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The Forgotten Lifeboats of Tyrella by Barbara Lomas
RRP: $20.98$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527254503Author Barbara LomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Bird Rock PressPublisher Bird Rock Press -
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips
RRP: $46.20$33.64When 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... -
In the Wake of Heroes: Sailing's Greatest Stories Introduced by Tom Cunliffe by Tom Cunliffe
RRP: $27.28$20.56Tom Cunliffe is one of the biggest names in the sailing world - an internationally renowned journalist and speaker, and the go-to guru when the BBC wants a presenter for a new TV series about maritime interests. For the last ten years he has edited... -
The Men of the Mary Rose: Raising the Dead by A. J. Stirland
RRP: $39.88$30.07The Mary Rose was one of King Henry VIII's favourite warships until she sank during an engagement with the French fleet on 19 July 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology. Apart from the Captain and... -
Battleships: The World's Greatest Battleships from the 16th Century to the Gulf War by David Ross
RRP: $41.98$30.77For 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... -
Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns since 1700 by Peter Borsay 9781845411978
RRP: $62.90$56.51Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from... -
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
RRP: $27.28$19.09'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... -
Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw
RRP: $42.00$30.85'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' The Times The British evacuation from the beaches of the... -
Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas by David Kenyon 9780300269444
RRP: $42.00$36.50An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by... -
Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King 9780241642269
RRP: $52.50$37.84'An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen'Colourful and inventive' The TimesSailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight... -
Dark Side of the Cut: A History of Crime on Britain's Canals by Susan Law 9781803993300
RRP: $42.00$31.58There 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... -
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898 by Bernard Edwards
RRP: $31.48$23.00On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy's African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas... -
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
RRP: $23.08$15.23An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last 'grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby - later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent - set sail aboard... -
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and One Man's Ultimate Test by Matt Lewis
RRP: $23.08$16.32In 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... -
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
RRP: $27.28$17.98As 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... -
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason
RRP: $23.08$15.37'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 Royal Navy Officer's Pocket-Book by Brian Lavery
RRP: $20.98$14.93""The art of command is...to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.' A Seaman's Pocket-Book, 1943', has found... -
Lighthouse by Tony Parker 9780907871583
RRP: $31.48$20.58An 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 Nautical Puzzle Book by The National Maritime Museum
RRP: $39.88$27.62__________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... -
Convoys: The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America by Roger Knight 9780300273403
RRP: $27.28$24.07The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars-showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by... -
Tyne Slipway Lifeboats: The RNLI's 47ft Tyne lifeboats, their design and history by Nicholas Leach
RRP: $16.80$12.18Apologies 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 -
Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588 by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: $63.00$52.19The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised Selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2023 "Will surely become the definitive account."-Stephen Brumwell, Wall Street Journal In July 1588 the... -
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
RRP: $52.50$34.71Sunday 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... -
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet by Tom Nancollas
RRP: $23.08$14.95'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... -
Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom by Iain Ballantyne
RRP: $23.08$14.70Now 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... -
The British Lighthouse Trail: A Regional Guide by Sarah Kerr 9781849954402
RRP: $39.88$33.71Lighthouses have been used as aids to maritime navigation for centuries. They are highly recognisable and beloved features of our coastline and waterways, treasured by communities and captivating visitors. But how many are there and is it really possible... -
The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven and the Age of Sail by Philip Marsden
RRP: $23.08$13.69The story of Britain's colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth. Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute... -
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey 9781915563002
RRP: $23.08$15.37'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL... -
Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $27.28$17.98'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen... -
Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights 1906-2006 by Diane Kirkby
$233.37Winner 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... -
Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything by Rose George 9781846272998
RRP: $23.08$15.37An 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... -
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage by Martin Robson
RRP: $20.98$13.69As 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... -
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
RRP: $27.28$14.95In 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... -
Olympic Titanic Britannic: The anatomy and evolution of the Olympic Class by Simon Mills
RRP: $58.78$46.20The 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... -
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea by Terry Breverton
RRP: $39.88$27.62A 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... -
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
RRP: $27.28$19.09'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... -
British Aircraft Carriers 1945–2010 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $27.28$19.09The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Royal Navy's carrier fleet proved essential to the... -
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker
RRP: $27.28$18.06The 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... -
In Fingal's Wake: A Tender Tribute by Trevor Boult 9781445648064
RRP: $42.00$28.01Fingal 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... -
Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances: Vanishings and Undiscovered Shipwrecks by Richard M Jones 9781399046213
RRP: $46.20$32.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.