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  • Five Years On The Erie Canal Five Years On The Erie Canal
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    Five Years On The Erie Canal

    ""Five Years On The Erie Canal"" is a book written by M. Eaton in 1845. It is an account of the author's experiences during his five years of labor on the Erie Canal. The book provides a detailed description of some of the most striking scenes and...
    $71.00

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    Reeds Eastern Almanac 2024

    The Reeds Eastern Almanac is the complete guide for North Sea mariners, offering ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format, covering the UK east coast from Ramsgate to Cape Wrath including the...
    $115.00

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  • Hawaii by Sextant Hawaii by Sextant
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    Hawaii by Sextant

    In the spirit of early Bowditch editions, we offer navigation details of a full ocean passage as an excellent way to learn the ropes of practical celestial navigation. With your own tables and plotting sheets, you can analyze 224 timed sextant sights of...
    $52.00

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  • Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation
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    Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation

    For the past 30 years, this book has been the authoritative source for all matters of small-boat navigation. Learn how to find and keep track of your position, adjust to changing conditions, and paddle the seas safely and confidently. Includes how to...
    $52.00

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  • Les Problèmes De Navigation Et La Carte Marine Les Problèmes De Navigation Et La Carte Marine
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    Les Problèmes De Navigation Et La Carte Marine

    Un guide pratique pour la navigation en mer, comprenant des instructions détaillées pour effectuer différents types de calculs et des tables complètes.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge...
    $37.00

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  • Rearview Mirror Rearview Mirror
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    Rearview Mirror

    Behind The Curtain: What Your Rideshare Driver Really Sees At Night Will Shock You!Imagine what it would be like to pick up a total stranger late at night, and have no idea where you are going until after he climbed into your back seat?For the first...
    $31.00

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  • Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry
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    Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry

    I am very pleased and privileged to write a short foreword for the monograph of Dean Driebe: Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry. Despite the technical title this book deals with a problem of fundamental importance. To...
    $227.00

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  • Crossing the Menai Strait Crossing the Menai Strait
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    Crossing the Menai Strait

    The village of Newborough has a rich history, which includes the ruins of a medieval princely residence and the shrine of the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine. In the 16th century it enjoyed a brief spell as the county town, a status which later...
    $21.00

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  • Biblioteca Maritima Espanola V2 Biblioteca Maritima Espanola V2
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    Biblioteca Maritima Espanola V2

    La Biblioteca Mar������tima Espa�����ola V2: Obra P������stuma (1852) es un libro escrito por Mart������n Fern�����ndez de Navarrete. Esta obra es la segunda parte de una serie de libros que recopilan informaci������n sobre la historia mar������tima de...
    $129.00

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  • Sea People
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    Sea People

    Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost...
    $25.00

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  • Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand
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    Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand

    The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he and the many canoes that followed find their way without modern navigational techniques through perilous seas...
    $34.00

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  • Nga Waka O Nehera Nga Waka O Nehera
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    Nga Waka O Nehera

    This is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand - including lists of the waka, names of crew members and vessels, karakia and waiata, and maps. A must for lovers of history, students of Maori and...
    $47.00

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  • MGRS Explained MGRS Explained
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    MGRS Explained

    The Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) is the standard use by all NATO military forces to locate any point on Earth down to one meter locations. This is called a "geocode" - a unique identifier for any location or object that is short and can be...
    $18.00

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  • Bunker Ship Operations Bunker Ship Operations
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    Bunker Ship Operations

    Merchant shipping remains the largest carrier of freight throughout recorded history due to the economic advantages involved. Optimum management of the global propulsion power may result in large cut down of marine fuel grades, which will in turn benefit...
    $29.00

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  • Introduction to Electronic Chart Navigation Introduction to Electronic Chart Navigation
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    Introduction to Electronic Chart Navigation

    There are two types of electronic charts: raster navigational charts (RNC) and electronic navigational charts (ENC). RNC are exact copies of paper charts and their use underway comes naturally to navigators accustomed to paper charts. All traditional...
    $83.00

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  • Starpath Celestial Navigation Work Forms Starpath Celestial Navigation Work Forms
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    Starpath Celestial Navigation Work Forms

    Starpath work forms for sight reduction procedures in celestial navigation have been used by tens of thousands of navigators for over forty years. Designed to make the sight reduction of all celestial bodies flow in the same logical procedure that...
    $23.00

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  • Wreck of the Carl D. Wreck of the Carl D.
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    Wreck of the Carl D.

    On November 18, 1958, a 623-foot limestone carrier-caught in one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan history-broke in two and sank in less than five minutes. Four of the 35-person crew escaped to a small raft, to which they clung in total...
    $46.00

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  • Secrets of the Viking Navigators Secrets of the Viking Navigators
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    Secrets of the Viking Navigators

    Most navigators have heard of Viking sunstones, but few realize they are more than legend. Leif Karlsen has brought them to life. He shows us how they work—now, and a thousand years ago—and what it was that led the Viking navigators to...
    $52.00

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  • Portney's Ponderables Portney's Ponderables
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    Portney's Ponderables

    "Navigation puzzles, controversies, historical problems, and other ponderables demystified by an expert navigator and writer. Joe Portney is a US Naval Academy graduate and Air Force navigator who has participated in three historic flights over the North...
    $18.00

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  • GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant
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    GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant

    No power, and batteries used up? This book and an inexpensive Mark 3 sextant lets you carry on. Alternatively, if you want to learn a basic celestial navigation position fix for any reason with minimum investment, this book shows how to do that...
    $31.00

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  • Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr
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    Navigation Workbook 18465 Tr

