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 Nelson: a Personal HistoryBest Price: $62.75 Britain's greatest naval hero, Nelson was a complex and contradictory character. This... |  The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them DownBest Price: $40.31 Generally speaking, if you take a closer look at historical events such as the surge in piracy... |  The Wreck of the Whaleship EssexBest Price: $6.95 Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of the flood..... ... |  The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them DownBest Price: $8.51 The Golden Age of Piracy, roughly a 30 year period at the beginning of the 18th century, has... |  Southwest Coast of Africa, 2001 (Paper with CD-ROM): Pub. 123 (Sailing Directions (Enroute))NIMA Pub 123. 8th edition. Corrected to 1 September 2001, including Notice to Mariners No.... |
 Code of Federal Regulations, Title 46, Shipping, Pt. 500-End, Revised as of October 1, 2004The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published... |  Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, Transportation, Pt. 400-599, Revised as of October 1, 2004Official U.S. Government edition. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49 is composed of eight... |  Cross Currents and Community Networks: The History of the Indian Ocean WorldBest Price: $42.00 This volume of maritime history shifts the focus from the European links of the Indian Ocean... |  The Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Response to Growth in the Uk Merchant Fleet: Forty-fourth Report of Session 2008-09 - Report, Together With ... Oral and Written Evidence (House of Commons)Best Price: $23.00 |  The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor |
 The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War (Civil War America)Best Price: $15.93 The Civil War is one of the last bastions of the amateur historian, and has given rise to a lot... |  Towboat on the Ohio (Ohio River Valley Series)Best Price: $23.77 |  The Evolution of the Wooden ShipBest Price: $221.08 Originally published in 1988, The Evolution of the Wooden Ship is a special tribute to the... |  The Encyclopedia of Pirates and Piracy |  Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges (Perspectives on the Global Past)Best Price: $36.87 The world's seas and oceans have played roles of great significance in world history,... |
 The Cruising Chef Cookbook, 2nd Ed.Best Price: $70.86 I got my first copy of this book back in about 1994, before we went cruising around the... |  Hawkins' Voyages During the Reigns of Henry Viii, Queen Elizabeth and James I (Hakluyt Society, 1st Series, No 57) |  Medieval Ships and ShippingBest Price: $164.12 In medieval Europe, water transport was paramount, on inland waterways, along the coast and... |  Liners: The Golden Age/Die Grobe Zeit Der Ozeanriesen/L'Age D'Or Des PaquebotsBest Price: $47.50 There is something about big ships - especially (though not exclusively) big passenger liners... |  Boat Building Techniques |
 Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' WivesBest Price: $10.00 Great overview of the men that once made their living on the sea and the women that supported... |  Shackleton's Boat JourneyBest Price: $4.95 Frank Worsley's description of the boat journey he made with Shackleton and two other... |  Alone: Orphaned on the OceanBest Price: $3.68 Alone is the extraordinary account of Terry Jo Duperrault, who, at age eleven, survived four... |  Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View of Cape HornBest Price: $7.52 Where to begin with this book? Is it a first-person sailing narrative of the author's trip... |  Fatal Treasure: Greed and Death, Emeralds and Gold, and the Obsessive Search for the Legendary Ghost Galleon AtochaBest Price: $14.96 Fatal Treasure is the companion to the book "Treasure of Atocha: A Four Hundred Million... |
 Fatal Treasure: Greed and Death, Emeralds and Gold, and the Obsessive Search for the Legendary Ghost Galleon AtochaBest Price: $5.37 Fancinating subject matter that should have been handled better. I would give it 5 stars just... |  Coastmaster: the Story of Captain James Greig |  Story of the "Titanic": 24 Cards (Dover Postcards)Best Price: $3.58 Dover Publications is one of my favorite imprints for their combination of low cost and high... |  The Story of the "Mary Celeste"Best Price: $26.45 THis book is the most authoratative work on the mystery of the Mary Celeste. Originally... |  Medieval Ships and Shipping (The Archaeology of Medieval Britain)I found this book to be quite fascinating and readable (unlike so many authors of scholarly... |
