Maritime history

The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13.

Bringing together thirty years' work on arctic whaling, Ross's invaluable text supplements Margaret Penny's journal to present a complete picture not only of this particular expedition but of arctic whaling in general.

From sewn planked boats in Early Dynastic Egypt to Late Roman wrecks in Italy, and the design of Venetian Merchant Galleys, this huge volume gathers together fifty-three papers presenting new research on the archaeology and history of ancient ships and shipbuilding traditions.

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The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile.

The 10th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology was held in Roskilde, Denmark in 2003.

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an ';important' (The Wall Street Journal) and ';penetrating historical and political study' (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan's The Revenge of Geography.

Concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru.

A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century.

The Royal Navy's operations in World War II started on 3 September 1939 and continued until the surrender of Japan in August 1945 - there was no 'phoney war' at sea.

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

Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron raced the Cunard liner Carpathia to the scene of the sinking, rescued the seven hundred survivors of the world's most famous shipwreck and then carried them to safety at New York.

From the Spanish text, published at Cuenca, 1627.

Various translators, especially Edward Bullough and N.

Instructions, minutes, despatches, and other documents from Spanish and English archives, relating to exploration of the East Indies, translated into English and compiled, with notes and an introduction.

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Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twin in every way.

"e;This is an interesting and informative book about a shipbuilding process that might be considered routine.

In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere.

Translated and Edited, with Notes, an Introduction and Appendices.

A major new interpretation of the Zheng family of merchants and militarists, who dominated the seventeenth-century China Seas.

A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat-it helped to make an empire.

Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775-1815 is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defence infrastructure of the Napoleonic War.

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce.

Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the historical context to enable this further research, Modern Naval History is a key historiographical guide for students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of naval history and its contemporary relevance.

Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Operation Desecrate 1 - the raid undertaken to destroy Japanese ships and aircraft in the lagoons of Palau.

Between 2007 and 2012 the Department for Underwater Archaeology of the Croatian Conservation Institute from Zagreb and the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice collaborated in the recording, underwater excavation and analysis of the unusually well-preserved wreck of a 16th century Venetian merchantman in the Svetti Pavao shallow off the southern shore of the island of Mljet, Croatia.

HUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes.

En août 1897, le jeune commandant belge Adrien de Gerlache a voulu être le premier à atteindre le pôle Sud magnétique.

A view of pirate life-from the crow's nest .

World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack.

Edited, with notes and an introduction from narratives and journals by John Gatonbe, Robert Fotherby, and others, with Baffin's letters, journals, and other observations, and various treatises on the probability of a North-West Passage.

This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

For over 40 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships.

A review of underwater archaeology offering a clear exposition of new developments in undersea technologies.

Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / HistoryThe plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurdur Einarsdttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863.

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Nach der dramatischen Eroberung Konstantinopels im Jahr 1204 durch die Kreuzfahrer des vierten Kreuzzugs lag das einst mächtige Byzantinische Reich in Trümmern.

Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019Nusantaria often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub.

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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr is an 18 volume set that contains the complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land.

Pritchard's chief concern is to explain why Bourbon France, the richest and most poewerful state in Europe in the middle of the eighteenth century, failed to exercise its power at sea.

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.

Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them.

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Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of 60 of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories.

The Beagle has become synonymous with Charles Darwin and his groundbreaking title On the Origin of Species.

Book I of Cieza's chronicle, translated, with an introduction.