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  • Best Cutters of the Best Coast Guard
    Brian Runion
    From the author of 25 Awesome Facts about the Coast Guard and creator The Claw of Knowledge comes this long-awaited collection of unbelievable tales about the world’s greatest Coast Guard (the American one). This is not the Coast Guard you know (assuming you know it at all).Fifteen ships, fifteen epic stories. Follow the Coast Guard as it battles storms, fights pirates, sinks s...
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    37,12 €

  • The Last True Clipper
    Dick Wagner
    The last United States-built clipper ship was constructed in 1874 in the small shipbuilding town of North Bend Oregon. Hailed for its record-breaking speed from Astoria to Liverpool, its journeys ended a mere 4 years after construction under interesting circumstances. The Last True Clipper details everything that we know about the last of these speedy vessels: detailed specific...
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    10,94 €

  • Ali the Canary. A Barbary corsair
    Moisés Morán Vega
    In this captivating novel, the life of Simón Romero, famously known as Ali the Canary, unfolds as one of the most significant corsairs of the 17th century. Sailing the vast Mediterranean and Atlantic waters to the coasts of Portugal, Ali Romero’s story is a tale of adventure, resilience, and transformation.Born in 1639 on Triana Street in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canar...
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    16,60 €

  • The Leaving of Liverpool
    Michael Walsh
    After training as a Merchant Navy deckhand in 1959 the author Michael Walsh shipped out on the last of the White Star Line’s fleet, RMS Britannic.He went on to serve under the ensigns of many shipping companies. These include Cunard White Star, Blue Star, Coast Lines, Elder Dempster, Palm Line, Cayzer Irvine, Union Castle, Canadian Pacific Railways, PSNC, Shell, Ellerman and Pa...
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    27,34 €

  • The Attempted Assassination of King Henry III
    David EP Dennis
    In 1238, as King Henry III of England lay with his child bride at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, a crazed assassin entered his bedroom. Who had sent that assassin and why is the subject of this book. It involves the pirates of Lundy Island, corruption in Ireland, a gang of London murderers and a king who made dreadful decisions.In 1238, England was reeling from economic and military...
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    22,51 €

  • Historical Records of Maritime Tragedies
    Shah Rukh
    'Historical Records of Maritime Tragedies' presents gripping tales of ships lost to the depths, crews vanished without a trace, and vessels destroyed by natural and human forces. Spanning centuries and oceans, this collection uncovers the bravery, tragedy, and enduring mysteries of the sea. Each story offers a unique glimpse into the ocean’s power and the relentless human spiri...
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    22,21 €

  • The Historical Pirates
    Shah Rukh
    'The Historical Pirates' is a captivating exploration of the lives and legacies of forty-five legendary figures who roamed the seas during the Golden Age of Piracy. From the fearless exploits of Blackbeard and Grace O’Malley to the cunning strategies of Francis Drake and Cheng I Sao, this book offers a comprehensive look at the diverse world of piracy. With meticulous research ...
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    21,18 €

  • Round Manhattan’s Rim
    Helen Worden
    Helen Worden wrote The Real New York and established herself as an authority plenipotentiary and chronicler extraordinary of the quaint and unusual. She does not bother with the show places that everybody knows. She strikes out for the unfamiliar, the unique, in Bagdad-on-the-Hudson.She wasn’t born in New York, but she might as well have been, so young when she first came to Ma...
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    20,11 €

  • JOURNEY TO THE JONES ACT
    Charlie Papavizas
    The 'Jones Act' is the most newsworthy U.S. maritime policy law.Most of the attention is focused on the preservation of U.S. domestic maritime trade. Some is focused on the law as a means for mariners to recover for injuries.But this attention is too narrow. The 'Jones Act' was originally understood to mean the whole of the 1920 Merchant Marine Act, which deals with far more th...
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    21,91 €

  • A Bridge To Peradeniya
    Anand Krishnaswamy
    Blurb of  A Bridge to PeradeniyaA dog that wins everyone’s affection by barking and laughing madly through her ailment. A stud bull that conveys the melancholy in his soul through his eyes. A kiosk owner whose sunny personality bounces off the tree stump where he leaves food for the neighbourhood strays. A chic lady with a rescued street dog and a penchant for profanity.These a...
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    19,72 €

