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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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A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Publisher Comments The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic's fatal... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived by Andrew Wilson Publisher Comments IN the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, the icy waters of the North Atlantic reverberated with the desperate screams of more than 1,500 men, women, and children—passengers of the once majestic liner Titanic. Then, as the ship sank to the... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of A N.A. Salvage Tug by Farley Mowat Publisher Comments The hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service in the North Atlantic.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster by Steven Biel Publisher Comments "I suggest, henceforth, when a woman talks women's rights, she be answered with the word Titanic, nothing more--just Titanic," wrote a St. Louis man to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was not alone in mining the ship for a metaphor. Everyone found... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Her Name, Titanic by Charles Pellegrino Publisher Comments "NOT EVEN GOD HIMSELF COULD SINK THIS SHIP? On the evening of Sunday, April 14, 1912, the awesome ocean liner Titanic-the majestic queen of the White Star fleet-struck an iceberg and quickly vanished into the frigid blackness of the North Atlantic... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner by John Maxtone Graham Publisher Comments This is a book unlike any other. Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative, and rarely... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework (Dover Maritime) by Hervey Garret Smith Publisher Comments A maritime expert offers boating and yachting enthusiasts a complete course in rigging, working, and maintaining a ship. The perfect shipboard reference, this volume is packed with useful "hands-on" information: sailor's tools, basic knots, and... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Titanic, First Accounts: (Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) by Tim Maltin Publisher Comments Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic--in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover art. Historic firsthand accounts and testimonies by survivors and eye- witnesses including Lawrence Beesley, Margaret Brown, Archibald Gracie, Carlos F. Hurd... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Rigging by George Biddlecombe Publisher Comments The best manual ever produced on rigging a sailing ship, based on extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Biddlecombe, Master in the Royal Navy. Complete definition of terms, on-shore operations, process of rigging ships, reeving the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rigging of Ships: In the Days of the Spritsail Topmast, 1600-1720 by R. C. Anderson Publisher Comments Essential reading and reference for ship model-makers and students and enthusiasts of historic sailing ships and their rigging. Describes and depicts in detail how 17th-century English, French, Dutch and other European trading ships and warships were... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: A Narrative Account by Owen Chase, First Mate by Owen Chase Publisher Comments On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rough Guide to the Titanic (Rough Guide To?) by Greg Ward Publisher Comments A century after the most famous shipwreck in history, mysteries, controversies, and arguments still surround the tragedy. The Rough Guide to the Titanic tells the full, compelling story of the supposedly unsinkable liner. At its heart lies the epic human... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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America's Lost Treasure by Tommy Thompson Publisher Comments America's Lost Treasure is a pictorial account of the sinking and recovery of the United States Mail Steamship Central America, a story that was the subject of The New York Times bestseller, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. The sinking of the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Wood, Water, and Light: Classic Wooden Boats by Benjamin Mendlowitz Publisher Comments Twenty-four wooden boats are featured in this volume, among them classic sailing yachts and rugged schooners as well as smaller wooden craft. Each is accompanied by an in-depth description of the design and history of the vessel, exterior and interior... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Bounty Mutiny: Captain William Bligh's Firsthand Account of the Last Voyage of HMS Bounty by William Bligh Publisher Comments The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near... (read more) Your price: $18.75 New - Trade Paper
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A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's "The Tempest" by Hobson Woodward Publisher Comments A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Voices from the Titanic: The Epic Story of the Tragedy from the People Who Were There by Geoff Tibballs Publisher Comments This is the graphic, first-hand story of the maiden voyage and disastrous sinking of the RMS Titanic, told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner has been told countless times since that fateful night on April 14, 1912... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Titanic: Disaster of a Century by Wyn Craig Wade Publisher Comments In this centennial edition of the definitive book on the Titanic, new findings, photos, and interviews shed light on the world's most famous marine disaster for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. On that fatal night in 1912 the world's... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic: The Ocean's Greatest Disaster: A Graphic and Thrilling Account of the Sinking of the Greatest Floating Palace Ever B by Marshall Everett Publisher Comments A graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls With newly commissioned artwork, Wreck and Sinking of the ‘Titanic’ is a deluxe reproduction of the... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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