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Trade, Plunder and Settlement : Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630
Kenneth R. Andrews
Paperback - $138.95
Not since 1945 has a general account of the origins of the British Empire been published, as if the demise of the empire had freed us from our imperial past and historians from any obligation to digest it. Of course it has done nothing of the kind, b ...
Five Against the Sea
Ron Arias
Paperback - $41.95
It was January 19, 1988. The waters were calm and the skies cloudless as five fishermen set off on a week-long trip off the Costa Rican coast. Five days later, their twenty-nine-foot wooden craft was foundering against thirty-foot waves as a dreaded ...
From the Wheelhouse : Tugboaters Tell Their Own Stories
Doreen Armitage
Paperback - $45.95
Towboats have been a part of British Columbia's history since 1836, when the Hudson's Bay Company's ungainly sidewheeler "S.S. Beaver" made the first powered tow up the coast. Over the years, tugs and their crews have towed just about everything, inc ...
Real Caribbean Pirates : Rogues, Scoundrels, Heroes & Treasures
Dan Asfar
Paperback - $29.95
After the Spanish conquest of the Americas and word of the immense wealth flowing out of the New World reached Europe, high seas piracy became the scourge of ocean-going vessels. This bookincludes some of the exciting and villainous tales of these ad ...
Battles with the Sea
R. M. Ballantyne
Paperback - $27.95
Sometimes our gallant lifeboat-men when called into action go through a very different and not very comfortable experience. They neither gain a glorious victory nor achieve a partial success, but, after all their efforts, risks, and exposure, find th ...
Mysteries of the Ancient Seafarers : Ancient Maritime Civilzation
Robert D. Ballard
Hardcover - $57.95
In conjunction with the upcoming "National Geographic" television special for PBS, this beautiful volume featuring nearly 170 maps and photos follows the latest pursuits of "National Geographic" Explorer-in-Residence Robert D. Ballard as he searches ...
Mutiny! : The Real History of the H.M.S. Bounty
John D. Barrow
Paperback - $27.95
This remarkable and terrible story of the mutiny that became a landmark case in naval history and in the public consciousness.
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake 1577-1580
Samuel Bawlf
Hardcover - $46.95
The author presents a dramatic new theory about where Drake went in the four years when he disappeared in the North Pacific. 60 illustrations. 20 maps.
The British Seaborne Empire
Jeremy Black
Hardcover - $96.95
Sea-power made the British Empire what it was: without sea-power there would have been no empire, or at least no empire in the form it actually took. In this masterful analysis of the role of the sea in the history of the British Empire, Jeremy Black ...