  • Terranova. La Odisea Ballenera
    Sabino Laucirica
    Cuando tuve en mis manos el testamento de Domingo de Luça, aquel que se escribió en la cubierta de la nao María del Juncal por la mano experta del escribano Juan de Blancafor, en el verano del año 1563 y leí las palabras del moribundo que mi cuerpo sea sepultado en este puerto de Plazencia a un lugar donde los que mueren se suelen enterrar comprendí que el camino emprendido era...
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    25,48 €

  • A Brief History of the Titanic - Fascinating Historical Facts of Titanic’s Tragic Tale
    Scott Matthews
    Eager to uncover the truths behind the Titanic’s legendary voyage? Fascinated by the tales of luxury and disaster aboard the iconic liner? Ready to dive into the depths of this century-old story?A Brief History of the Titanic brings to life the captivating narrative of the world’s most famous ship. This book isn’t just about a tragedy; it’s about the people, the dreams, and the...
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    30,62 €

  • A Brief History of the Titanic - Fascinating Historical Facts of Titanic’s Tragic Tale
    Scott Matthews
    Eager to uncover the truths behind the Titanic’s legendary voyage? Fascinated by the tales of luxury and disaster aboard the iconic liner? Ready to dive into the depths of this century-old story?A Brief History of the Titanic brings to life the captivating narrative of the world’s most famous ship. This book isn’t just about a tragedy; it’s about the people, the dreams, and the...
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    12,24 €

  • The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty
    Arthur L. Smith
    In 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become the largest excursion riverboat operation serving the Mississippi from St. Paul to New Orleans and the Ohio from Pittsburg to St. Louis. Streckfus built the sternwheeler J.S., the first purposed sightseeing and music/dance riverboat in 1900. When the J.S. suffered ...
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    68,36 €

  • The Luckiest Thirteen
    Brian W Lavery / Brian W. Lavery
    A relentless nautical drama that would define, or end, men’s lives.The English port city of Hull was home to ‘three day millionaires’ - trawlermen on brief shore leave. They were spilling cash from record catches. With months out working fierce seas, who knew if the next trip would be their last?The St Finbarr was set to change all that.She was built as the perfect trawler, no ...
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    16,15 €

  • Andrés de Urdaneta en su tornaviaje
    Carlos Pérez Ariza
    La primera globalización de la Tierra vino de manode un ordiziarra de Guipuzkoa: Andrés de Urdaneta.El número de guipuzcoanos, navarros y vizcaínosen la aventura española de ultramar es más quepredominante. No se podría entender el auge marítimode la Monarquía Hispana, durante más de tres siglos, sinla aportación de los habitantes de estas tierras. En aquelcontexto se usaban co...
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    20,28 €

  • Military Strategy for Writers
    Stephen Kenneth Stein
    Sun Tzu said, 'Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.' Your characters deserve your best strategic thinking. Are you ready to learn the secrets known by Sun Tzu, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mao, Clauswitz, and other famed strategists? War: A source of enduring fascination to readers and the crucible that reveals character. Quality strategic thinking transforms ...
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    16,18 €

  • The Rise and Demise of the Largest Sailing Ships
    Allan B Wood
    Immerse yourself in the height of the 'Golden Age of Sail' in the early 1900s, when America’s insatiable appetite for coal and building materials encouraged shipbuilders to design and construct the world’s largest sailing ships. Ten original giant six-masted schooners and the only seven-masted vessel, the Thomas W. Lawson, were built between 1900-1909, all measuring over the le...
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    36,35 €

  • The Rise and Demise of the Largest Sailing Ships
    Allan B Wood
    Immerse yourself in the height of the 'Golden Age of Sail' in the early 1900s, when America’s insatiable appetite for coal and building materials encouraged shipbuilders to design and construct the world’s largest sailing ships. Ten original giant six-masted schooners and the only seven-masted vessel, the Thomas W. Lawson, were built between 1900-1909, all measuring over the le...
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    23,81 €

  • Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845
    Stephen Zorn
    The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition’s two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after ...
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    58,50 €

