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Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest: Tragedies and Legacies of a Perilous Coast - Book
NBN049
SUBMERGED STORIES FROM THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest investigates some of the most compelling historic shipwrecks—from the infamous to the nearly forgotten. Explore a handful of these vessels, fated to have their final resting place along 150 miles of the rugged Northwest coastline, including near the dangerous mouth of the Columbia River. Combining archaeological analysis and new research, this unique collection uncovers the tales of peril, tragedy, and heroism along with...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6.3x9.3
Author: Maritime Archaeological Society
ISBN: 9781493044535
$2695
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Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea - Book
LYB071
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 equal coverage to Admiral Nelson. Without Admiral Brown releasing Garibaldi, modern Italy might not exist. And without the barely known genius John Ericsson designing the Monitor, the Confederacy might have won the American Civil War. Readers will be stimulated to read more about the remarkable men explorers, admirals, and trawlermen who have shaped...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 1.2 x 5 x 8
Author: Terry Breverton
ISBN: 9781599219790
$2995
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Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific - Book
ARC175
Despite its idyllic setting, the coast of the Pacific Northwest has another, darker name by which it is known: the "Graveyard of the Pacific." Two thousand ships and countless lives have been lost to the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and the Columbia River has claimed many more. The spirits of early settlers, Native Americans and drowned mariners are said to linger near the shores. From ghostly treasure hunters eternally searching for buried gold to a graveyard filled with souls that met violent ends, legends abound. Join author Ira Wesley Kitmacher as he uncovers mysterious tales and takes readers on a road trip through this most haunted...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Ira Wesley Kitmacher
ISBN: 9781467149501
$2199
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Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales - Book
SKY128
“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 began William Bligh’s explanation of the infamous mutiny aboard the  Bounty . His account of his capture and his phenomenal navigation of a small boat filled with men desperate to survive is one of the greatest sailing stories ever told.  It is just one account readers will find in  Astounding Sea Stories ―many that have been sitting unread...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 9781944824242
$1499
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On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend [Paperback]
On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend [Paperback] - Book
SMP064
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 helicopter was hit by a rogue wave, sending it into frigid waters. While readers will not find much nuance here and the dialogue sometimes falls into hyperbole, Deadliest Catch fans will appreciate hearing more about Alaska's dangerous environment, and there is plenty of tense human drama for even the most hardened disaster epic fan. An epilogue provides...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9
Author: Spike Walker
ISBN: 9780312604592
$2099
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Lost Treasure Ships of the Oregon Coast
Lost Treasure Ships of the Oregon Coast - Book
SPC058
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 and eyewitness accounts of survivors from shipwrecks who intermarried with local tribes. Return to the days of treasure ships and their mysteries along the Oregon coast.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9 x 0.6
Author: Theodore Schellhase
ISBN: 9780764331978
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Shipwrecks of Coos County
Shipwrecks of Coos County - Book
ARC052
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 traveled overland to Port Orford, where they told other settlers about the Coos Bay and its many natural resources. By December 1853, Coos County was established by the territorial legislature, and several towns were founded; the history of the area had been completely altered by a single shipwreck.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: H.S. Contino
ISBN: 9780738581576
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Great American Shipwreck Stories
Great American Shipwreck Stories - Book
NBN030
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 on a desert island. Capturing all the elements of ancient and powerful tragedy, this book is chockful of thrilling tales of survival - as well as a frightful examination of man's darkest impulses - which allow the reader a gruesome glimpse behind the veil of honor and bravery that history often ascribes to such men of the sea.  These are all...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Author: Tom McCarthy
ISBN: 9781493033713
$1600
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Shipwrecks & Lost Treasures: Great Lakes
Shipwrecks & Lost Treasures: Great Lakes - Book
GPT039
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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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Michael Varhola
ISBN: 9780762744923
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The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story - Book
ABI001
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 realization: “We’re dead.” Thus began the gripping 40-hour torture as Larry waited for rescue or death. In February 1982, the Coast Guard worked this North Pacific search and rescue, which still remains unforgettable in Coast Guard annals. This is the story of a man’s continued courage to fight his way through the lonely and painful hours of survival and disability...
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Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.6 x 9
Author: Abigail B. Calkin Ph.D.
ISBN: 9780615591933
$1895
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway - Book - Paracay
Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway - Book
PGW291
A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history—and present — of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world   Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific.   Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late 18 th century. For decades ships continued to make the bar crossing with great peril, first with...
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Author: Randall Sullivan
ISBN: 9780802163370
$1800
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Shipwrecks of the California Coast - Book
ARC166
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 only to strike a rock and sink in twenty minutes, sending 128 passengers to watery graves. Seven U.S. Navy destroyers, bound on a fateful 1923 night from San Francisco to San Diego, crashed into the rocks at Honda Point on the treacherous Santa Barbara County coast, killing 23 sailors in one of the military's worst peacetime losses. Join author...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Michael D. White
ISBN: 9781609499242
$2199
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Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea - Book
INT465
"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 world's oceans, John Kretschmer has plenty of stories and advice to share. John's offshore training passages sell out a year in advance and his entertaining presentations are popular at boat shows and yacht clubs all over the English speaking world. John's talent for storytelling enchants his audience as it soaks up the lessons he learned during his...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: John Kretschmer
ISBN: 9780071704403
$2800
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Rescue at the Top of the World - Book
PAR033
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. Answering the call, three officers from the early U. S. Coast Guard and two missionaries volunteered to travel over 1,500 miles through the Arctic winter to reach the shipwrecked whalers. The rescuers' perilous four-month journey, through mountainous territory and barren sub-zero landscapes never before traversed, was fraught with blizzards,...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9
Author: Shawn Shallow
ISBN: 9780939837656
$1495
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Nights of Ice
Nights of Ice - Book
SMP043
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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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.25
Author: Spike Walker
ISBN: 9780312199937
$1899
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Bold Sea Stories: 21 Inspiring Adventures - Book
IPG090
Who doesn't love a good sea story? Award-winning newspaperman Marlin Bree crafts his true tales about the legends and the lore of the world's wickedest waters, from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, as well as upon (and in the dark depths) of the world's biggest inland ocean, Lake Superior. Here are 21 rousing stories of notorious storms, shipwrecks and courageous crews fighting incredible challenges -- and usually winning. This is nonfiction at its award-winning best: full-bodied tales crafted with a quick pace, a bold narrative, and an inspiring conclusion, as well as, now and then, no dry eyes. All stories are true, with real...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6x9
Author: Marlin Bree
ISBN: 9781892147356
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Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble
Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble - Book
INT460
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 luck. These tales will make you think "if these are the ways most sailors actually die, then what if I were in that situation?" These true-life stories are told in compelling, short narratives, with an insider's analysis of what contributed to the accidents so you know what not to do or what to look out for when you are on the water. You will learn...
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Book Type: Paperback
Author: Tom Lochhaas
ISBN: 9780071803311
$1000
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