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  • Attack Transport
    Kenneth H. Goldman
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    23,48 €

  • Into the Darkness
    Alan Rockwell
    They are all gone now, the Titanic survivors. No human being who stood on her decks that fateful night was alive to commemorate the event on its 100th anniversary. Their stories are with us, however, and the lessons remain.From the moment the world learned the Titanic had sunk, we wanted to know, who had survived? Those answers didn’t come until the evening of Thursday, April 1...
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    16,65 €

  • The Ebb and Flow in Indo-Pacific Maritime Scape
    The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the defining theatre of 21st-century geopolitics where competing visions of order, security and connectivity intersect in the vast maritime realm. Organised into four thematic sections- Indo-Pacific Setting, Policies, Strategies and Action this edited volume brings together diverse scholarly perspectives that examine the conceptual foundation of ...
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    45,14 €

  • Alone Around the World
    Gigi Romano
    For more than three decades, the world’s most demanding solo sailors have left the French coast to face a challenge of extraordinary simplicity and almost unimaginable difficulty: race alone, non-stop and without ordinary assistance around the planet. Alone Around the World tells the complete story of the competition now known as the Vendée Globe, tracing its origins through th...
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    21,04 €

  • The Ocean Liner Age
    Aaron Aaberg
    For more than a century, ocean liners were the great moving cities of the sea. They carried migrants towards uncertain new lives, wealthy travellers through floating palaces, soldiers into global wars and mail, cargo and ideas between distant continents. The Ocean Liner Age traces the extraordinary development of scheduled passenger shipping from the first steam-powered Atlanti...
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    20,69 €

  • Bahamian Islanders on the Maritime Highway
    Lisa Lawlor Feller
    Once regarded as a critical maritime highway in the wake of British abolition, the channels of The Bahamas became a crossroads where freedom, commerce, and control collided. As trade relationships shifted and power was renegotiated across the Atlantic world, the archipelago’s porous geography created opportunities for newly emancipated Black people--and, at the same time, for t...
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    42,74 €

  • Sailors, Settlers & Sinners
    Moira Taylor
    A dramatic escape from Napoleonic France, a near-fatal betrayal in colonial New Zealand, and the rise of a Prime Minister - Sailors, Settlers & Sinners is a richly researched true history of one family’s extraordinary journey across the 19th-century British Empire.Beginning in the port of Hull during the upheaval of the French Revolution, this compelling historical biography fo...
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    16,80 €

  • America’s Boston Light
    Allan B. Wood
    Boston Harbor’s numerous rocky islands and treacherous shoals wreaked havoc on mariners navigating the harbor at night, in fog, or during storms, leading to frequent shipwrecks. In 1715, the General Court of Massachusetts allocated funds to build a 'lighthouse' on Little Brewster Island at the entrance to the massive harbor, nearly ten miles from the Boston shore. Its location ...
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    17,40 €

  • A Night of Ice and Stars
    E.B Cohen
    On the night of 14 April 1912, on a flat-calm, moonless sea, the largest and most luxurious ship in the world brushed an iceberg for perhaps ten seconds - and two hours and forty minutes later she was gone, taking some fifteen hundred people with her into water two degrees below freezing. The Titanic had lifeboats for barely half the souls aboard, and she was four days into her...
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    25,58 €

  • Surviving the Lisbon Maru
    Andrew Salmon / Ken Salmon
    A forgotten World War II atrocity. A remarkable survival story. A tribute to courage, endurance, and humanity.In October 1942, the Japanese transport ship Lisbon Maru carrying 1,816 British prisoners of war from occupied Hong Kong toward forced labour camps in Japan was torpedoed off the coast of China by an American submarine. The POWs were trapped below deck in sealed holds a...
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    20,04 €

  • Naval Battles That Ruled the Seas
    Raphael Storen
    Naval Battles That Ruled the Seas is a powerful work of narrative naval history that examines how decisive fights at sea shaped empires, trade, and the balance of global power. Rather than treating naval battles as isolated moments of heroism, this book reveals them as turning points that reached far beyond the battlefield-into economies, politics, and the daily functioning of ...
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    43,19 €

  • Naval Battles That Ruled the Seas
    Raphael Storen
    Naval Battles That Ruled the Seas is a powerful work of narrative naval history that examines how decisive fights at sea shaped empires, trade, and the balance of global power. Rather than treating naval battles as isolated moments of heroism, this book reveals them as turning points that reached far beyond the battlefield-into economies, politics, and the daily functioning of ...
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    18,29 €

  • Shadows on the Waves
    Declan Joyce-Meagher
    In February 1799, an American frigate barely a year old closed on a French warship at night, and for the first time the young United States discovered its navy could actually win. Shadows on the Waves tells the story of the Quasi-War, the undeclared conflict that erupted when revolutionary France’s contempt for American neutrality curdled into outright piracy on the high seas -...
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    26,28 €

  • The Mutiny Book
    Aaron Aaberg
    For centuries, ships were isolated kingdoms where captains controlled food, punishment, wages, movement, and life itself. Crews were expected to obey through hunger, storms, battle, disease, and brutality-but obedience had limits. When sailors decided that command had become more dangerous than rebellion, the balance of power aboard a vessel could change within minutes. The Mut...
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    21,20 €

  • The Ships That Never Came Home
    Aaron Aaberg
    Across centuries of seafaring, ships have departed from familiar harbours carrying passengers, sailors, cargo and the expectation of arrival-only to disappear somewhere beyond the horizon. Some entered violent storms. Others sailed through war zones, ice fields or poorly charted waters. A few were later discovered abandoned, their boats missing and their crews gone. Many have n...
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    21,10 €

  • The Ferry
    Aaron Aaberg
    The ferry is one of the least celebrated yet most indispensable vessels ever built. It carries commuters across crowded harbours, tourists towards islands and distant coastlines, lorries through the night, and essential supplies to communities whose roads end at the water. For millions of passengers, it is simply part of an ordinary journey. For isolated islands, it is a lifeli...
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    20,85 €

  • Broken Hulls
    Aaron Aaberg
    For centuries, the sea carried passengers, soldiers, workers, refugees, fuel and the raw materials of civilisation. It also exposed every weakness hidden within the ships entrusted with their lives. A missing lifeboat, an overloaded deck, an open bow door, a misunderstood radar contact or a warning ignored ashore could transform an ordinary voyage into catastrophe. Broken Hulls...
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    24,25 €

  • Pirates
    Aaron Aaberg
    Piracy is as old as maritime trade itself. Wherever ships carried wealth beyond the protection of the shore, raiders followed-sometimes condemned as criminals, sometimes commissioned as privateers, and sometimes celebrated as national heroes. Pirates: From Ancient Raiders to the Modern High Seas presents a sweeping history of piracy across more than three thousand years. From t...
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    21,07 €

  • The Corsair War
    Aaron Aaberg
    Malta is remembered as the island that stopped the Ottoman Empire during the Great Siege of 1565. Behind the celebrated bastions, however, lay a harder and more complicated truth: the Knights of St John were not simply defenders. From the Grand Harbour, they conducted an aggressive maritime war, hunting Ottoman commerce, raiding hostile coasts, capturing vessels, and sustaining...
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    21,15 €

  • The Lighthouse Keepers
    Aaron Aaberg
    For centuries, lighthouse keepers occupied the loneliest edges of the inhabited world. They climbed wave-battered towers, trimmed smoking wicks, polished immense glass lenses, sounded fog signals, and kept watch while storms shook the walls around them. Their light guided countless ships to safety, yet the people who maintained it were rarely seen by those whose lives depended ...
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    21,20 €

  • The Shipwreck Map
    Aaron Aaberg
    Every shipwreck begins with a voyage-a planned route, a loaded cargo, a working crew, and the expectation of arrival. What remains beneath the waves is the evidence of where that expectation ended. The Shipwreck Map explores the hidden world of lost vessels, from ancient merchant ships and imperial treasure fleets to wartime convoys, passenger liners, fishing boats, submarines,...
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    20,24 €

  • The Lifeboat Story
    Aaron Aaberg
    For more than two centuries, lifeboat crews have launched into conditions that drove larger ships onto rocks, sandbanks, and exposed shores. They went without certainty of success, often powered only by oars and sail, guided by local knowledge, discipline, and an extraordinary willingness to risk their own lives for strangers. The Lifeboat Story traces the dramatic history of o...
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    20,23 €

  • The King of Two Seas
    Diarmuid Luby
    The King of Two Seas: Abdashtart I of Sidon and the Twilight of Phoenician Autonomy In 365 BC, a young king inherited an empty treasury, a fleet in ruins, and a throne squeezed between two of the ancient world’s most demanding masters. Abdashtart I of Sidon - Straton, to the Greeks who knew him - would spend the next decade rebuilding both, through a currency reform bold enough...
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    29,32 €

  • The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730 (Cram Edition)
    Ernest H. (Ernest Harvey) Pentecost / George Francis Dow / John Henry Edmonds
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730 pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The pirates of the New England coast 1630-1730' offers an authoritative historical examination of the buccaneers who terrorized colonial American waters. This meticulously resea...
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    31,88 €

  • A Diary of the Wreck of His Majesty’s Ship Challenger, on the Western Coast of South America, in May, 1835
    Anonymous
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Diary of the Wreck of His Majesty’s Ship Challenger, on the Western Coast of South America, in May, 1835 pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'A diary of the wreck of His Majesty’s ship Challenger, on the western coast of South America, in May, 1835' offers a ...
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    20,19 €

  • Rocks and Rips
    Linda Symonds
    The waters surrounding Cape Sable Island and the southern coast of Nova Scotia have claimed hundreds of vessels over the centuries. Hidden among the reefs, ledges, shoals, and powerful currents are stories of courage, tragedy, survival, and loss.In Rocks and Rips: Shipwrecks off Cape Sable, researcher and museum interpreter Linda Symonds brings together the stories of over 350 ...
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    39,55 €

  • Voyage of the Liberdade (Cram Edition)
    Joshua Slocum
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Voyage of the Liberdade pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Voyage of the Liberdade' recounts a remarkable true story of survival and resilience at sea. Written by Captain Joshua Slocum, this historical account details the harrowing shipwreck of the 'Liberdade...
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    20,95 €

  • The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner (Cram Edition)
    J. (John) Wilkinson
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner' plunges into the heart of the American Civil War, offering a thrilling first-hand account of naval adventures in the Confederate Navy. Written by John Wi...
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    23,14 €

  • The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (Cram Edition)
    J. D. Jerrold (James Douglas ... Kelley / Stanley Lane-Poole
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Story of the Barbary Corsairs pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Story of the Barbary Corsairs' recounts a gripping chapter in the history of the Mediterranean Sea, detailing the rise and fall of the Barbary pirates who dominated its waters for centur...
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    27,12 €

  • The Shellback’s Progress
    Walter Runciman Baron Runciman
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Shellback’s Progress pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Shellback’s Progress: In the Nineteenth Century' offers a compelling glimpse into the demanding world of nineteenth-century sailors and maritime history. Through vivid prose, Walter Runciman reco...
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    23,13 €


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