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Diesels for the First Stealth Weapon: Submarine Power 1902-1945
by Lyle Cummins
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A comprehensive and profusely illustrated history of the world's submarine diesels from origins to peak of perfection in World War II. It tells of their designers, builders and the dedicated submariners caring for these always state of the art engines... ( read more)
Your price: $55.00
New - Hardcover
Last Dinner on the Titanic Menus and Recipes From the Great Liner
by Rick Archbold
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Last Dinner on the Titanic reproduces exactly what it was like to feast on the most famous of all passenger ships. Sixty recipes reworked for the modern kitchen allow readers to experience for themselves such Epicurean delights as Lobster Thermidor and... ( read more)
List Price $25.95
Your price: $8.98
Sale - Hardcover
Troubleshooting Marine Diesels (International Marine Sailboat Library)
by Peter Compton
Publisher Comments
This densely illustrated, hands-on guide to diesel engine maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair renders its subject more user-friendly than ever before. Finally, boatowners who grew up with gas engines can set aside their fears about tinkering with... ( read more)
Your price: $21.95
New - Hardcover
A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
by John Steele Gordon
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Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe?the center of world affairs?was only as quick as the fastest ship could... ( read more)
List Price $13.95
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper
How to Read a Nautical Chart
by Nigel Calder
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The best handbook on chart usage, from one of the most trusted names in boating In 2000, the U.S. government ceased publication of Chart No. 1, the invaluable little book that generations of mariners have consulted to make sense of the complex system of... ( read more)
List Price $18.95
Your price: $16.95
New - Trade Paper
Boater's Pocket Reference: Your Comprehensive Resource for Boats and Boating
by Thomas Mcewen
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800 pages, 435 illustrations, 94 photographs, index. Handy, fact-filled new boating guide offers, how-to-do-it information and reference facts, figures, formulas, graphs, and tables about boating in a book small enough (about 3" x 5" x 1") to fit in your... ( read more)
Your price: $14.95
New - Trade Paper
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
by Gary Kinder
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In September 1857, the S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina coast. More than 400 men — and 21 tons of gold — were lost. In the... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Coastal Companion: A Guide to the Inside Passage, Including Puget Sound, BC and Alaska
by Joe Upton
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Ready for a cruise up the coast? Here's a great way to explore every mile of it, including the Inside Passage. More than a guide, "The Coastal Companion" is a fascinating meander up the coast, with stories, maps and photographs, all keyed to the author's... ( read more)
Your price: $19.95
New - Trade Paper
The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War Against the Pirates of North Africa
by Frederick C. Leiner
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When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he sent the... ( read more)
List Price $28.00
Your price: $10.98
Sale - Hardcover
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told
by Christopher Caswell
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The best sailing yarns from Sir Ernest Shackleton and Joshua Slocum to William F... ( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
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