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Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness by Andrew Lambert
RRP: £8.99£5.92Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe's classic novel about the adventures of a shipwrecked sailor. Yet the complex story of Britain's relationship with this distant, tiny island... -
Inis Oírr – The Jewel of the Aran Islands by Michael O' Flanagan 9781781178454
RRP: £28.99£20.28Inis Oirr is the smallest and most easterly of the Aran Islands situated at the mouth of Galway Bay, Ireland. Renowned for its captivating beauty, this unique book documents the island from the 1970s to the present day in stunning photographic form,... -
Voices from the Shoreline: The Ancient & Ingenious Traditions of Coastal Fishing by Mike Smylie
RRP: £20.00£15.04For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods passed down from father to son. Some of these ancient traditions have been traced back as far as the days when the men from... -
Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche by Serge Bile
RRP: £14.95£9.86#1 New Release in Caribbean & West Indies History - Discover the True Story Behind One of the Black Passengers on the TitanicAn Incredible Tragedy: Joseph Laroche was an anomaly among the passengers of the Titanic. He was exceptionally well-educated in a... -
Mayflower Manual: The Pilgrim Fathers' historic voyage of 1620 by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: £25.00£14.75Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 and the establishment of the first colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Haynes Mayflower Manual tells the story of how the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth in Devon to... -
Rise of the Aircraft Carrier: Pacific Naval Strategy 1941-1945 by James Bergeron 9781838010737
£17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838010737Author James BergeronFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Paul HoneywillPublisher Paul HoneywillDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 20mm -
The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk By a Whale by Owen Chase 9780140437966
£10.62The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film, In the Heart of the Sea.In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was sailing in the South Pacific when it was rammed by an angry... -
Britannia's Dragon: A Naval History of Wales by J. D. Davies 9780752470139
RRP: £18.99£14.72Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present.Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major... -
Pirates and Privateers in the 18th Century: The Final Flourish by Mike Rendell 9781526731654
RRP: £19.99£13.09Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifestyle, looking at how the sinking of the Spanish treasure fleet in a storm off the coast of Florida led to a... -
The Fishing Boats Story by Mike Smylie 9780750969970
RRP: £9.99£7.55Britain has a history of producing and using a wonderful array of fishing boats, some of which still sail under private ownership. These older vessels developed in their own unique ways, dependent on local traditions, the type of fishing, their place of... -
The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900 by Duncan Redford
£55.27Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast changes to the way it operates. This book tells the story, not just of defeats and victories, but also of how the navy has adjusted to over 100 years of rapid technological and social change. The navy has... -
Cardiff: A Maritime History by John Richards 9780752435688
RRP: £14.99£11.55Cardiff has a long and momentous maritime history. This richly researched volume delves into the maritime past of Cardiff and Penarth, providing a comprehensive account from the first stirrings of seaborne trade and the cargoes of wool, hides and butter,... -
Admirals by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: £14.99£9.80The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through the lives... -
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
RRP: £25.00£18.02The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates-a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers-gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on... -
Daredevils of the Atlantic Ocean: Unusual Crossings in Unlikely Vessels by Peter Firstbrook 9781948494342
RRP: £21.00£14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948494342Author Peter FirstbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seaworthy Publications Inc.Publisher Seaworthy Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster by Michael Hughes
RRP: £14.99£12.26Published to mark the centenary of the sinking, this book tells the story of the Titanic from a new angle: the role of wireless in the disaster. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless... -
Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse, The: the End of the Battleship Era by Martin Middlebrook 9781844150755
£20.26On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle... -
Heroes of the RNLI: The Storm Warriors by Martyn R Beardsley
RRP: £16.99£11.27Whenever vessels have foundered off the coasts of Britain, there have always been those willing to give their all to save those in peril. But in 1823, Sir William Hillary decided that this admirable but impromptu approach was not enough. He believed that... -
Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks and Britain, 1854-2007 by Ian Friel
RRP: £25.00£17.62Following _Britain and the Ocean Road_, Ian Friel expertly navigates the history of Britain and the sea from the Middle Ages to modern times. With _Breaking Seas, Broken Ships_, we follow the story of Britain's maritime history through some of it's most... -
The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest by Daniel Baugh