 The Sailor (Ladybird Easy Reading Book) |  Port Designers HandbookBest Price: $299.57 This edition of the Port Designer's Handbook is an outdated version and members should have... |  New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners (NJ) (Images of America)Best Price: $14.61 The New Jersey shore swarmed with rum smugglers during the 1920's. This book is a priceless... |  Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody ReignBest Price: $17.28 He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades?and brought it to... |  Chatham Dockyard in Old Photographs (Britain in Old Photographs) |
 A Hymn for Eternity: The Story of Wallace Hartley, Titanic BandmasterI've waited for a biography on Wallace Hartley, TITANIC's heroic bandmaster, for a long... |  Directory of the World's SteamshipsBest Price: $14.73 From 1840 to the 1960's, steam ruled the waves, yet over the course of the past 50 years,... |  Normandie |  Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's WorldBest Price: $16.04 O'Brian began writing his now near legendary series of sea stories about "Lucky... |  Modern Cruise Ships, 1965-1990: A Photographic Record (Dover Books on Transportation, Maritime)Best Price: $62.26 This is another great work by William H. Miller. Excellent choice of photographs throughout.... |
 Learning to Sail (Dover Maritime)Best Price: $3.99 I learned to sail in a 19 foot "Lightning" class sailboat holding this book in... |  Ready-to-Use Nautical Illustrations (Pictorial Archive)Best Price: $282.54 65 copyright-free illustrations?each in 3 sizes?depict lovely mermaids, seafood restaurants,... |  Picture History of British Ocean Liners, 1900 to the PresentBest Price: $31.46 This fascinating text-and-picture tribute documents both interiors and exteriors of majestic... |  The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy (Dover Maritime)Best Price: $4.96 The auther, a man of considerable education, means and ego, tells of the 1887 sailing of his 21... |  How to Build Egyptian Boat Models: Patterns and Instructions for Three Royal Vessels (Dover Maritime)Best Price: $3.94 A unique model-building experience, this beginner-level guide details everything needed to... |
 Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10 |  Ancient Boats in North-West Europe: The Archaeology of Water Transport to Ad 1500 (Longman Archaeology Series)Best Price: $93.03 At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Sean McGrail's... |  Mary Celeste: The Greatest Mystery of the SeaBest Price: $7.93 This is an excellent telling of the mystery of the "Mary Celeste. Mr. Begg does not... |  Forty Wooden Boats: A Third Catalogue of Building Plans (Woodenboat Books) |  Offshore: An Artist's View of Britain's IslandsBest Price: $15.37 From the author and illustrator of the bestselling Rain Later, Good comes this wonderful new... |
 The RYA Book of the International Certificate of CompetenceBest Price: $80.87 This book aims to help yachtsmen and motorboaters pass the ICC test - essential for anyone... |  Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2007Best Price: $21.65 the author is stuck in the post war period and doesn't know there's something called a... |  The Good Ship: Ships, Shipbulding and Technology in England 1200-1520 |  The Washington Conference, 1921-22: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor (Diplomacy & Statecraft)Best Price: $47.63 This book is a collection of ten papers on the Washington Naval Limitation Conference in the... |  Glenans Guides: Coastal NavigationBest Price: $10.93 This guide is aimed at recreational sailors at all levels. Practical examples demonstrate... |
 A History of the Port of DublinBest Price: $25.84 | The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War (Civil War America) Best Price: $15.93 The Civil War is one of the last bastions of the amateur historian, and has given rise to a lot... | Towboat on the Ohio (Ohio River Valley Series) Best Price: $23.77 | The Evolution of the Wooden Ship Best Price: $221.08 Originally published in 1988, The Evolution of the Wooden Ship is a special tribute to the... | The Encyclopedia of Pirates and Piracy |
| Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges (Perspectives on the Global Past) Best Price: $36.87 The world's seas and oceans have played roles of great significance in world history,... | The Cruising Chef Cookbook, 2nd Ed. Best Price: $70.86 I got my first copy of this book back in about 1994, before we went cruising around the... | Hawkins' Voyages During the Reigns of Henry Viii, Queen Elizabeth and James I (Hakluyt Society, 1st Series, No 57) | Medieval Ships and Shipping Best Price: $164.12 In medieval Europe, water transport was paramount, on inland waterways, along the coast and... | Liners: The Golden Age/Die Grobe Zeit Der Ozeanriesen/L'Age D'Or Des Paquebots Best Price: $47.50 There is something about big ships - especially (though not exclusively) big passenger liners... |
| Boat Building Techniques |  China Tea ClippersThe history of the China tea clippers is examined in this book, especially their struggle in the... |  Pilot Pack: v. 2This series of pilotage guides aims to provide the user with all he needs to cruise or race from... |  The Slave Ship FredensborgBest Price: $14.00 This book is essentially two books in one. The first two-thirds or so of it focus in depth on... |  Hen Frigates - Wives Of Merchant Captains Under Sail |
 Destroyers of World War TwoFast, compact and formidable, destroyers were in the thick of the action in every theatre of... |  Daily Life in the Age of Sail: (The Greenwood Press "Daily Life Through History" Series)Best Price: $27.49 This is my favorite of the Daily Life series. It describes the sailing life of old. It begins... |  Inside the " Titanic " (A Madison Press book) |  TrafalgarBest Price: $254.70 This seems to be the same book as the American Published one entitled "Trafalgar, a battle... |  Captain James Cook |
 Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing CrewBest Price: $30.00 "Ghost ship" is an old mariner's term for any vessel found sailing without a crew.... |  Captain Bucko's Nauti-Words Handbook: Fascinating Facts and Fables About the Origins of Hundreds of Nautical Terms and Everyday ExpressionsBest Price: $13.59 If you've ever wondered where many of our popular everyday expressions come from, you will... |  Disasters at Sea: Titanic to Exxon Valdez by Cahill, Richard A. |  Championship Tactics How Anyone Can Sail Faster, Smarter and Win Races |  Cruising: A Manual for Small Cruiser SailingBest Price: $14.47 ...a wise skipper balances the stamina of himself and his crew against the performance of his... |
 First Time Crew: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know but Never Dared to Ask the SkipperBest Price: $5.00 This book is designed to prepare and allay the fears of those newcomers who for the first time... |  Modern Boat Maintenance: The Complete Fiberglass Boat ManualThis is a book offering advice on repairing, maintaining or improving a fibreglass yacht or... |  Complete Book of Laser SailingThis book on laser sailing provides information on everything concerning setting up sail and... |  Boat Data BookBest Price: $52.17 The Boat Data Book is a treasure trove of invaluable technical information for builders,... |  How to Build the Ocean Pointer ( " WoodenBoat Books " ) |
 Knots in UseBest Price: $1.48 More than 100,000 copies sold! Knots in Use is a bestseller amongst knotting books. Uniquely it... |  Sailing for DummiesBest Price: $5.98 I used this text as a secondary supplement for an American Sailing Association "sailing... |  Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841 (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)Best Price: $55.20 Before contact with white people, the Northwest Coast natives had traded amongst themselves and... |  Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and California 1845-1850 (American Biography Series) |  America's Victory: Library EditionBest Price: $15.72 |
 The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome"Utterly compulsive and unputdownable--the most exciting, authentic, and humanly moving of... |  The Early Exploration of Inland Washington Waters: Journals and Logs from Six Expeditions, 1786-1792Best Price: $49.95 When I was working on my book Paddling the Waters of Vashon Island I looked for a good... |  Tales from Korea: The Royal New Zealand Navy in the Korean War |  The French Navy and the Seven Years' War (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and D)Best Price: $54.49 The author of a widely acclaimed book on French involvement in the American Revolution, in his... |  The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 (Studies in War, Society, and the Militar)Best Price: $16.97 For almost 200 hundred years the British and French navies dominated the world. As two of the... |
 The Voyage of the 'Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium TradeBest Price: $16.95 A model of the Frolic is on display at the Cabrillo Lighthouse, Mendocino, CA. Before you visit... | ||||
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