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  • Messages from the Sea
    Paul Brown
    Messages from the Sea is a collection of letters and notes found washed ashore on beaches and bobbing in water, in corked bottles and wax-sealed boxes, carved onto wreckage and in the bellies of sharks. They tell of foundering ships, missing ocean liners and shipwrecked sailors, and contain moving farewells, romantic declarations and intriguing confessions. Some solve the myste...
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    12,86 €

  • Maritime Strategy and Global Order
    Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement-but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade ...
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    94,04 €

  • The Art of Rigging (Dover Maritime)
    George Biddlecombe
    Once upon a time, a mastery of the art of rigging was required for anyone working onboard a ship. Although this is no longer the case for sailors on today's steel-hulled, gas-powered behemoth's, the intricate rope work that once made sailing possible is a fascinating and important part of nautical history. And for those who enjoy building model ships, learning to create aut...
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    20,77 €

  • The Art of Rigging (Dover Maritime)
    George Biddlecombe
    Once upon a time, a mastery of the art of rigging was required for anyone working onboard a ship. Although this is no longer the case for sailors on today's steel-hulled, gas-powered behemoth's, the intricate rope work that once made sailing possible is a fascinating and important part of nautical history. And for those who enjoy building model ships, learning to create aut...
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    11,30 €

  • THE DIARY OF DR.CHALONER CLAY
    The diary of Dr.Chaloner Clay is a unique piece of British maritime history published here for the very first time. This verbatim reproduction provides an insight on a way of travelling the high seas that is long since gone. This word-for-word journal was hand written when Britain did still literally rule the waves. This diary has been in the possesion of the great grandson of ...
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    8,55 €

  • 25 Awesome Facts About The Coast Guard
    Brian Runion
    Did you know there's a Coast Guard? You did? Well, I guess you don’t need this book, then. OR DO YOU?See, the Coast Guard does a lot more than just guard the coast: it goes all over the world saving lives, fighting smugglers, and being really, really awesome. It has fought in every American War since 1790, and has shared its unique set of skills with every other military br...
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    32,27 €

  • Grandes batallas navales desconocidas
    Víctor San Juan
    Las guerras púnicas enfrentaron a dos ejércitos perfectamente adiestrados para el combate, con dos visiones distintas a la hora de planificar las principales operaciones militares, y con unos experimentados generales, como Aníbal o Escipión, que protagonizaron algunas de las batallas más memorables de todos los tiempos. Tal fue su magnitud y su extensión, que muchos autores la ...
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    20,59 €

  • The Lost Hero of Cape Cod
    Vincent Miles
    The Lost Hero of Cape Cod tells the story of an extraordinary nineteenth-century mariner… and of a morale-boosting victory for the young United States over Britain in the commercial battle that broke out on the Atlantic after the War of 1812.   Born in a small village on Cape Cod in 1809, Asa Eldridge grew up to become one of the world’s greatest shipmasters. Even today, he sti...
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    11,90 €

  • Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations
    Bernie Webber
    Bernie Webber, hero of Disney movie, The Finest Hours and bestselling book Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat Stations is part history book, part memoir, written by Bernie Webber, recipient of the Coast Guard's highest award, the Gold Life-saving Medal, and hero of the Disney movie The Finest Hours. While the public will recognize Webber's name from the movie and the ...
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    57,82 €

  • Lightships, Lighthouses, and Lifeboat Stations
    Bernie Webber
    Lightships, Lighthouses and Lifeboat Stations is part history book, part memoir, written by Bernie Webber, recipient of the Coast Guard’s highest award, the Gold Life-saving Medal, and hero of the Disney movie The Finest Hours. While the public will recognize Webber’s name from the movie and the bestselling book by the same name, few people know that during his lengthy Coast Gu...
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    33,04 €

  • Forethought and Labor
    Katherine S McNally
    This book contains interviews with island residents between 19 and 94 years of age who have witnessed cycles of cultural, ecological, and economic change on the island of Grand Manan, New Brunswick.  ...
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    17,86 €

  • Piracy and Policy in the Americas
    Josh Milner
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    21,81 €

  • Power, Law, and Maritime Order in the South China Sea
    Over the last few decades there has been growing recognition of the importance of a peaceful and stable South China Sea for Indo-Pacific security and development, a recognition that has been underlain, paradoxically, by the increasingly precarious situation in this body of water that straddles critical shipping lanes from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean. This book informs its r...
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    172,79 €

