Maritime history

Die Expansion der schwedischen Schifffahrt um 1650 wäre ohne niederländischer Beteiligung undenkbar gewesen.

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A fascinating and detailed exploration of one of the most famous warships of the Ancient world - the trireme - and its tactical employment by the opposing sides in the 5th-century BC Graeco-Persian Wars.

With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea.

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During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants' sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friars to venture far beyond Europe's cultural frontiers to spread their Christian faith into the farthest reaches of Asia.

The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine.

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

Over 100 deep-ly difficult and fin-tastically fun puzzles curated by the National Maritime Museum: the ultimate gift for all seafarers!

Translated from the Spanish, with Notes and a Preface, and a Letter from Luis Vaez de Torres describing his Voyage through the Torres Straits.

The age of maritime expansion and the Anglo-Spanish War have been analyzed by generations of historians, but nearly all studies have emphasized events and participants at the top.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Three and a half millennia of British Maritime history, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early 20th century .

This is the first of several volumes on the exploration of the Niger following its discovery by Mingo Park.

In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the challenge with initiative and determination.

New naval history of the First World War which reveals the contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory.

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

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This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative.

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

This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.

This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.

In 1925, Lewis R Freeman became a correspondent for the United States Navy Fleet, living and working among them.

In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals.

Lifeboats occupy a particular place in people's hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea.

In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail but ran aground off the desolate West African coast.

A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.

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Translated, for the First Time, with Notes, a Preface, and an Introductory Life of Timour Beg.

From the Spanish text, published at Cuenca, 1627.

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes-an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan-grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world.

Die Nordwestpassage – ein mythischer Seeweg, der Jahrhunderte lang die kühnsten Entdecker der Welt in seinen Bann zog.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy' TELEGRAPH'This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you're reading about a dream or a nightmare.

An empirical analysis of the global ocean''s most contested maritime territory, the South China Sea and its agents of contest.

On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable.

The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in Naval Engagements, looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings.

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Captains of whaling vessels were experienced navigators of northern waters, and William Penny was in the vanguard of the whaling fraternity.

Imperial steam explores the early history of steamship travel to Britain's imperial East.

Bestselling author James Nelson brings us another maritime adventure packed with battle, duty, heroism and tragedy.

Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years.

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.

Jack Tar''s Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic.