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  • Guerra submarina
    José Manuel Gutiérrez de la Cámara Señán
    Las estrategias de la cruel y despiadada guerra submarina en el atlántico norte, que fue clave para la victoria final en las dos guerras mundiales.La guerra submarina es la gran desconocida en todos los libros de historia. Conocemos las fechas y las batallas terrestres y aéreas, pero ¿cómo participan los submarinos en estos conflictos? A lo largo de este libro conoceremos las d...
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    27,25 €

  • The History of the Silk Road
    Yingsheng Liu
    This book is a meticulous work by renowned scholar, Liu Yingsheng who has spent years in the research of history of the Silk Road. The book consists of two parts as: the land Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road, which includes 14 chapters, totally. With the following words Liu Yingsheng offers a clear view of communications among civilizations when studying the history of the ...
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    36,39 €

  • Secret Treasure of Oak Island
    D’Arcy O’Connor
    “The Secret Treasure of Oak Island is a testament to D'Arcy's continuing passion and commitment towards revealing the truths of the Oak Island mystery. A great read.” -- Rick Lagina, co-host of the popular TV show “The Curse of Oak Island”This treasure hunting book is the prequel to History Channel’s popular show The Curse of Oak Island. In this new edition, D’Arcy O’C...
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    16,26 €

  • 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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    45,48 €

  • 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic ... But Didn't
    Eloise Aston / Tim Malton
    Everybody has a theory about the Titanic. But what actually happened? Here, in one fascinating volume, are detailed answers to the questions that have been asked time and again about that fateful night. Is it true there weren't enough lifeboats on board? Did the lookouts really miss spotting the iceberg because they weren't given binoculars? Did owner Ismay order th...
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    17,70 €

  • Our Story
    Bill Willard
    The 1998 Titanic Expedition, led by George Tulloch and PH Nargeolet, was an endeavor its members will never forget.Now, their first-hand accounts and photos allow you to experience the journey with them as they broadcast the first live television programs from a ship, transmit the first live images from a submersible at the bottom of the North Atlantic, raise the only portion o...
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    35,60 €

  • Maritime Academy Graduate
    Mark H. Glissmeyer / Mark HGlissmeyer
      This expanded edition includes a new chapter that contains a multiple choice exam on sailing as a third mate. The U.S. maritime industry hit rock bottom starting in the early 1980’s, right around the time the author was graduating from the California Maritime Academy. Even in his yearbook it warned about how bad things were--it was a time of cost cutting, reduced wages, despe...
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    20,02 €

  • International Maritime Law from the Russian Perspective
    Vasiliy Gutsulyak
    This book is one of the most comprehensive guides to international maritime law from the Russian perspective. It consists of three relatively independent sections: Russian Maritime Law, International Public Maritime Law, and International Private Maritime Law.First section discusses the development of the maritime law as a branch of the Russian law. It examines concepts and sou...
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    102,54 €

  • The Golden Age of Piracy
    David Head
    Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. The e...
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    26,59 €

  • The Golden Age of Piracy
    David Head
    Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. The e...
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    115,14 €

  • Shipwreck Potpourri
    Gary J. Gentile
    This book is a continuation of and addition to the Popular Dive Series. It contains newly discovered wrecks, newly identified wrecks, changes in wrecks, and wrecks that were not covered in the original series. The book is organized by State:New Hampshire: William H. MachenMassachusetts: Andrea Doria, Nezinscot, U-550, White SquallNew York: Herbert Parker, San DiegoNew Jersey: L...
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    20,14 €

  • Breve historia de las batallas navales del Mediterráneo
    Víctor San Juan
    Cinco siglos de batallas navales trascendentales por la hegemonía del Mare Nostrum: desde Solimán contra el Imperio Español o Napoleón contra Inglaterra hasta las dos Guerras Mundiales. El fascinante mundo de la Armée Royale, la Mediterranean Fleet, la Regia Marina o la KuK Marine de la mano de grandes nombres como Barbarroja, Juan de Austria, Andrea Doria o Horacio Nelson.Brev...
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    22,51 €

  • Captain Puckett
    Kenneth P. Puckett / William D. LaRue
    The history and operations of the Panama Canal during the 1980s and 1990s come to life in this vibrant personal memoir by retired canal pilot Kenneth P. Puckett. In this book, Captain Puckett shares 'sea stories' and other personal memories that have made him a popular teacher and lecturer. For nearly 16 years, until he retired in 1996, he helped to guide ships through the hist...
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    15,95 €

  • Breve historia de las batallas de la Antigüedad
    Carlos Díaz Sánchez
    Descubra las batallas que cambiaron el destino de las grandes civilizaciones. Los detalles de las tropas, armamentos y las tácticas de los más brillantes generales, Ramses II, Alejandro Magno o Julio César. Egipcios contra Hititas, Griegos contra Persas, Romanos contra Dacios: la trepidante historia de las guerras que decidieron el curso de la historia.Megido, Qadesh, Platea, T...
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    16,95 €

  • Two Voyages
    David Horry
    New Zealand was the last major habitable land on Earth to be populated.Many associate the discovery of New Zealand with James Cook, but he was not the first to venture to this isolated part of the Earth.When James Cook landed in New Zealand in July 1769 he landed at what is now known as Gisborne, on the east coast of the North Island. It is in the latitude 38°40’S, and Cook was...
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    31,27 €

