Maritime history

Martin Stauber, ein nicht minder begabter Freund des Astronomen und Mathematikers Johannes Kepler, ist von frühester Jugend von allem Lebendigen fasziniert.

Die ESTONIA: 25 Jahre nach dem Untergang - neue Beweise, neue ErkenntnisseEs war die größte zivile Schifffahrtskatastrophe nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Am 28.

Hundert Jahre Untergang der TitanicKeine Phantasie reicht an die schaurige Wahrheit heran, wie und warum am 15.

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.

On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the assassination of the Romanovs, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying 17 members of the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual exile.

When the 236-metre long container ship Rena ploughed into and was impaled upon the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga at 2.

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Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea.

'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea.

In this revelatory book, Callum Roberts uses his lifetime's experience working with the oceans to show why they are the most mysterious places on earth, their depths still largely unexplored.

Shipwrecks have captured our imagination for centuries.

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.

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

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014 Discover the story of a real-life Captain Ahab of the slave trade, in a landmark book by one of today's most original and highly acclaimed historians One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Spanish slaver.

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A rollicking tour of the history of the high seas with Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, 'Calico Jack' Rackham, Anne Bonney and other figures of maritime legend.

The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves.

Sunken treasure, cannibalism, prison ships, Nazi submarines, the Bermuda triangleall are tied into the lore of shipwrecks along Florida's coasts.

The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters is an exciting collection of first-hand stories describing the catastrophe of Titanics maiden voyage as told by its survivors shortly after the ship sank.

The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan.

With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners.

From the corsairs of the Barbary Coast to Blackbeard to Jean Lafitte, pirates have been a part of every culture for centuries.

Blackbeard, Jose Gaspar, Jean Lafittethe names conjure up a romantic, swashbuckling figure with a black patch over one eye, a cutlass in his teeth, and a brace of pistols tucked into his waistband.

Over the centuriesfrom 18th-century Spanish galleons through German U-boats and modern oil tankersseamen have feared the waters off North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Esquemeling served the Buccaneers as a barber-surgeon, and was present for all their exploits.

In the summer of 1881, Lt.

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.

Sea stories are, plainly and simply, wonderful springboards for vicarious adventure.

The ocean is one of the few untamed places on earthunpredictable and unsympathetic to the lives lost there.

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.

2025 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Gold Medal-winner2025 American Book Fest Best Book Award FinalistA breakneck adventure of war, romance, and politics in the golden age of piracy.

Balleneros, loberos y guaneros en Patagonia y Malvinas es una investigación original y pionera sobre historia ambiental e introducción de especies biológicas en el mar patagónico, costas e islas como causa de la navegación.

'A wonderfully quirky history' SUNDAY TIMES'The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Quippy anecdotes are woven with historical reference and geographical context to give full colour' IRISH TIMESA bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel - 21 miles wide at its narrowest point - represents much more than a conductor of goods and people.

A mediados del siglo XVI, Europa sufrió la mayor amenaza de su historia: el avance del imperio turco islámico.

DON'T MISS THE MAJOR FILM INSPIRED BY CHASE'S NARRATIVE, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA On 20 November 1820, just south of the equator, the whaling ship Essex, spotted and pursued a shoal of sperm whales.

Bestselling author James Nelson brings us another gripping and absorbing maritime adventure.

Attention all Shipping Forecast fans.

Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside.

El viejo nombre de Trafalgar, «la punta de occidente», sigue resonando hoy en día más allá de las cartas náuticas, topónimo impreso en la memoria colectiva de tres naciones europeas merced al encarnizado combate que allí tuvo lugar el 21 de octubre de 1805 entre las escuadras francoespañola y británica.

A riveting tale of Dutch polar explorer William Barents and his three harrowing Arctic expeditions the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Ultimate Adventure Collection: Complete Novels, History of the Pirates, Military Biographies and more (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Novels:Robinson CrusoeThe Farther Adventures of Robinson CrusoeCaptain SingletonMemoirs of a CavalierColonel JackMoll FlandersRoxana: The Fortunate MistressThe Consolidator: Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the MoonHistorical Works:A General History of the PyratesThe History of the PyratesThe King of PiratesThe Pirate GowThe History of the Remarkable Life of John SheppardThe Life of Mr.

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.

An anthology of personal experience selected and edited by John Winton.

In Battle at Sea, Sir John Keegan applies to maritime warfare the technique that he put to such brilliant effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle.

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.

After Joe Gould's Secret - 'a miniature masterpiece of a shaggy dog story' (Observer) - here is another collection of stories by Joseph Mitchell, each connected in one way or another with the waterfront of New York City.

Pronto una gran película de Christopher Nolan.

HUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes.