Maritime history

The volume covers the voyages of 1579-1589, translated and edited, with notes and an introduction.

Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur is America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones.

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Former Classic Boat editor Nic Compton has spent over 20 years sailing and photographing classic yachts, and this is the culmination of his decades-long passion - a stunning collection showcasing the 20 most beautiful and fascinating classic boats still sailing today.

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating!

For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions.

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For centuries, the Dutch landscape and her inhabitants have been connected to the water, sometimes lovingly, sometimes full of fear and often with awe.

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

An annual publication featuring the latest research on the history, development and service of the world's warships.

What was it like to live and work at a lighthouse during the heyday of shipping and fishing?

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

With thousands of islands adrift in cerulean waters and a long, labyrinthine coastline, Greeks have always traveled liquid highways.

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Known to seafarers as the Devils Jaw, Point Honda has lured ships to its dangerous rocks on Californias coast for centuries, but its worst disaster occurred on 8 September 1923.

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Can you escape the sinking Titanic?

A Scientific, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour: John Lee In England, Wales and Ireland, 1806-7, is a critical edition of the travel diaries and sketchbooks of Dr John Lee FRS (ne Fiott, 1783-1866), published for the first time.

Monaco – ein kleines Fürstentum, das heute für Luxus und Glamour steht, birgt eine Geschichte, die weit über die schillernden Fassaden hinausgeht.

Composed in the form of letters and first published in 1698.

Tasked with destroying as many British merchant ships as possible, German aristocrat Felix von Luckner and his ship the Seeadler succeeded in spectacular fashion.

When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime power as a threat to British maritime security?

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1948.

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This title features up-to-date historical and archaeological research into the mysterious and powerful confederations of raiders who troubled the Eastern Mediterranean in the last half of the Bronze Age.

Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast-the fastest craft on the water during World War II-and Dick Keresey's account of these tough little fighters throws new light on their contributions to the war effort.

This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions.

Edited from Contemporary Records.

The America's Cup has always been a hotbed of unbridled ambition, personal agendas, intrigue, spying and, more recently, hardfought court cases and that's before the boats even get out on the water to race.

An updated and expanded edition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of this iconic ship.

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century.

A highly illustrated history of the US Navy's nuclear submarine program, from the postwar years to the 2020 Columbia-class SSBNs.

The paddle steamer holds a unique place in the history of maritime engineering.

More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree.

Book III (1543-44) of Cieza's 'Civil Wars of Peru', translated and edited.

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

This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia.

In a stretch of the North Atlantic known as the Black Pit, far from land-based air cover, escorted convoys travelling the main trade routes between Newfoundland and Ireland were regularly besieged by marauding U-boats in classical naval confrontations.

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys, two of whom represented important Christian daimyo in western Japan, to Europe.

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Did you ever wonder which civilisation first took to water in small craft?

British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston has enjoyed a rakish reputation as a womanizer, a careless aristocrat and the apostle of big-stick diplomacy.

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