  • The Rhodian Sea-Law
    Walter Ashburner
    An important volume for the scholar of admiralty or maritime law or international trade. ccxciii, 132 pp. Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. The Rhodian laws are a code of maritime laws adopted by the people of the island of Rhodes approximately between 600 and 800 A.D. The Rhodes were at that time the sovereign rulers of the sea. The text includes the lex R...
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    42,59 €

  • The Legendary Lost Town of Ravenser
    Phil Mathison
    Talk of a famous Yorkshire town thrown up by the sea, and then erased by the same waters could be dismissed as a myth. But Ravernser Odd was no myth. The legendary seaport, in its day, rivalled and then surpassed Hull and Grimsby and in the process made the fortunes of many traders. The town returned two M.P.s to Parliament; had a chapel, two markets every week and an annual fa...
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    17,67 €

  • Enquiry Into the Validity of the British Claim to a Right of Visitation and Search of American Vessels Suspected to be Engaged in the African Slave-Trade
    Henry Wheaton
    A sophisticated defense of state supremacy. Hardcover, 151 pp. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842. Published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain, Enquiry criticizes Britain’s seizure of American vessels engaged in the Atlantic slave trade. Although the importation of slaves was prohibited by law at this time, Wheaton rejected the right o...
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    24,14 €

  • Saved From Davey Jones' Locker
    C. R. Webster
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    16,37 €

  • Grandad Was A Sailor
    Ed Dickinson
    Born 1936 in a market town close to the port of Liverpool and an avid reader of adventure and travel books, the Author soon developed an urge to see the world and on leaving school hebecame an apprentice Deck Officer in the Merchant Navy.By 1962 this was replaced by an urge to get married, have a family and settle down ashore.This book is confined to the ten years seafaring and...
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    26,78 €

  • 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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    157,85 €

  • La Armada desconocida de Jorge Juan
    Víctor San Juan
    Don Jorge Juan y Santacilia: Marino, ingeniero, explorador, científico, literato. Genio de la construcción naval. Descubra la gran aventura del diseño y construcción de estos avanzados navíos a vela y su participación en los episodios clave de la historia española de los Siglos XVIII y XIX. Una generación de buques injustamente olvidada que marcaron toda una época.Conozca la ob...
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    17,16 €

  • Fluid Frontiers
    A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENTThere is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another. What has too often been described as the ’eternal sea’ is shown ...
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    101,48 €

  • Colonial naval culture and British imperialism, 1922-67
    Daniel Spence
    Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation. With sources from Britain, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, this book examines the political, social and cultural impact of these forces; how they fortified ...
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    157,34 €

  • An Account of a Voyage in Search Ofla Perouse
    Jacques-Julien Houtou De La Billardiere
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    67,95 €

  • A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV
    George Anson
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    83,82 €

  • An Account of a Voyage in Search Ofla Perouse
    Jacques-Julien Houtou De La Billardiere
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    60,79 €

  • An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Perouse
    Jacques-Julien Houtou De La Billardiere
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    36,31 €

  • El Titanic y otros grandes naufragios
    Víctor San Juan
    La auténtica historia de los más trágicos mitos de la historia naval de los últimos cien años. Titanic, Príncipe de Asturias, Lusitania, Andrea Doria,? Colosales catástrofes, secretos ocultados por los gobiernos, los más estremecedores desastres navales de los últimos cien años. Asómbrese con las grandes tragedias del mar del último siglo, siniestros, accidentes o pérdidas de g...
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    17,16 €

  • International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century
    Helen Sampson
    Winner, 2014 BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed inaugural award for ethnography, in association with the British Sociological Association This ethnographic account of seafarers considers issues of transnationalism in the twenty-first century and discusses the detailed life experiences of migrant workers in this context. It argues for a consideration of the social space available to...
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    29,85 €

  • The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast
    Richard Henry Dana / Richard Henry Jr. Dana
    A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana’s classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America, he annotates Dana’s tale with critiques, tie-ins to today, and ...
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    28,96 €

  • Wreck of the Neva
    Cal McCarthy / Kevin Todd
    The 'Neva' sailed from Cork on 8 January 1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On 13 May 1835 the ship hit a reef just north of King's Island in Australia and sank with the loss of 224 lives - one of the worst shipwrecks in marit...
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    25,57 €


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