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  • Maritime Animals Maritime Animals
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    Maritime Animals

    This volume explores nonhuman animals' involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail-as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship...
    $286.46

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    Beneath Dark Waters
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    Beneath Dark Waters

    The poignant and very human drama of a 1914 maritime disaster that claimed the lives of more passengers than the Titanic. On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to...
    RRP: $42.99
    $38.00

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  • Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System
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    Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System

    Villamar examines the role of Portuguese merchants in the formation of the Manila Galleon as a system of trade founded at the end of the sixteenth century. Surveying the Portuguese commercial networks from the 'Estado da Índia' across the 'Spanish lake,'...
    $110.48

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    Raiders And Rebels

    “A dramatic tale. . . . Sherry brings the pirates vividly to life with his rousing telling of their daring cruises and outrageous feats. . . . I heartily recommend Raiders and Rebels to anyone who enjoys history, a tale of high adventure, the drama of...
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  • Two Voyages Two Voyages
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    Two Voyages

    New Zealand was the last major habitable land on Earth to be populated.Many associate the discovery of New Zealand with James Cook, but he was not the first to venture to this isolated part of the Earth.When James Cook landed in New Zealand in July 1769...
    $43.20

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    Misadventures in Nature's Paradise
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    Misadventures in Nature's Paradise

    The book provides a pre-settlement historical account of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in their Indian Ocean context. The project began as a search for clues to locations of two 18th century Dutch shipwrecks, and was expanded into a...
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    Wonders in the Deep
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    Wonders in the Deep

    An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past.A shipwreck is a time capsule. When a maritime archaeologist picks up an item from the seabed, there is a direct connection with history...
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    Sailing the Graveyard Sea
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    Sailing the Graveyard Sea

    A “compelling” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives—part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and...
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    Pacific Voyages
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    Pacific Voyages

    "Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller's] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms and in cities are luminous."-Pacific YachtingIn...
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  • Never Say P*g
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    Never Say P*g

    The nautical reference book you never knew you needed: a compendium of all superstitions maritime and marine. Learn your A-B-Seas of sailors' guiding magic and mythos - and why you should never stir your tea with a knife, lest you invite trouble and...
    $30.00

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  • Torn in Two
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    Torn in Two

    A compelling tale of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history and of amazing survival against all odds-now in paperback.Michael Schumacher recreates the circumstances surrounding the terrible storm of November 1966 that broke the mighty...
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    Rise of the Cajun Mariners
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    Rise of the Cajun Mariners

    The story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires.Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history-the beginnings of what is now the global, multibillion-dollar marine oil...
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  • Distant Shores
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    Distant Shores

    A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it. China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the...
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  • In Asian Waters
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    In Asian Waters

    In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive...
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