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A fascinating journey through more than 5,000 years of seafaring history in this essential guide to the most impressive seafaring tales, explorers, and maritime ...
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In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all ...
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 ...
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking ...
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 ...
Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus.
The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets ...
Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic history of American piracy's "Golden Age"-spanning the late 1600s through to the early 1700s-when lawless pirates ...
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 ...
"A fascinating, fast-paced history...full of remarkable characters and incredible stories" about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium ...
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 ...
This guide is a wonderful addition to Conway's best-selling pocket book series that examines this famous ship from a refreshingly different angle. Launched in ...
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 ...
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845-whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ...
This remarkable account of James Cameron's expeditions to the sunken Titanic includes his dive journal, personal photographs, and maps from his many explorations of ...
A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea.
An accomplishment of both ...
