-winning investigation into the strange and secretive world of international shipping 'Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling... Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually... -
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
RRP: £12.99£7.33In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who... -
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage by Martin Robson
RRP: £9.99£6.72As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms like these are used in everyday English language conversation and writing. But how many landlubbers know that they derive... -
A History of Sailing in 100 Objects by Barry Pickthall
RRP: £22.00£16.87Did you ever wonder which civilisation first took to water in small craft? Who worked out how to measure distance or plot a course at sea? Or why the humble lemon rose to such prominence in the diets of sailors? Taking one hundred objects that have... -
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the... -
Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £12.99£7.33From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in... -
Seaside 100: A History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects by Kathryn Ferry
RRP: £14.99£11.36Sandcastles, donkeys, piers and sticks of rock. Beach huts, paddle steamers, promenade shelters and ice cream cones. Our modern seaside is the sum of its parts and all those parts have their history. This book explores the best-loved features of our... -
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account of his... -
The Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors by Jay Henry Mowbray
RRP: £14.99£11.11I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship. There fell on the... -
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet by Tom Nancollas
RRP: £10.99£7.33'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision... -
Exploring the Britannic by Simon Mills
RRP: £28.00£22.35Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twin in every way. But war intervened and in 1915 she was requisitioned as a hospital ship. Just one year... -
In Fingal's Wake: A Tender Tribute by Trevor Boult 9781445648064
RRP: £20.00£13.34Fingal represented the last and final 'classic' style of tender once found throughout the three General Lighthouse Authorities of the British Isles. Performing a wide range of duties at Oban and at Stromness, Fingal served all the area needs of the... -
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail by Stephen Taylor
RRP: £22.50£17.98A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare"No other book resurrects the wooden world of Jack Tar in such captivating and voluminous detail."-Roger Ekirch, Wall... -
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips
RRP: £22.00£16.27When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed...