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  • Breve historia de las batallas navales de las fragatas
    Víctor San Juan
    La apasionante historia de la evolución técnica y táctica de los buques más importantes de las flotas actuales. Desde sus orígenes en el siglo XVI, el auge de la fragatas acorazadas a vapor y su posterior resurgimiento tras la IIGM como buque de ataque antisubmarino, hasta su fulgurante desarrollo actual y las fragatas del futuro, con equipos tecnológicos revolucionarios.Incluy...
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    21,90 €

  • The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy
    Bruce a Elleman / Bruce A. Elleman
    ’The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy’ includes 14 historical case studies that help to illuminate a number of special characteristics of the modern-day Chinese navy. ...
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    82,40 €

  • Genocide Perspectives V
    Despite the catch-cry bandied about after the Holocaust, "Never Again", genocides continue to destroy cultures and communities around the globe.In this collection of essays, Australian scholars discuss the crime of genocide, examining regimes and episodes that stretch across time and geography. Included are discussions on Australia’s own history of genocide against its Indigeno...
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    21,85 €

  • Genocide Perspectives IV
    Colin Tatz
    Genocide isn't past tense and the Nazi and Bosnian eras are not yet closed. The demonising of people as 'unworthy' and expendable is ever-present and the consequences are all too evident in the daily news. These fourteen essays by Australian scholars confront the issues: the need for a measuring scale that encompasses differences and similarities between seemingly d...
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    20,76 €

  • A Pirate’s Life in the Golden Age of Piracy
    Robert Jacob
    Think you know everything about Pirates? Fascination with Pirates has for centuries driven stories of heroic proportions—true, exaggerated, and imaginary.  Legends of their high seas debauchery continue to inspire modern day books, movies, and groups, dedicated to acting out their past. Pirates are heroes to some and the lowest of crooks to others, but do we really know the tru...
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    31,78 €

  • The Yiddish Sailing Alone Around the World
    Joshua Slocum / Barry Goldstein
    Between 1895 and 1898 Joshua Slocum sailed alone around the world in the 37' Spray, which he had designed and built himself.Wonderfully written in a wry nautical style, from pirates in the Mediterranian to storms around Cape Horn and Pacific paradises.With illustrations by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian ...
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    8,28 €

  • Captain F. Spiess and the German Meteor Expedition of 1925-27
    Walter Zenk / William J. Emery / William JEmery
    Banned from taking naval vessels to foreign ports after WW1 Germany undertakes a comprehensive oceanographic expedition to the Atlantic Ocean to test many new measurement systems and to establish the long term circulation patterns of the Atlantic. Challenged by the proscription on German naval vessels from visiting foreign ports after WW1 a group of German oceanographers from t...
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    44,32 €

  • Negotiating Waters
    This book examines how seas, oceans, and passageways have shaped and reshaped cultural identities, spurred stories of reunion and separation, and redefined entire nations. It explores how entire communities have crossed seas and oceans, voluntarily or not, to settle in foreign lands and undergone identity, cultural and literary transformations. It also explores how these crossi...
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    80,53 €

  • Half-Hull Modeling
    Greg Rössel
    Long before half-hull models became a staple of marine museums and living room walls, they were an essential tool for marine designers and shipbuilders alike. Indeed, the models offered not only a three-dimensional scale rendering of the completed vessel but also a set of comprehensive construction plans for the shipwright. Even in these days of CAD and 3-D printers, the model ...
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    17,69 €

  • The South Seas
    Chris Dixon / Sean Brawley
    The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical si...
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    58,21 €

  • LEON
    Ivan Schneider
    Born in Brooklyn into a family of Jewish immigrants, Leon dropped out of high school and hitchhiked to Florida, the Catskills, and California. He joined the U.S. Merchant Marine and shipped out to Hawaii, almost missing the return trip just days before the attack on Pearl Harbor.Everything changed when Leon survived two deadly U-Boat torpedo attacks in the Caribbean. Inspired t...
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    14,57 €

  • The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators
    Hendrik Willem Van Loon
    First published in 1916, “The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators” is a detailed account of various famous Dutch navigators, many of whom sacrificed their lives and did so knowingly in the name of exploration. Some of them were drowned, and some of them died of thirst. A few were frozen to death, and many were killed by the heat of the scorching sun. Others were speared by cann...
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    22,35 €

  • Kendall's Longitude
    John Bendall
    Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers, K1, K2 and K3. This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history. K2's first voyage, accompanied by the...
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    10,73 €

  • Kendall's Longitude
    John Bendall
    Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers, K1, K2 and K3. This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history. K2's first voyage, accompanied by the...
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    32,98 €

  • Mutinous memories
    Matt Perry
    This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. The revolt spread from France’s intervention against the Soviet Union across the Black Sea into the Mediterranean, finally resulting in unrest in French naval ports. Mutineers faced courts martial, years of hard labour and the threat of the death penalty. Based on official reco...
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    157,65 €

  • A Chronological History of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation
    Henry George Preble
    This vintage book contains a fascinating history of the steamboat, exploring its origin and evolution with a particular focus on American steamboats. A steamboat is a boat that that relies on steam power for its propulsion, usually powered by driving propellers or paddlewheels. With the increasing reliability of steam power, it was also eventually applied to larger vessels that...
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    29,45 €

  • Henry Mowat
    Andrew J. Wahll
    In 1764, the Canceaux began a voyage of 12 years during which the officers and men performed survey work used in the creation of one of the most important and magnificent coastal marine atlases ever produced covering 3,000 miles of New England coastline. In 1775, under the gathering storm clouds of the American Revolution, the Canceaux was redirected to undertake an expedition ...
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    40,52 €

