Maritime history

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME FOUNDATION AWARD FOR BEST BOOK 2024A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain - and decided the course of its history - for thousands of years.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME FOUNDATION AWARD FOR BEST BOOK 2024A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain - and decided the course of its history - for thousands of years.

Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world - Adrian Flanagan.

This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian.

A facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island.

Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world - Adrian Flanagan.

In the summer of 1881, Lt.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des 10.

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.

In this centennial edition of the definitive book on the Titanic, new findings, photos, and interviews shed light on the world's most famous marine disaster for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking.

The Alligator was an amphibious machine designed and patented in Canada in the late 1880s.

This commemorative volume produced on the occasion of the centennial of the Canadian Navy, 1910-2010, records a special kind of dual citizenship: Canadians exercising the profession of the sea in their nation's service, while also living out the demands of their civilian occupations in their home communities.

Winner for the 2010 SOS Marine Heritage Award The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes.

This is the story of six of Canadas Warships HMCS NAPANEE, HMCS BELLEVILLE, HMCS HALLOWELL, HMCS TRENTONIAN, HMCS QUINTE (I), and the HMCS QUINTE (II).

Under Canadian Pacific's red-and-white-checkered flag, the company's founders, George Stephen and William C.

The Frances Smith was not only the first steamboat to be built in Owen Sound, but also the largest vessel on Georgian Bay at that time.

This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations.

The acclaimed first novel by one of Harper Perennial's most gifted young writers, author of 'The Bronski House' and 'The Spirit Wrestlers'.

An epic social history of steamship travel from the 19th-century to the 'Lusitania', the 'Mauretania' and the 'Titanic'.

Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony's 400th anniversary in 2007.

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of 'Moby Dick: Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'.

A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has been taking place in Norfolk and the Fenlands over the last twenty years, and in which the author has played a central role.

This edition does not include illustrations.

An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last 'grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.

Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn't even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three hundred years.

Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn't even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three hundred years.

In 1911 Roald Amundsen beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole, and Scott and his colleagues all died on the return journey.

For 1930s Britain, the Queen Mary was a symbol of hope.

The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon.

On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen: two fleets of dreadnoughts gigantic 'castles of steel' able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away were ready to test their terrible power against each other.

In 1911 Roald Amundsen beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole, and Scott and his colleagues all died on the return journey.

Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail.

From colonial disputes, secret treaties with former foes, high-wire diplomacy, and tit-for-tat building of the terrifyingly powerful dreadnought battleships.

With over six thousand miles of rugged coastline, nowhere in Scotland is more than forty-five miles from tidal waters, and seven of the biggest towns and cities are seaports.

'A rare gift .

';A fascinating, fast-paced historyfull of remarkable characters and incredible stories' about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Awardwinning author of In the Heart of the Sea).

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.

For 1930s Britain, the Queen Mary was a symbol of hope.