  • Las rutas de la seda en la historia de España y Portugal
    Autores Varios
    Las vías de comunicación que se establecieron desde la antigüedad entre los continentes de Europa y Asia, conocidas como las 'Rutas de la Seda', facilitaron la difusión de esta actividad manufacturera en la península Ibérica a partir de su conquista por el Islam en el siglo VIII. Sin embargo, fueron los comerciantes italianos que revitalizaron aquellas rutas a finales del siglo...
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    20,00 €

  • International Maritime Law from the Russian Perspective
    Vasiliy Gutsulyak
    This book is one of the most comprehensive guides to international maritime law from the Russian perspective. It consists of three relatively independent sections: Russian Maritime Law, International Public Maritime Law, and International Private Maritime Law.First section discusses the development of the maritime law as a branch of the Russian law. It examines concepts and sou...
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    127,31 €

  • 'This Practice Against Law'
    John D. Gordan III / John DGordan III
    Gordan’s research shines a new light on the legal tale of 19th century American ships covertly intended for the Cuban-African slave trade. “This Practice Against Law” reconstructs the little-known story of the Butterfly and the Catharine, two slave ships from Havana seized by the British Navy off the African coast in 1839. These ships were tendered to the federal government for...
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    292,12 €

  • The Practice and Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty
    John E. Hall / John EHall
    Originally published: Baltimore: Geo. Dobbin and Murphy, 1809. xxviii, iv, 211, [5] pp. Reprint of the first significant American treatise on admiralty law. An extended discussion of American admiralty practice and a useful compendium of relevant cases, Hall’s treatise includes a history of Anglo-American admiralty law. First published posthumously in London in 1667 and transla...
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    30,34 €

  • The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told
    Tom McCarthy
    A first-ever compilation of the most courageous and stunning Coast Guard rescue stories.The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United States, and the Coast Guard’s rescue personnel are second to none. In The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told, the editor has pulled together some of the finest writings...
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    16,32 €

  • Oceanic Histories
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    29,17 €

  • Breve historia de las Batallas navales de la Edad Media
    Víctor San Juan
    Descubra la Edad Media a través de la guerra en el mar: las invasiones bárbaras, musulmanas y normandas (Vikingos), las cruzadas, las primeras potencias navales (Venecia, Génova y Aragón) hasta la campaña naval otomana durante la conquista de Constantinopla. 27 grandes batallas en un momento de trascendental cambio histórico: de la pax romana a la época feudal.Acérquese a las b...
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    17,37 €

  • A History of the Foreshore and The Law Relating Thereto
    Stuart A. Moore / Stuart AMoore
    This formidably learned history of riparian rights and fishery law from 765 CE to the late nineteenth century draws on a wide range of contemporary and historical materials, including a treatise by Sir Matthew Hale [1609–1676] [De jure maris et brachiorum ejusdem]. Originally published: London: Stevens & Haynes, 1888. liv, [1], 984 pp. Moore [1842–1907] argues that “the theory ...
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    118,55 €

  • Farewell to Old England Forever
    Doug Limbrick
    The author’s objective is to explain, describe and evoke wonder about those people who chose to leave family and friends forever and sail half way around the world in a small vessel in order to emigrate to a remote place they had little knowledge about. In order to understand this story the reader needs to know what it was like in the colonies in the nineteenth century, how the...
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    29,93 €

  • The Freedom of the Seas
    Hugo Grotius / Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
    A classic treatise on international maritime law. Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1916. xv, (xiv-xv, 79 pp. paged in duplicate (158 pp.)), 81-83 pp. (total 182 pp.) A translation of Grotius’s Mare Liberum, with Latin and English on facing pages. This groundbreaking work was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to dispute the monopoly on East Ind...
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    27,93 €

  • Breve historia de las Batallas navales de la Antigüedad
    Víctor San Juan
    Desde Sumeria y Babilonia hasta Grecia y Roma: 27 grandes batallas navales, los navíos y sus tácticas: Cumas, Salamina, Actium, Micala, Eurimedón, Arginusas, Egos Pótamos. Descubra las epopeyas marinas protagonizadas por Octavio Augusto, Marco Antonio, Cleopatra, Ramsés III, Agripa o la reina Artemisia de Halicarnaso.Acérquese a las batallas navales más importantes de la Antigü...
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    16,95 €

  • Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites
    Joel Stone
    Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites lays the groundwork for keeping this heritage alive in museums and historic sites. It provides the broadest spectrum of discussion and direction for those approaching new installations, projects and programming. Highlights of its wide-range include:•Historic vessels and shipbuilding•Freshwater maritime history, includi...
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    116,78 €

  • Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites
    Joel Stone
    Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites lays the groundwork for keeping this heritage alive in museums and historic sites. It provides the broadest spectrum of discussion and direction for those approaching new installations, projects and programming. Highlights of its wide-range include:•Historic vessels and shipbuilding•Freshwater maritime history, includi...
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    49,86 €

  • Privateer Ships and Sailors
    Howard Chapin
    2017 Reprint of 1926 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  A privateer was a private person or ship that engaged in maritime warfare under a commission of war.  The commission, also known as a letter of marque, empowered the person to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war, including...
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    20,92 €

  • 'Lady of St Kilda'
    John M MacAulay
    The topsail schooner 'Lady of St Kilda' was built in 1834 for the wealthy Devon landowner Sir Thomas Dyke Acland.  She was to become a key part in the development of the City of Melbourne at a time when untold prosperity was accelerating the growth of the City. Designed as a 'fruit schooner' she served as a private yacht until she was sold to Pope & Co of Plymo...
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    17,80 €


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