  • Breve historia de los trasatlánticos
    Víctor San Juan
    Breve Historia de la Economía ofrece un recorrido amplio por el desarrollo de la vida económica, desde las rudimentarias herramientas prehistóricas a la Globalización actual, pasando por la revolución neolítica, el origen del Estado, la propiedad privada, el tributo y la división del trabajo, del comercio, los modos producción antiguo, esclavista, feudal, la transición mercanti...
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    17,89 €

  • Lake Erie Technical Wreck Diving Guide
    Erik A A Petkovic / Erik A Petkovic
    Erik Petkovic’s Lake Erie Technical Wreck Diving Guide is packed with tales of maritime disasters: sailing ships and steamers which foundered, succumbed to storms, collided or were engulfed in flames. There are ships which sank more than once, were involved in wars, slave escapes and catastrophic collisions, plus daring stories of deep salvage, valuable cargoes, submarines, exp...
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    29,45 €

  • Lake Erie Technical Wreck Diving Guide
    Erik A Petkovic
    Erik Petkovic’s Lake Erie Technical Wreck Diving Guide is packed with tales of maritime disasters: sailing ships and steamers which foundered, succumbed to storms, collided or were engulfed in flames. There are ships which sank more than once, were involved in wars, slave escapes and catastrophic collisions, plus daring stories of deep salvage, valuable cargoes, submarines, exp...
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    39,70 €

  • World War 3, EMP and the Coming Apocalypse
    levi freud
    2021 UP DATED EDITION This book is about the unthinkable.  Something that most people don’t believe will happen, or that it is just a threat from long ago, like watching a black and white movie of wars long ago. With their goofy looking mechanical walks and bizarre looking clothes and technology . This book explores the half faked collapse of the Soviet Union. And the secret ri...
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    28,09 €

  • From Schooldays to the Arctic Circle and Beyond
    Kenneth Shakesby
    An interesting and insightful book exploring the author’s efforts to follow in his father’s footsteps and succeed in the tumultuous fishing industry.The reader is invited to experience the author’s life as a Hull trawlerman; from his first trip out as a teenager, to achieving the highest rank of skipper. The intense highs and lows in between are relayed in great detail, with ph...
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    25,78 €

  • Dampier’s Monkey
    Adrian Mitchell
    William Dampier, the ‘devil’s mariner’ as he has been called, a far voyager and traveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was new – a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new science, under a new political and economic formation.Dampier’s Monkey examines th...
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    66,53 €

  • Breve historia de las batallas navales de los acorazados
    Víctor San Juan
    La apasionante historia de los reyes de los mares, protagonistas de épicas hazañas legendarias en todos los océanos y mares del globo, desde 1850 hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Conozca las trascendentales batallas de los más modernos buques artilleros, policalibres, Dreadnought y superacorazados, que fueron durante un siglo el instrumento clave de dominio naval y hegemonía po...
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    19,76 €

  • A Treatise on the Law of War
    Cornelius van Bynkershoek / Peter Stephen Du Ponceau
    A Treatise on the Law of War addresses the customs of land and sea warfare. A notably humane work, it condemns actions against civilians and advocates the fair treatment of prisoners of war. Du Ponceau’s able translation is prefaced by a biography of the author, a table of cases, an index of citations from the Corpus Juris Civilis and an annotated bibliography of civil law trea...
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    35,31 €

  • MY FORMATIVE YEARS
    Sir John Pitka / Hillar Kalmar
    Johan Pitka (1872-1944) was born in Estonia, one of nine countries that border the Baltic Sea. Drawn to the ocean from reading tales of adventure as a child, he first saw the sea at age 12. After working aboard ships during summers and attending maritime school during winters, he earned his master’s license in 1895. Pitka became captain of a wooden barque named Lilly at age 24....
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    41,20 €

  • El Tribunal del Consulado de Lima: antecedentes del arbitraje comercial y marítimo en el Perú
    Antonio Pejovés Macedo
    El Tribunal del Consulado de Lima, que funcionó entre 1613 y 1887, tuvo una notable participación principalmente en el comercio marítimo entre el Virreinato del Perú y España, y trascendió la fundación del Perú como república independiente. Instalado en la Ciudad de los Reyes, el centro neurálgico del único virreinato del Reino de España en estas latitudes hasta poco antes del ...
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    18,12 €

  • Breve historia de los viajes de Colón
    Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Laguna
    Profundice en la búsqueda del Nuevo Mundo desde un punto de vista histórico y antropológico. Desde las primeras exploraciones, el contexto histórico de Colón y la España de los Reyes Católicos hasta los 4 viajes colombinos y el choque con las civilizaciones prehispánicas. Una visión completa y rigurosa basada en los últimos hallazgos arqueológicos. Asista al Descubrimiento de A...
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    17,89 €

  • Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology
    Alan Frost
    In 1789, as the Bounty was sailing through the western Pacific Ocean on its return voyage with a cargo of Tahitian plants, disgruntled crewmen seized control of the ship from their captain. The mutineers set their captain and the 18 men who remained loyal to him adrift in one of the ship’s boats, with minimal food supplied and navigational aids, and only four cutlasses for weap...
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    27,23 €

  • The Ancient Israeli Tribe of Dan and the Sea Peoples
    John Bennett
    The impact on history of the Sea Peoples and ancient Hebrew/Phoenician seafaring explorers cannot be over-emphasized. If you can never seem to get far from the ocean; If your life isn’t complete without your feet in salt water, you probably are “Sea Peoples”. This book will show you your ancestors, as far back as there were sails. Now you’ll know why you are who you are. ...
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    6,46 €


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