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The wild and desolate expanses of Antarctica have been the setting for many famous exploits and misadventures: a place where every decision has life-or-death consequences ...
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In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus ...
'The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true ...
David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of ...
A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography
From late 1872 to 1876, H ...
To be read alongside thrilling histories by Nathaniel Philbrick, Hampton Sides, and Rinker Buck, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy ...
For three decades the Windrush was the maritime Zelig of the twentieth century, playing different roles in the most turbulent years in modern times. Designed ...
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship
In this thematic survey, Gabriel ...
The most comprehensive book ever written on the heritage, history and archaeology of the Vergulde Draeck (Gilt Dragon) (1656). Illustrated (with some never seen before ...
In an extraordinary move, in 1797, the British government pressed a small group of French and German prisoners of war into the New South Wales ...
Brandy for the parson, baccy for the clerk...'
We have an image, mostly from movies and novels, of a tall ship riding gently at anchor ...
Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization
In this history of fishing-not ...
As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms like these are ...
The historian R. H. Tawney famously wrote, The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp.' The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps ...
The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp.' The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps ...
