Maritime history

Major re-examination of issues of island identity and interaction with case studies from Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia covering a long time span and key cultural periods.

A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In August 1844 a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide to head into the unexplored vastness of central Australia.

The British Isles have a long, rich and celebrated seafaring history stretching from the earliest times through the victories of Drake and Nelson, the voyages of discovery of Cabot and Cook and the defence of the realm by vessels of all types in the present century.

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

From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency.

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Observer, Economist, Guardian, BBC History Magazine, i-paper, Novara Media and History Today'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel.

The concept was simple, to link American railroads and global dominance of the seas with a railroad line through China and Russia, enter the back door of Europe, and create new royalty: the Transportation Kings.

The loss of the Costa Concordia in 2012 shocked Europe when thirty-two passengers died on a luxury liner.

Flotilla 13 is the elite naval commando unit of the Israeli Defense Forces that specializes in maritime hostage rescue and counter-terrorist missions.

In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields.

Dramatic, compelling, downright unbelievable accounts of the Coast Guard's often unsung heros.

The 2003 edition of The Naval Miscellany illuminates almost every aspect of naval life.

Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery of the Southern Continent.

A revised edition of the First Edition Edited by Charles T.

In 1816, a fleet of ships left France to accept the British hand-over of the port of Saint-Louis in Senegal.

The incredible story of the "e;King of the Pirates,"e; who burst from the waters of early Canada to become a terror of the seas.

On 28th April 1789 a small and unremarkable merchant vessel became one of the most famous ships in maritime history.

In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution.

Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of vital importance to the growth of England as a European power.

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The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance the study of maritime connectivity.

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Sir James Somerville (1882-1949) was one of the great influences on the 20th-century navy, both as a commander of fleets and a pioneer of radio and radar.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

The years leading to World War I were the 'Age of the Dreadnought'.

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

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The greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century.

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.

Journals, narratives, and descriptions relating to British colonization in the islands of St Christopher, Nevis, Barbados, Tobago and Trinidad, and in Guiana, the voyage of Sir Henry Coltand, and to Admiral de Ruyter's raid in the West Indies, 1664-5.

Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L.

A maritime archeologist recounts twenty years of remarkable discoveries and adventures both in and under the waters of South Carolina.

This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, television series, opera, anime and games.

Agents of Innovation examines the influence of the General Board of the Navy as agents of innovation during the period between World Wars I and II.

This book thoroughly explores and analyses naval policy during the period of austerity that followed the First World War.

Über die Jahrhunderte haben die Meere unzählige Geheimnisse verborgen – und die Geschichten über vergrabene Schätze und legendäre Piraten haben die Fantasie der Menschen beflügelt.

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

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.

The period of the "e;second slavery"e; was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age.

The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines.

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Translated from the Original Arabic and Edited, with Notes, Appendices, and an Introduction, continuing the History down to 1870.

Containing the translated Books I-V of the Suma Oriental: An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515, and The Book of Francisco Rodrigues, Rutter of a Voyage in the Red Sea, Nautical Rules, Almanack and Maps, Written and Drawn in the East before 1515.

Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer.

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

Leadership under pressure: the personal account of the commander of the Royal Naval Task Group deployed to Libya in 2011.

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.