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The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster
by Marc L. Songini  Publisher Comments It’s the mid-ninteenth century and the American whaling fleet is struck by one hammer blow after the other. Yankee whalers are contending with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, and disease. Many whalers give up the...
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Treasure Hunt: Shipwreck, Diving, and the Quest for Treasure in an Age of Heroes
by Peter Earle Publisher Comments “A remarkable book, in which a very wide spectrum of human behavior is on show---from colossal gullibility on the one hand, to extraordinary ingenuity and determination on the other.” —The Daily Telegraph (UK) ...
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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,...
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
by Joan Druett Publisher Comments Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost...
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A Night to Remember
by Walter Lord Publisher Comments She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy...
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
by Colin Woodard Publisher Comments "It's a rollicking tale, filled with rich details of the lives of men who, for their own personal gain, challenged the spread of empires."--Times-Picayune (New Orleans) Captains like Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane rallied with...
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Pirate Soul: A Swashbuckling Voyage Through the Golden Age of Pirates!
by Pat Croce Publisher Comments Inside this deluxe interactive adventure readers will find engaging authoritative text on all facets of pirate life and history, complemented by fantastic full-color art and over 30 fun and fascinating three-dimensional features....
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Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound (Images of America)
by Jean Findlay Synopsis Before the advent of roads in western Washington, steamboats of the Mosquito Fleet swarmed all over Puget Sound. Sidewheelers, stern-wheelers, and propeller-driven, they ranged from the tiny 40-foot Marie to the huge 282-foot Yosemite, and from the...
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker Publisher Comments Much is known of the American slave trade, but little of the ships that made it all possible. Award-winning historian Rediker draws on 30 years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted...
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The Journals of Captain Cook
by J C Beaglehole Publisher Comments Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions between 1768 and 1779. These charted the entire coast of New ZeaLand and the east coast of Australia and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga...
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The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework
by Hervey Garret Smith Publisher Comments Perfect shipboard reference, packed with useful "hands-on" information, covers sailor's tools, basic knots and useful hitches, handsewing and canvas work and dozens of other topics important to safe, economic and efficient boat maintenance. Over 100...
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Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 (06 Edition)
by Emma Christopher Publisher Comments An examination of the working lives of the approximately 350,000 men who labored aboard British and North American slave ships. Marrying slave trade studies to maritime history, it questions how sailors work in this most abhorrent of trades fits with...
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Warships of the World to 1900
by Lincoln P. Paine Publisher Comments Warships of the World to 1900 captures the history of naval warfare by telling the stories of more than two hundred of the most famous and important fighting ships, from the Battle of Salamis to the Spanish-American War, including the earliest triremes...
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Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into the Heart of the Titanic
by Donald Lynch Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 141) and index....
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Shackleton's Boat Journey
by Frank Arthu Worsley Publisher Comments Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice,...
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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....
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The Yankee Fleet: Maritime New England in the Age of Sail
by James C., Jr. Johnston Publisher Comments In The Yankee Fleet: Maritime New England in the Age of Sail, James C. Johnston Jr. recounts the famous tales that have given the Northeast such a storied maritime tradition. From the stern Puritan fathers to Francisco Ruiz, New England's last known...
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Tugboats of New York: An Illustrated History
by George Matteson Publisher Comments Rich with first-person anecdotes of life on the New York waterways and 150 black-and-white photographs, this volume will fascinate readers interested in New York history, boating and maritime history....
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly Publisher Comments For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many...
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Ships of Discovery and Exploration
by Lincoln Paine Publisher Comments Lincoln P. Paine's SHIPS OF THE WORLD: AN HISTORICAL HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA was honored as one of the best reference books of the year by the New York Public Library, and Library Journal described it as "clearly the most fascinating book of the year...
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