Maritime history

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AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.

Pirates have an almost mythical status in the public imagination - we think of rogue heroes riding the high seasand 'X marks the spot'.

It was early in December that H.

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

Aus Abenteuerlust zieht es den jungen englischen Kaufmannssohn Robinson Crusoe hinaus auf die Weltmeere.

Melvilles »Moby Dick« gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Seefahrer-Romane der Weltliteratur und ist auch nach über 160 Jahren immer noch spannend zu lesen.

Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly.

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.

Clarence Henry Haring's 'The Pirates of the West Indies in the 17th Century' provides an in-depth look at the lives and exploits of pirates in the Caribbean during this tumultuous period.

Este ebook presenta "Moby Dick", con un índice dinámico y detallado.

Das Buch 'Das Naturforscherschiff' von Sophie Wörishöffer entführt den Leser in die aufregende Welt der Naturforschung und Abenteuer auf hoher See.

In 'Die Réfugiés' von Arthur Conan Doyle werden die Leser in das Frankreich des 18.

Dieses eBook: "Das Schiff ohne Steuer (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

In 'The Pirates Own Book' by Charles Ellms, readers are treated to a comprehensive collection of accounts, anecdotes, and adventures from the world of piracy.

James Fenimore Coopers roman 'England' ist eine faszinierende Erzählung über die politischen und sozialen Veränderungen im England des 18.

In 'Die Hallig' von Johann Christoph Biernatzki wird die Geschichte eines jungen Fischers erzählt, der auf einer einsamen Hallig lebt.

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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.

In Jules Verne's 'The Mysterious Island,' readers are transported to a remote island where a group of castaways must use their ingenuity and skills to survive and thrive.

"e;Naval history enthusiasts and military historians who enjoy taking deeper dives into the backgrounds of well-known battles, particularly concerning tactics and leadership, will appreciate this read.

Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s.

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A major reconsideration of the role of the American West in the causes, military conduct, and consequences of the Civil War.

This work aims to constitute an objective analysis of a German World War I naval combat commander within his proper context, by closely defining both the military-technical and military-political milieux in which Franz Hipper operated.

Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

A single decision can haunt a lifetime.

In the early hours of 15 May 1982, three Sea King helicopters carrying 42 men of 22 SAS Regiment and attachments, lifted off from the carrier HMS Hermes and headed towards the remote Pebble Island on the north coast of West Falkland.

This detailed biography brings to life one of the greatest military heroes of WWII-and demonstrates why his contributions were crucial to Allied victory.

The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in one of the most rapid periods of warship development in history; and only ten years after this all-big-gun, turbine-powered battleship was completed, two entire fleets of Dreadnoughts would meet at Jutland and put the work of the prewar designers to the ultimate test.

"e;[Sledge] rightfully celebrates and affirms the southern sea's enriching past and gives readers reason to want for its wholesome and meaningful future.

Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe.

HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War.

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A 1960s German perspective of the World War II battle in Libya and how the Allied and Axis commanders shaped the course of the action.

Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Archive.

While there is a perennial interest in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars and in Nelson himself, there is no reference work that chronicles all the captains of his ships, their social origins, their characters and the achievements in their lives beyond their service under Nelson.

On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast.

France declared war upon the British in 1793.

The history of shipwrecks involves many shocking episodes: from men who saw shipmates eaten by sharks, to castaways who ate each other.

The Royal Navy that Brian Bethen Schofield joined at the beginning of the Twentieth Century truly ruled the waves.

Philip Reed, best known for his superb models of ships from the age of sail, here turns his attention to the other highly popular subject for ship modelers - the warships of the Second World War.

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Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Archive.

From the time of the Restoration of Charles II, when he returned to England from Breda and was presented with the yacht Mary by the burgomaster of Amsterdam, Royal yachts began to be defined as such in England and built with that special purpose in mind.

The history of shipwrecks involves many shocking episodes: from men who saw shipmates eaten by sharks, to castaways who ate each other.

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