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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters

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California, Shipwrecks of the California Coast
ARC166
Shipwrecks of the California Coast
$19.99  
Paperback, Michael D. White, 176pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 9781609499242
More than two thousand ships have been lost along California's 840 miles of coastline--Spanish galleons, passenger liners, freighters, schooners. Some tragedies are marking points in U.S. maritime history. The City of Rio de Janeiro," bound from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1901, sliced the fog...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
INT465
Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
$25.00  
Hardcover, John Kretschmer, 256pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 9780071704403
"I know you'll want to read more after you finish   Sailing a Serious Ocean . And be warned, you'll very likely want to sail with John, perhaps across an ocean."   -- DALLAS MURPHY, AUTHOR OF   ROUNDING THE HORN After sailing 300,000 miles and weathering dozens of storms in all the...
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Diving, Diving for Treasure
NBN036
Diving for Treasure
$24.95  
Paperback, Vic Verlinden & Stefan Panis, 144pages, 7 x 10, ISBN: 9781849953252
Diving for Treasure  recounts the efforts over many years to dive wrecks that contained treasure in one form or another. The often prolonged and sometimes dangerous expeditions tell of dives to many ships that were wrecked while carrying tons of gold or other valuables. Many of the wrecks...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, RMS Titanic Manual 1909-12
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RMS Titanic Manual 1909-12
$23.95  
Paperback, 160pages, 8.5 x 11, ISBN: 9781785210938
The world famous ocean liner Titanic, which sank on her maiden voyage in 1912, is the latest subject to receive the Haynes Manual treatment. With an authoritative text and hundreds of illustrations, see how this leviathan was built, launched, and fitted out. Read about her lavish passenger...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Last Voyages: The Lives and Tragic Loss of Remarkable Sailors Who Never Returned
WIL087
Last Voyages: The Lives and Tragic Loss of Remarkable Sailors Who Never Returned
$12.71 $16.95  
Paperback, Nicholas Gray, 240pages, 5 x 8, ISBN: 9781909911550
Looking back at the lives and sailing careers of some of our lifetime’s finest yachtsmen, this collection of eleven original, moving accounts is just as much a celebration of the good – tales of hope, achievement and courageous spirit – as it is an account of their tragic final voyages....
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
HRW147
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
$22.39 $27.99  
Hardcover, Rachel Slade, 416pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 9780062699701
ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER A  NEW YORK TIMES  EDITOR'S CHOICE ONE OF  OUTSIDE  MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER “A powerful and affecting story, beautifully handled by Slade, a journalist who clearly knows ships and the sea.”—Douglas Preston,  New York...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Great American Shipwreck Stories
NBN030
Great American Shipwreck Stories
$16.00  
Paperback, Tom McCarthy, 304pages, 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches, ISBN: 9781493033713
Great American Shipwreck Stories  is a magnificent collection of gripping accounts of a ship's encounter with a great whale or an overwhelming monsoon or a disastrous passage through the Straits of Magellan, leading to a wreck and a crew's harrowing plight for survival on the open seas or...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
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Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
$14.99  
Paperback, 280pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 9781944824242
“1789 April: Just before sun-rising, Mr. Christian, with the master at arms, gunner’s mate, and Thomas Burket, seaman, came into my cabin while I was asleep, and seizing me, tied my hands with a cord behind my back and threatened me with instant death if I spoke or made the least...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Red Flags in Blue Water
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Red Flags in Blue Water
$9.56 $11.95  
Paperback, R A Bard, 194pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 9780692618479
On the ocean, some voyages proceed smoothly, and some go weirdly south. It’s the weirder ones, selected from the many passages made by the author over sixteen years as an offshore delivery captain, that are collected here. None are full-scale disasters, but even minor calamities are exciting...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
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The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
$18.95  
Paperback, Abigail B. Calkin Ph.D., 252pages, 6 x 0.6 x 9, ISBN: 9780615591933
When Captain Larry Hills attempted to rescue his deckhand, he too was tragically caught in the lines that whipped and wrapped the two men against the net reel of the trawler like captured fish. In the moment before the deckhand’s death he was the only one who heard Larry’s cold...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Farewell to a Queen
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Farewell to a Queen
$7.98 $15.95  
Paperback, Don Douglass, 152pages, 6 x 0.4 x 9, ISBN: 9781934199046
"Farewell to a Queen is exciting and tragic stuff. Don, who captures it perfectly, has navigated over 100,000 miles in both Pacific and Atlantic waters." — Warren Miller, author and world-renowned ski filmmaker. "Don Douglass and his wife, Reanne Hemingway-Douglass, are sailor's sailors....
