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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....
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.
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...
The Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
The Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
PGN004
$19.00  
Paperback, Nathaniel Philbrick, 439 pages, 5.5 x 8, 9780142004838
America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling  In the Heart of the Sea  Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he...
The Oceans and the Stars - A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story - Book
The Oceans and the Stars - A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story - Book
HCT063
$30.00  
Hardcover, Mark Helprin, 512 pages, 6.5 x 9.3 x 1.8", 9781419769085
Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, presents a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love. A Navy captain near the end of a...
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.
The Sea and Civilization
The Sea and Civilization
RAN329
$28.00  
Paperback, Lincoln Paine, 784 pages, 9.6 x 7.1 x 1.9, 9781101970355
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s...
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.
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 - Book
A Short Bright Flash: Augustina Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse - Book
WWN296
$15.95  
Paperback, Theresa Levitt, 288 pages, 5.5 x 8.3, 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...
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...
Farragut Naval Training Station
Farragut Naval Training Station
ARC162
$21.99  
Paperback, Gayle E. Alvarez & Dennis Woolford, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738570969
The Farragut Naval Training Station, located near Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, was only operational between 1942 and 1946, but during that time it was the largest city in Idaho, the largest business in Idaho, and the second-largest U.S. naval training station. Named for Civil War hero Adm. David G....
Path Between the Seas
Path Between the Seas
SIM081
$22.99  
Paperback, David McCullough, 669 pages, 6 x 9, 9780671244095
The full story of the astonishing engineering feats, extraordinary medical advances, political power plays, heroic struggles, and human tragedies that went into the construction of the Panama Canal. Superb writing and scholarship.
Tall Ships on Puget Sound (Images of America)
Tall Ships on Puget Sound (Images of America)
ARC017
$24.99  
Paperback, Chuck Fowler, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9 inches, 9780738548142
This engaging pictorial history tells of the tall sailing ships that came to the Pacific Northwest beginning in the mid-1700s. Met by native Salish people, the ships brought Spanish, British, Russian, and American explorers, as well as settlers and entrepreneurs, to the region. Over the next two...
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.
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