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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Staff Pick The heyday of whaling examined through the plight of the Whaleship Essex. This is the best sort of popular history writing.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments In 1519, Magellan, five ships, and more than two hundred men set sail from Spain to find a water route to the Spice Islands. Despite suffering starvation, disease, torture, and death, they discovered the passageway known today as the Strait of Magellan... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Last Dinner on the Titanic Menus and Recipes From the Great Liner by Rick Archbold Publisher Comments A cookbook designed to recreate the atmosphere of dining on the famous, doomed luxury liner serves up such recipes as Lobster Thermidor, Quail's Eggs in Aspic with Caviar, and Poached Salmon with Dilled Mousseline Sauce and Cucumber.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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How to Build Egyptian Boat Models: Patterns and Instructions for Three Royal Vessels by Jack Sintich Publisher Comments A unique model-building experience, this beginner-level guide details everything needed to create brilliant reproductions of the royal sailing boats of Khufu (ruled ca. 2551–2528 B.C.), Queen Hatshepsut (ruled ca. 1479–1458 B.C.), and Ramses II... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex — an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-436) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization by Kale Bantigue Fajardo Publisher Comments Filipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1.2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the world’s goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters by William Hughes Miller Publisher Comments These true-life adventures unfold amid flames, collision, and explosions, with frantic calls of SOS and a rush to clamber aboard lifeboats. Nearly 200 photographs, many from private collections, highlight tales of the vessels whose pleasure cruises ended... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Penguin Classics) by Richard Henry Dana Publisher Comments The narrative of the author's journey from Boston around the Cape Horn and landing at a port in the western coast of the United States.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lilibet Logs: Restoring a Classic Wooden Boat by Jack Becker Publisher Comments Format 5 3/8" x 8 1/2" Illus. 12 b&w photos ??? The story of an ocean yacht that was too deep for the land of 10,000 lakes. ??? Fans of Garrison Keillor will recognize the Minnesota sense of humor. ??? Great reading for all WoodenBoat fans.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper
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Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker Publisher Comments When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sailboat Hull and Deck Repair (International Marine Sailboat Library) by Don Casey Publisher Comments A fiberglass hull's seamless nature leads many boatowners to conclude that repair must be difficult. Wrong. Here, clearly and abundantly illustrated, is all you need to know to seal joints, bed hardware, replace portlights, locate leaks, fix cracks and... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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The Greatest Little Motor Boat Afloat: The Legendary Disappearing Propeller Boat by Dodington Paul Publisher Comments Before the invention of the outboard motor, Billy Johnston of Port Carling invented the now legendary disappearing propeller boat. A boating classic.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Titanic in Photographs (Titanic Collection) by Daniel Klistorner Publisher Comments The name Titanic has become synonymous with catastrophe, the story of this luxurious liner legendary. Wrecked after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, the loss of around 1,500 lives among her passengers and crew has gone down in history as... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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How to Build Glued Lapstrake Wooden Boats by John Brooks Publisher Comments When you finish reading this book, you?ll understand just what you need to do to build a terrific boat. A boat that is lightweight, forever appealing to the eye, a boat that doesn?t leak and doesn?t require much in the way of upkeep. And, because the... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum by Geoffrey Wolff Publisher Comments A masterful biographer now gives us a thrilling, definitive portrait of the most legendary icon of adventure. Joshua Slocum escaped a Dickensian childhood in Nova Scotia in 1860, at the age of sixteen, as an ordinary seaman. Despite his third-grade... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Guide to Wooden Boats: Schooners, Ketches, Cutters, Sloops, Yawls, Cats by Benjamin Mendlowitz Publisher Comments First published in 1996, this classic pictorial tour of wooden boats showcases a rich collection of images by Benjamin Mendlowitz, the preeminent photographer of wooden boats. The result is a stunning guide to sailboats and their rigs with text by the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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