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Lost Treasure Ships of the Oregon Coast
SPC058
Lost Treasure Ships of the Oregon Coast
$14.99  
Paperback, Theodore Schellhase, 176pages, 9 x 5.9 x 0.6, ISBN: 9780764331978
Explore the early history of Oregon by delving into the journals of explorers Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson, and Lewis & Clark. Read about journeys into Oregon and first encounters with Native Americans on the coast. Hear legends of white-winged ships that first came to these shores...
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Novels, General, Stories of the Sea
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Stories of the Sea
$16.00  
Hardcover, Diana Secker Tesdell, ISBN: 9780307592651
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters. Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble
INT460
Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble
$11.00 $22.00  
Paperback, Tom Lochhaas, ISBN: 9780071803311
True stories of contemporary sailing disasters that will keep you alert and careful when you are on the water. . Suddenly Overboard tells stories about sailors who experienced catastrophes when least expecting them and who were rescued, or who died, or who lived to tell the tale simply by good...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir
NAV067
Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir
 
Paperback, Edward C. Raymer, ISBN: 9781591147244
The chief diver of the Pearl Harbor salvage operations tells the whole story of the desperate attempts to save crewmembers caught inside their sinking ships On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralysed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese attack...
Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Rescue at the Top of the World
PAR033
Rescue at the Top of the World
$9.95  
Paperback, Shawn Shallow, 291pages, 9 x 5.9, ISBN: 9780939837656
Winter came early to the Arctic in 1897. Frigid temperatures brought pack ice that filled the waters north of the Bering Strait. As a result, virtually the entire North American whaling fleet was trapped, stranding 300 men to die of starvation and exposure. Three escaping ships raised the alarm....
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea
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Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea
$24.95  
Hardcover, Terry Breverton, 384pages, 1.2 x 5 x 8, ISBN: 9781599219790
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea. However, unlike many other nautical compendiums, this lavishly illustrated book focuses on the unusual, the overlooked, or the downright extraordinary. . Thus, someone most of us do not know, Admiral William Brown, is given...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend [Paperback]
SMP064
On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend [Paperback]
$19.99  
Paperback, Spike Walker, 304pages, 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9, ISBN: 9780312604592
Walker mines familiar territory here with this detailed look into the grounding of a freighter on the Aleutian Islands in 2004. Through multiple interviews with the Coast Guard personnel involved, he provides a minute-by-minute account of the rescue mission that was compounded when a USCG...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Shipwrecks of Coos County
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Shipwrecks of Coos County
$21.99  
Paperback, H.S. Contino, 128pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 9780738581576
European settlement of Coos County began with a shipwreck. The Captain Lincoln wrecked on the north spit of the Coos Bay in January 1852. The crewmen built a temporary camp out of the ship's sails and named it "Camp Cast-Away" This was the first white settlement in the area. The men eventually...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
WPC016
Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
$19.98 $39.95  
CD, 5.9 x 5.1 x 1.5, ISBN: 9781611743906
The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor, but rather in the period from 1942 to 1943, in the frigid North Atlantic and American coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Nearly seven decades after the event, the...
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Pacific Northwest, Raincoast Chronicles 21: West Coast Wrecks and Other Maritime Tales
HPC133
Raincoast Chronicles 21: West Coast Wrecks and Other Maritime Tales
$24.95  
Paperback, Rick James, 128pages, 0.3 x 8.3 x 10.5, ISBN: 9781550175455
In this special edition of Raincoast Chronicles, maritime historian Rick James takes the reader on an authoritative and well-illustrated tour of the most fascinating of BC's shipwrecks. As well as reliving high-seas adventures, we learn the stories behind retired Cape Horn windjammers, solve the...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Graveyard of the Pacific
HHP016
Graveyard of the Pacific
$9.95  
Paperback, Anthony Dalton, 124pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 9781926613314
On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west coast of Vancouver Island. As the wreck was shattered by the pounding waves, the survivors clung desperately to the rigging. Few made it the short...
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Fishing Narratives, Nights of Ice
SMP043
Nights of Ice
$18.99  
Paperback, Spike Walker, 206pages, 5.5 x 8.25, ISBN: 9780312199937
Hair-raising accounts of survival by the author of "Working on the Edge". "Grab-you-by-the-throat, rip-snorting tales of disaster on furious high seas". --"Kirkus Reviews".
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Shipwrecks & Lost Treasures: Great Lakes
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Shipwrecks & Lost Treasures: Great Lakes
$14.95  
Paperback, Michael Varhola, 206pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 9780762744923
Twenty-one riveting stories with illustrations of ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes including British gunboat, The USS Niagara, Civil War steamer Island Queen and, of course, the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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