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Classical Destinations by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780142004838
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $21.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Boston Globe Best Book of the Year and LA Times Best Book of the Year and New York Times Notable Book and... -
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142414583Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Impr -
Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123972Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Impr -
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125327Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Impr -
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Book and Booklist Editor's Choice and Boston Globe Best 12 Books and Chicago Tribune Best Books... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780141001821
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $17.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible odds or of insane arrogance receiving its rightful comeuppance, Custer's... -
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110194Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Impr -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780006531203
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. ... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780006531203 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $5.56The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. ... -
Completely Mad: Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the Epic Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic by James R. Hansen 9781639366934
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From the New York Times bestselling author of First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary-and extraordinarily different-adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to... -
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle by James Donovan
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.26In June of 1876, on a hill above a river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this... -
Dark Water: Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction by Elizabeth Lowry 9781786485625
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction'Eloquent, impressive . . . while her touch is witty, her manner almost buoyant, her themes are sinister beyond belief. She touches the... -
The Wager by David Grann 9781471183706
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.73THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* 'The beauty of The Wager... -
Completely Mad: Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the Epic Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic James R. Hansen 9781639364176
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.17From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary-and extraordinarily different-adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition... -
The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy by Sean Kingsley 9781639365951
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77The 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... -
God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England by James A. Warren 9781501180422
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.99The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: "a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses... -
George Washington and the Irish: Incredible Stories of the Irish Spies, Soldiers, and Workers who Helped Free America by Niall O'Dowd
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10Discover the untold story of the vital role the Irish played in the American Revolution.George Washington changed the world and saved democracy by defeating the British during the American War of... -
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict by Eric B. Schultz 9781581574890
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.06At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history... -
1941: Politics, Espionage and the Secret Pact between Churchill and Roosevelt by Marc Wortman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Throughout 1941, President Roosevelt concocted ingenious ways to come to Winston Churchill's aid, without breaking... -
A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier Diana Preston 9780552772105
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for... -
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: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.52Discover 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... -
Skeletons On The Zahara by Dean King
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against... -
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 9780099511182
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan ... -
The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin by Daniel James Brown 9781447210986 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.37Now a major motion picture, directed by George Clooney.From the Great Depression to Nazi Germany, The Boys in the Boat is the astonishing true story of the 1936 American men's eight rowing team on... -
Temple to the Wind: Nathanael Herreshoff And The Yacht That Transformed The America'S Cup by Christopher L. Pastore 9780762784356
Booksplease Price: $19.00By the turn of the twentieth century, racing for the America's Cup was no longer simply a gentleman's game. Fraught with danger and political tension, the contest for the Cup had become a showcase of... -
Captain's Dinner Adam Cohen 9781835016220
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder.'A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can... -
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides 9781780747453
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as the 'unattainable object of our dreams', and the urge to fill in this... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary... -
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.73'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMESLISTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES,... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $24.80In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll 9780393080650
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $41.73In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier... -
The History of Sound Ben Shattuck 9781800754829
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Now a major movie starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor'Triumphant' The Times 'Stellar' Daily Mail 'Exceptionally accomplished' The Scotsman 'Exquisite' Sunday Post In twelve luminous stories... -
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Richard Hurowitz 9780063037243
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55"In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked... -
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of "moby-Dick" by Richard J King
Booksplease Price: $36.15Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet...