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Seamen, Ships, and Cargo
Seamen, Ships, and Cargo
WIC003
$8.00  
Paperback, R. Sheret, 139 pages, 8.5 x 11, 921107102
 The story of ships and crews that moved cargo along the West Coast from the 18th century to the present. From the paddlewheel steamers that served the CA and Yukon gold rushes to container-laden coastal barge traffic and space-age cruise ships.
Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling
Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling
PER008
$10.00  
Hardcover, Andrew Darby, 291 pages, 6 x 9, 9780306816291
Chronicles the evolving pursuit of whales and its significance to our humanity. For fans of well-written history and those fascinated by whales and the fierce international conflict surrounding them.
War In The Pacific (DVD)
War In The Pacific (DVD)
BMHJ63D
$10.00  
DVD
Featuring three programs. Pacific Firepower: 25 days of hell to take Saipan. Guam took 17 days of straight air attacks and bombing, paving the way for our massive anphib landings. The Battle Of Rabaul: Having taken Guadalcanal and Papua, New Guinea we planned a major encirclement of New Britain....
Ships, Aircraft & Weapons of the US Navy (DVD)
Ships, Aircraft & Weapons of the US Navy (DVD)
BM423D
$10.00  
DVD
Featuring 81 classes of fighting ships and warbirds of the fleet in motion picture profile. From carriers such as Nimitz, Eisenhower, Enterprise, Kitty Hawk to missile cruisers and aerial fleet weapons including A7 Corsair, Hawkeye, A6 Intruder, F14 Tomcat and much more.
Task Force: Power at Sea (DVD)
Task Force: Power at Sea (DVD)
BMH420D
$10.00  
DVD, 97278004205
Hook Down, Wheels Down: Featuring Naval Aces at their finest including the Langely, Saratoga, Lexington, Enterprize, Wasp, Hornet, Ranger and their fighting aircraft the Wildcat, Dauntless, Avenger and the Hellcat. Seapower - Plymouth Rock To Polaris: American seapower from the creaking decks of...
Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy
Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy
ACB132
$12.00  
Hardcover, John Boyle, 304 pages, 6 x 1.2 x 9, 9781472912671
For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy--a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47s, they range up to a thousand miles from home shores in Somalia. No one...
Ship Spotter's Guide
Ship Spotter's Guide
RAN338
$12.00  
Paperback, Angus Konstam, 128 pages, 7.5 x 0.4 x 5.1, 9781472808691
Ships have been part of military campaigns since the Ancient world, and this expertly illustrated and detailed Spotter's Guide offers a look at the 40 most iconic and recognizable ships throughout history. From the Viking longship through to the powerful modern aircraft carriers, and from the...
Ghost Stories of the Sea
Ghost Stories of the Sea
LPP013
$12.95  
Paperback, Barbara Smith, 224 pages, 5.25 x 8.25, 9781894877237
The high seas are sinister places, where powerful storms overwhelm unsuspecting ships and desperate sailors clash, often with tragic results. As Barbara Smith shows in this fascinating collection, many who die at sea soon return as ghosts and eerie premonitions that enrich the sea's...
The Queen's Pirate: Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind
The Queen's Pirate: Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind
IPS196
$12.95  
Paperback, Kevin Jackson, 128 pages, 5.5 x 7.5, 9781948585187
For more than four centuries, Sir Francis Drake has been world-famous for his feats as a master mariner – the captain who “singed the King of Spain’s beard” with his daredevil attack on the fleet at Cadiz, and who led the British Navy to victory against the Spanish Armada in 1588. But Drake’s...
Navigational Instruments
Navigational Instruments
MPS163
$14.00  
Paperback, Richard Dunn, 80 pages, 4.4 x 0.3 x 8.3, 9780747815068
With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of...
Shipwrecks & Lost Treasures: Great Lakes
Shipwrecks & Lost Treasures: Great Lakes
GPT039
$14.95  
Paperback, Michael Varhola, 206 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 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.
Rescue at the Top of the World
Rescue at the Top of the World
PAR033
$14.95  
Paperback, Shawn Shallow, 291 pages, 9 x 5.9, 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....
Lost Treasure Ships of the Oregon Coast
Lost Treasure Ships of the Oregon Coast
SPC058
$14.99  
Paperback, Theodore Schellhase, 176 pages, 9 x 5.9 x 0.6, 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...
Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
SKY128
$14.99  
Paperback, 280 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 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 noise.”  So...
Heroes Beneath the Waves: True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century
Heroes Beneath the Waves: True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century
SKY148
$14.99  
Paperback, Mary Nida Smith, 224 pages, 6 x 9, 9781634505123
The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea. In  Heroes Beneath the Waves , many brave men who rode submarines to great depths and across the oceans into unknown territory share their experiences, fears, and thoughts. They allow us to travel back in time through...
A Short Bright Flash: Augustina Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
A Short Bright Flash: Augustina Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
WWN296
$15.95  
Paperback, Theresa Levitt, 9780393350890
How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives. . Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times...
The Pirate King: The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
The Pirate King: The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
SKY164
$15.99  
Paperback, Graham A. Thomas, 264 pages, 6 x 9, 9781510755697
A compelling new account of history's most famous pirate. The Pirate King  is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. The inspiration for dozens of fictionalized pirates in film, television, and...
Great American Shipwreck Stories
Great American Shipwreck Stories
NBN030
$16.00  
Paperback, Tom McCarthy, 304 pages, 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches, 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...
Last Fish Tale
Last Fish Tale
PGN096
$16.00  
Paperback, Mark Kurlansky, 269 pages, 5 x 7.75, 9781594483745
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Cod, Salt," and "The Big Oyster" comes the colorful story of a way of life that for hundreds of years has defined much of America's coastlines but is slowly disappearing. Illustrated.  
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day PAPERBACK
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day PAPERBACK
PGW257
$16.00  
Paperback, Carrie Gibson, 480 pages, 6 x 9, 9780802124319
Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the  Santa Maria  and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In  Empire’s Crossroads , historian Carrie Gibson offers a vivid, panoramic view of this...
Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
HRW112
$16.99  
Paperback, David Barrie, 384 pages, 5.3 x 0.9 x 8, 9780062279354
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's  Longitude  comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer,...
Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway
HRW159
$16.99  
Hardcover, N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, Timothy Orr, Laura Orr, 336 pages, 6 x 9, 9780062692351
Hailed as "t he single most effective pilot at Midway" ( World War II   magazine),   Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of Midway, including two aircraft carriers, helping turn the tide of the Second World War. This is his extraordinary memoir....
Longitude
Longitude
WAC005
$17.00  
Paperback, Dava Sobel, 180 pages, 4.5 x 7.5, 9780802715296
Engagingly told true story of John Harrison, the lone genius who met the greatest scientific challenge of his time by perfecting the marine chronometer and solving the problem of measuring longitude at sea, profoundly altering history. Color photos.
The Journals of Captain Cook
The Journals of Captain Cook
PGN134
$17.00  
Paperback, Capt. James Cook, 9780140436471
Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific. Accounts...
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
PER048
$17.99  
Paperback, Stephen R. Bown, 9780306822667
 The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries-the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole-remained blank spots on the...
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
HPC170
$17.99  
Paperback, Andrés Reséndez , 304 pages, 5 x 7, The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery—and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plo
The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery—and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history   It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal’s monopoly...
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
PGN018
$18.00  
Paperback, Mark Kurlansky, 282 pages, 5 x 7.25, 9780140275018
Spans a thousand years and four continents to tell the history of cod fishing and the fish that changed the world and made possible the settlement of North America.  
Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
PGN222
$18.00  
Paperback, Brian Hicks & Schuyler Kropf, 330 pages, 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2, 9780345447722
The history of the Confederate submarine  H. L. Hunley  is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron “fish boat” vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of...
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
RAN080
$18.00  
Paperback, Brian Hicks, 304 pages, 5.25 X 8, 9780345466655
On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship...
Six Frigates
Six Frigates
WWN014
$18.95  
Paperback, Ian Toll, 560 pages, 6 x 95, 9780393330328
The epic history if the founding of the American Navy and how a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting humbled the omnipotent Royal Navy. From the decision to build six heavy frigates through the war of 1812.
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever (Maritime History and Piracy, Globalization, Caribbean History)
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever (Maritime History and Piracy, Globalization, Caribbean History)
IPS172
$18.95  
Paperback, Rebecca Simon, 256 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781642503371
For Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories "Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber." ― Wreck Watch Magazine #1 New Release in Globalization How the global manhunt for Captain...
Never Say P*g: The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions
Never Say P*g: The Book of Sailors’ Superstitions
HPC166
$18.95  
Hardcover, R. Bruce Macdonald, 176 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781550179798
The nautical reference book you never knew you needed: a compendium of all superstitions maritime and marine. Learn your A-B-Seas of sailors’ guiding magic and mythos―and why you should never stir your tea with a knife, lest you invite trouble and strife. Ever wondered why the skipper gave...
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