  • Die 99 übelsten Piraten aller Zeiten
    Vincent Gildemar
    Francis Drake, Henry Morgan, Jean Bar, Peter Hain, Pierre Lemoine d’Iberville, Paul Jones, Thomas Cavendish, Oliver van Noort, William Dampier, Woods Rogers, Edward England, Bartholomew Roberts, Estash, Earl of Cumberland, Chevalier de Fontaine, George Anson. Dieses erste Buch der umfassenden Reihe 'Piratenwissenschaften' stellt dem Leser die 99 berühmtesten Piraten, Korsaren u...
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    26,68 €

  • Seaward
    Harold Bradley
    Harold Bradley learned early in life, through family lore, that one of his great-great granduncles was an Irish sea captain. Sadly, the family lore was scanty. All it offered was a name, William Kelly, and two intriguing, albumin photographic prints-one of a large man squeezed into an ornate Victorian armchair; another of the same man, just head and shoulders, his penetrating g...
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    12,81 €

  • Moon Over Port Royal
    Horace B Alexander
    In the mid-seventeenth century, John Bolt, a dark-skinned Jamaican freedman is implicated in the death of a prominent European on the island. Bolt flees to the hills where he survives and returns to Port Royal as Kwaku, an itinerant small farmer peddling his ground provisions from door to door, including the residence of English clergyman Emanuel Heath. Kwaku cultivates a relat...
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    13,49 €

  • Destiny’s Voyage
    Robert 'Bob' Love
    History tells the story in print and film of the greatest sea disaster of a dynamic luxury liner, the RMS Titanic, but history has omitted this story of the other greatest loss of the RMS Titanic’s ancestor of the White Star Line. the SS Atlantic. Although the passenger compliment was less the percentage of loss was greater than the Titanic and equally horrific. You will take a...
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    18,32 €

  • Capture of the Sloop Ranger
    Gregory Duhamel
    A deeply researched book describing the events leading up to and the aftermath of the capture of the Pirate Sloop, Ranger, Captained by Charles Harris, one of 26 to be tried and hung for Acts of Piracy against the British Royal Navy in Newport, Rhode Island in the summer of 1723.This book will explore the genealogical backgrounds of specific pirates and Political figures which ...
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    18,18 €

  • The History of Old Winchelsea
    David EP Dennis
    The medieval town of Old Winchelsea was destroyed by a great storm in 1287. Remarkably, it lasted for several hundred years on a shingle bank in the middle of Rye Bay in Sussex, England. This book describes the formation of the town, its incredible history of seaborne heroism, privateering and piracy, and its final destruction along with Dunwich in Suffolk, Old Romney, and Broo...
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    22,55 €

  • Soviet Attack Submarines
    Mark H. Glissmeyer
    Following the unimpressive performance of the Soviet Navy during World War Two, Soviet leadership realized that a stronger navy would be an important factor in their drive to gain recognition for their world power status. In less than a decade, the Soviet Union would develop a large naval force and would operate the largest submarine fleet in the world. By Stalin’s death in...
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    18,83 €

  • The Ship Wife
    Anne Vines
    In Ireland in 1795, young housemaid Elizabeth is arrested and charged with sedition.  On the transport ship, confined to the captain’s cabin, Elizabeth must please and obey. As the captain’s ship wife, she survives one of the most notorious transportation voyages to New South Wales. Six convicts are flogged to death. This so exceeds the usual brutality of transportation that Go...
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    27,71 €

  • Imperial steam
    Jonathan Stafford
    Imperial steam explores the early history of a steamship route which was at the heart of the functioning of the British Empire. More so than the practical changes wrought by steam, the book argues that the modernity associated with the steamship provided a powerful imaginative frame of reference for narrating Britain’s place in its imperial world. ...
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    29,28 €

  • The Great Sea-Serpent
    Anthonie C. Oudemans
    In this groundbreaking work Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, explores the mysterious and elusive creature known as the great sea-serpent. Originally published in 1892, this book remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched studies of sea serpents to date. Oudemans became immensely fascinated by this often enormous creature, and spent three years of intensive research be...
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    35,53 €


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