Maritime history

Perfect for maritime historians and fans of Poldark, a look at the true history behind the legends built around smugglers.

Perfect for maritime historians and fans of Poldark, a look at the true history behind the legends built around smugglers.

A military historian's enlightening reassessment of the famous 16th century naval battle between the Ottoman Empire and Pope Pius V's Holy League.

A historian examines a disastrous, Victorian-era expedition in the Canadian Arctic, a shocking revelation, and the celebrity fallout that followed.

"e;Fascinating"e; stories of real-life people and events that inspired the author of the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe (Historical Novel Society).

The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.

The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised"e;Will surely become the definitive account.

This book presents the socio-cultural and historical trajectories of the Deccan plateau as well as the coastal areas of the current states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa.

This book presents the socio-cultural and historical trajectories of the Deccan plateau as well as the coastal areas of the current states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa.

Explores the history of the US Navy's 11 new steel warships, built during the late 19th century to advance American naval supremacy.

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.

In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy.

An epic shipwreck tale.

Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records.

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic.

Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records.

British Honduras (1951) examines this most neglected of the British colonies, from the early days of settlement by the logwood-cutters and buccaneers up to the post-war period.

British Honduras (1951) examines this most neglected of the British colonies, from the early days of settlement by the logwood-cutters and buccaneers up to the post-war period.

After the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912, the story hit the headlines worldwide.

Organized by days of the year, this reference presents detailed information on the HMS Titanic, from the ship itself to passengers, crew, and survivors.

Un viaje al reino de los maresEl mar es fascinante y misterioso a partes iguales, y Alessandro Vanoli nos guía en el apasionante relato de cuatro mil millones de años de historia para, tras navegar entre criaturas, abismos y civilizaciones, llegar a los mares del presente.

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences.

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences.

Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet.

The Royal Navy that Brian Bethen Schofield joined at the beginning of the Twentieth Century truly ruled the waves.

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space.

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* The beauty ofThe Wagerunfurls like a great sail.

Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was once a deep and enduring presence in popular culture.

Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941.

The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812.

A World War II merchant seaman, John Bunker takes a thorough look at the American merchant marines' significant contributions to the war effort.

When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L.

In the sailing era, the warships called First Rates were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct, maintain, and operate.

The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair.

This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, television series, opera, anime and games.

The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive.

Scotland's maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain's development both as an empire and as the world's leading maritime power in the nineteenth century.

It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates.

Two of mankind's most persistent quests';get rich quick' and ';something for nothing'provide the power driving these tales of treasure-seekers in action.

Sea stories are, plainly and simply, wonderful springboards for vicarious adventure.

The concept was simple, to link American railroads and global dominance of the seas with a railroad line through China and Russia, enter the back door of Europe, and create new royalty: the Transportation Kings.

"e;In his lively, vivid history of pirates, Lehr finds some striking continuities from ancient to modern times.

A vivid and revealing portrait of shipboard life as experienced by eighteenth-century migrants from Europe to the New World In October 1735, James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition set sail from London, bound for Georgia.

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions.

For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter; a decisive fleet action would be fought.

The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked.

The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised"e;Will surely become the definitive account.

China's maritime "e;gray zone"e; operations represent a new challenge for the U.