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Pirates: Predators of the Seas: An Illustrated History by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments Pirate culture has occupied our imaginations for generations. But what were pirates really like? Here, take a tour of piracy from the ancient world through modern times, discovering the truth behind the myths. Perfect for a coffee table and substantial... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Ten Degrees of Reckoning: The True Story of a Family's Love and the Will to Survive by Hester Rumberg Publisher Comments A profoundly powerful and inspirational memoir. In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to live their dream: to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course by a mere ten... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea by Linda Greenlaw Publisher Comments America's only female swordfish boat captain returns with this long- awaited follow-up to the bestselling The Hungry Ocean. After the exploits recounted in The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean that made her a sensation, Linda Greenlaw took a ten- year... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood Publisher Comments The true story that's "bloody good entertainment" (New York Times) about the colorful and legendary pirates of the 17th century. If not for today's news stories about piracy on the high seas, it'd be easy to think of pirating as a romantic way... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Overboard!: A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival by Michael J Tougias Publisher Comments From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet. In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the Almeisan, and his first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean by Roz Savage Publisher Comments Stuck in a corporate job rut and an unraveling marriage, Roz Savage realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasnt going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Batavias Graveyard the True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led Historys Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash Publisher Comments The true story of a mad heretic who led history's bloodiest mutiny. Bestseller in hardback. Popular history in the tradition of Giles Milton. Strong non-fiction for Summer round-ups. "An adult version of "Lord Of The Flies" that is, moreover, entirely... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pirates: A History by Tim Travers Publisher Comments Most histories of piracy start with swashbuckling adventures in the Caribbean in the 1500s and move on to the Golden Age of piracy from the 1660s to the 1720s. These areas cannot be overlooked, but in fact, piracy has a much longer and broader... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Celestial Navigation by Jeff Toghill Publisher Comments In fact, the maximum mathematics involved in the new sight reduction systems is the addition of three lines of figures. Similarly, the apparent complexities of the solar and stellar systems take on a less frightening appearance when related to the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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After You, Mr. Lear: In the Wake of Edward Lear in Italy by Maldwin Drummond Publisher Comments In the United States, Edward Lear is best remembered for his delightful limericks and other nonsense poetry. In 1996, Maldwin and his wife Gilly set off in their sailing yacht Gang Warily through the rivers and canals of France to the Mediterranean and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Caliban Shore the Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways by Stephen Taylor Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The Fate Of The Grosvenor Castaways". The enthralling true story of a famous eighteenth century shipwreck, the Grosvenor, and of what befell the ship's castaways on the Wild Coast of Africa.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Illustrated Pirate Diaries: A Remarkable Eyewitness Account of Captain Morgan and the Buccaneers by Alexande Exquemelin Publisher Comments "Morgan hurled himself at the fuse, and saved all his comrades' lives. His bravery was already the stuff of legend, and this exploit made his men even more determined to follow him anywhere." Of all the pirates to terrorize the Caribbean waters, none... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship by Barry Clifford Publisher Comments The riveting story of the slave ship Whydah,captured by pirates and later sunk in a fierce storm off the coast of Massachusetts, energizes this lavish companion book to a unique exhibition on a five-year U.S. tour. Packed with plunder from more than 50... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pirate Code: From Honorable Thieves to Modern-Day Villains by Brenda Ralph Lewis Publisher Comments Despite what countless buccaneering books and movies may suggest, never has there been a universal Pirate Code to bind the merry (and mean) marauders of seafaring history. In fact there have been many “codes,” and drawing out their common... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them by John Silverwood Publisher Comments “I told God that if he would let us survive this night, I would make it mean something worthwhile. And then, somehow, I felt calmer than I have ever felt. Unreasonably so. Irrationally so. I looked over the scene of our wrecked life and I smiled... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage by Anthony Brandt Publisher Comments After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention by Andrea Sutcliffe Publisher Comments "An absorbing and enlightening tale of 'Yankee ingenuity' at the very dawn of the steam age." --John Steele Gordon, author of A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable "What a ride! It's all there: duplicity, steamy intrigue... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered -- Captain James Cook. This... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Curse of the Narrows by Laura Macdonald Publisher Comments Before Hiroshima, there was Halifax. In 1917 the busy Canadian port was crowded with ships leaving for war-torn Europe. On December 6, two of them, the Mont Blanc and the Imo, collided in the hard-to-navigate Narrows of the harbor. Within minutes, the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ted Hood Through Hand and Eye an Autobiography by Ted Hood Publisher Comments From inventive sail-maker to innovative yacht designer to successful America's Cup skipper, Ted Hood has had a legendary career. Also legendary was his reputation as a man of few words, making him an intriguing presence in the yachting world. Still... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $25.00 Sale - Hardcover
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