RRP: £36.99£35.74In this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasizes the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also furnishing strategic opportunities. Special attention is paid to undertakings - always French - that... -
Conspiracies at Sea: Titanic and Lusitania by J. Kent Layton
RRP: £30.00£19.93Great disasters always attract conspiracy theories and this is just as true of disasters at sea as it is of those on land or in the air. The sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania, two of the great maritime disasters of the twentieth century, have... -
Tales from Great Passenger Ships: A Jaunt Through Time by Paul Curtis
RRP: £18.99£14.32Passenger ships have always played a key role in shaping our lives and destinies. From the biggest to the smallest, the most beautiful to the most basic, in peacetime and war, they have carried emigrants, holidaymakers, troops and other travellers on... -
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
RRP: £18.99£13.02'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last page.' - Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Men Without... -
The Titanic Sisters by Patricia Falvey
RRP: £7.99£5.46One journey will change their lives forever__________________________________To follow her dreams, she must sacrifice everything...Sisters Nora and Delia have been given the chance of a lifetime - to escape their poor Irish farm and travel on the Titanic... -
The Grand Fleet 1914-19: The Royal Navy in the First World War by Daniel George Ridley-Kitts
RRP: £19.99£15.42During the First World War the reputation of the British Royal Navy was put on the line in its defence of the country, and, crucially, it was in those years, 1914-19, that the Grand Fleet became the single most potent weapon of war of any nation. In this... -
The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual by National Maritime Museum
RRP: £9.99£5.92Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal and the... -
Trim, The Cartographer's Cat by Matthew Flinders
RRP: £15.99£11.61Not many ships' cats have even one memorial statue, let alone six. But Trim does, including one outside Euston Station in London, proudly unveiled by Prince William on the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders's death - 19 July 2014. Trim was the ship's... -
Sea Dogs: Life Aboard an English Galleon by James Seay Dean
RRP: £14.99£11.55'James Seay Dean is the noted authority on these voyages ... he provides a sympathetic treatment of life aboard ship in some of the most challenging circumstances these redoubtable sailors faced "beyond the line".' - Professor Barry Gough, maritime... -
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain by Margaret Willson
RRP: £12.99£8.13A daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality-and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies.Every day was a fight for... -
Jane Slade of Polruan: The Inspiration for Du Maurier's First Novel by Helen Doe 9781850221623
RRP: £9.99£5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850221623Author Helen DoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint TruranPublisher TruranDimensions(mm) 240mm * 175mm * 15mm -
Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775 - 1815 by Daniel S MacCannell
RRP: £25.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526753458Author Daniel S MacCannellFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword MilitaryWeight(grams) 165g -
A Seaman's Pocketbook: June 1943, by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty by Brian Lavery
RRP: £9.99£5.92At the height of the Second World War this small pocket-book was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy. In straight period prose it outlines all the basic expressions and tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently... -
Curlew Coast: Diversions on maritime Suffolk by Judith Ellis
RRP: £16.50£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999783938Author Judith EllisFormat HardbackImprint Red Herring PublishingPublisher Red Herring Publishing -
Shipwrecks of the P&O Line by Sam Warwick 9780750962926
RRP: £25.00£19.54The rich history of the P&O Line began in the 1830s when steam power was still in its infancy, and this, coupled with longer voyages, meant that shipwrecks became inevitable - all part of the risk of running a pioneer shipping company at that time... -
River, Coast and Creek: - an Exploration of Maritime Essex by Judith Ellis 9781999783952
RRP: £16.50£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999783952Author Judith EllisFormat HardbackImprint Red Herring PublishingPublisher Red Herring Publishing -
Smuggling by Chris McCooey
RRP: £10.99£7.12A smuggler ... 'honest thief' or 'wretch'? Opinion was divided some 200 years ago when smuggling was in its heyday and known as 'that infamous traffick'. Charles Lamb, the essayist, was in favour when he wrote in the early 1800s, 'I like a smuggler;... -
The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World by Wim Klooster 9780801450457
RRP: £33.00£29.45The author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and printed sources.... The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to the field. Renaissance Quarterly In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire... -
ShipCraft 26: Riverine Craft of the Vietnam Wars by Roger Branfill-Cook
RRP: £14.99£10.95The ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and... -
From Cabin `Boys' to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea by Jo Stanley 9780752488783
RRP: £20.00£15.44Traditionally, a woman's place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waves on everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring... -
Navigation: A Very Short Introduction by Jim Bennett
RRP: £8.99£6.61From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is fascinating. The scientific and technological...