Jahrhundertelang träumten europäische Seefahrer vergeblich von einer Ostroute durchs sibirische Eismeer: Willem Barents und Vitus Bering erlagen nach ihren »Entdeckungen« Spitzbergens und der Beringstraße den Strapazen ihrer Expeditionen, und selbst der erfolgsverwöhnte James Cook scheiterte an der Suche nach dem östlichen Ausgang aus den Eismassen.
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This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Captain Charles Johnson)Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy (Howard Pyle)The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates (Ralph D.
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In 'The Pirate Island & A Pirate of the Caribbees', Harry Collingwood takes the reader on a thrilling journey filled with adventure, danger, and hidden treasures.
This book contains the authentic narratives of the lives, exploits and executions of the world's most infamous buccaneers including contemporary eyewitness accounts, documents, trial transcripts and letters.
A ';compelling' (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navya little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their livespart murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O'Brian.
Desde los aportes de los debates historiográficos europeos de los años cincuenta y el giro humanista en las ciencias sociales, se considera un conjunto de categorías de unos transdisciplinar, como la representación y la alteridad, entre otras, que permiten dilucidar las posibilidades epistémicas de un sujeto propio de la historia marítima, de gran utilidad a los estudios sobre la América colonia.
En el primer libro de la colección se compilan una serie de artículos que abordan, desde distintas perspectivas, algunos de los enigmas que aquella geografía especulativa planteó a los expedicionarios, que buscaron resolverlos con sus sorprendentes viajes, en los que se conjugaban los intereses, ambiciones, ilusiones, imaginarios, mentiras y conocimientos que con tanto cuidado luego fueron registrados en los maravillosos mapas producidos a partir del siglo XVI.
The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government.
En 1846 el joven abogado Antonio García Reyes publicó su Memoria sobre la Primera Escuadra Nacional, un libro breve a la vez que abarcador, ya que va más allá de su título.
En 1891 estalló una violenta Guerra Civil en Chile producto de diferencias irreconciliables entre el Presidente Balmaceda y el Congreso Nacional, generándose uno de los conflictos más debatidos por los historiadores.
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.
In this centennial edition of the definitive book on the Titanic, new findings, photos, and interviews shed light on the worlds most famous marine disaster for the 100th anniversary of the Titanics sinking.
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.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* The beauty ofThe Wagerunfurls like a great sail.
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.
This engaging overview of Maine's maritime history ranges from early Native American travel and fishing to pre-Plymouth European settlements, wars, international trade, shipbuilding, boom-and-bust fisheries, immigrant quarrymen, quick-lime production, yachting, and modern port facilities, all unfolding against one of the most dramatic seascapes on the planet.
WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.
This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
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