    This book provides over 500 exercises with answers covering all aspects of small-craft navigation. These are practical problems that all navigators should know how to solve. Topics include: Piloting , Chart reading and plotting , Voyage planning, Dead...
    $24.00

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  • Robert E. Peary at the North Pole Robert E. Peary at the North Pole
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    Robert E. Peary at the North Pole

    This book contains the definitive analysis of the navigation and achievement of the discovery of the North Pole by Robert Peary and Matthew Hensen in April of 1909. The report is the work of members of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Art of...
    $36.00

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  • Map Reading and Navigation Map Reading and Navigation
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    Map Reading and Navigation

    The purpose of this field manual is to provide a standardized source document for Armywide reference on map reading and land navigation. This manual applies to every soldier in the Army regardless of service branch, MOS, or rank. This manual also...
    $22.00

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  • Lehrbuch Der Navigation; Volume 1 Lehrbuch Der Navigation; Volume 1
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    Lehrbuch Der Navigation; Volume 1

    Dieses Lehrbuch ist eine Einführung in die Navigation auf See. Es enthält detaillierte Informationen über die Navigationstechnik, Navigationselektronik und die Navigation mit Hilfe von Sternen. Es richtet sich an angehende Seeleute sowie an alle, die...
    $67.00

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  • Navigation De Secours Navigation De Secours
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    Navigation De Secours

    Tous les navigateurs savent que les instruments peuvent tomber en panne. Les choses peuvent se mouiller, se casser ou passer par-dessus bord. Que vous soyez en sécurité sur votre bateau ou dérivant sur un radeau de sauvetage, David Burch vous montre...
    $57.00

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  • Boat Crew Seamanship Manual (COMDTINST M16114.5C) Boat Crew Seamanship Manual (COMDTINST M16114.5C)
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    Boat Crew Seamanship Manual (COMDTINST M16114.5C)

    The Boat Crew Seamanship Manual presents the approved methods and procedures for the conduct of Coast Guard boat operations. The Coast Guard Auxiliary, for the conduct of vessel facility operations, also uses this Manual. Fully illustrated throughout.
    $75.00

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  • Pilote Du Golfe Et Du Fleuve Saint-laurent... Pilote Du Golfe Et Du Fleuve Saint-laurent...
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    Pilote Du Golfe Et Du Fleuve Saint-laurent...

    Un guide essentiel pour les marins naviguant dans le Golfe et le Fleuve Saint-Laurent, qui offre une mine d'informations précieuses sur la géographie, la météo et les dangers à éviter.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...
    $62.00

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  • Lighthouses of Hampton Roads
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    Lighthouses of Hampton Roads

    For nearly two centuries, the beacons of light stations guided vessels through the deceptively hazardous waters in and around Hampton Roads. Eleven light stations have dotted the southeastern coast of Virginia since the days of the early republic...
    $68.00

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  • Asiatic Pilot Asiatic Pilot
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    Asiatic Pilot

    Originally published in 1916, this official guide to navigating the waters off the coast of China is an invaluable resource for sailors, fishermen, and anyone interested in the history and geography of the East Asian region. Featuring detailed maps and...
    $57.00

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  • The Western Pilot, Containing Charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi From the Mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, Accompanied With Directions for Navigating the Same, and a Gazetteer, or Description of the Town on Their Banks, Tri The Western Pilot, Containing Charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi From the Mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, Accompanied With Directions for Navigating the Same, and a Gazetteer, or Description of the Town on Their Banks, Tri
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    The Western Pilot, Containing Charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi From the Mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, Accompanied With Directions for Navigating the Same, and a Gazetteer, or Description of the Town on Their Banks, Tri

    This guidebook contains charts of the Ohio River and the Mississippi from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico. Accompanying the maps are directions for navigating the rivers and a gazetteer describing the towns along their banks.This work has...
    $53.00

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  • Sailing Directions for the North-American Pilot Sailing Directions for the North-American Pilot
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    Sailing Directions for the North-American Pilot

    An indispensable guide for mariners navigating the treacherous waters around eastern Canada. Provides detailed maps and descriptions of key landmarks, as well as up-to-date information on hazards and currents. Contains everything sailors need to know to...
    $53.00

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  • ENC Essentials ENC Essentials
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    ENC Essentials

    By the end of 2024, electronic navigational charts (ENC) are projected to be the only official NOAA charts, and all traditional paper charts will have been discontinued and NOAA is on schedule to remove the rest as announced. These charts are being...
    $37.00

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  • Navigation Workbook For Practice Underway Navigation Workbook For Practice Underway
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    Navigation Workbook For Practice Underway

    Add another dimension to your next day sail or cruise. This workbook makes it easy to add valuable training to almost any navigational observation. Even learn while at anchor. There are tons of interesting exercises to carry out just sitting in the...
    $24.00

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  • Radar Workbook Radar Workbook
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    Radar Workbook

    • For all radar users, recreational and professional.• Covers the use of radar for chart navigation, blind pilotage,and collision avoidance.This Workbook is designed to be used in classroom or online courses in radar, or for individual study outside of...
    $30.00

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  • Marc St. Hilaire Method Marc St. Hilaire Method
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    Marc St. Hilaire Method

    This book describes the Marc St Hilaire method for finding a ship's position at sea.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain...
    $32.00

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  • Navigation Intérieure Navigation Intérieure
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    Navigation Intérieure

    Navigation intérieure rivières et canaux est un guide pratique pour naviguer sur les rivières et les canaux intérieurs. Il aborde tous les aspects de la navigation, de la sécurité à la réglementation, en passant par la maintenance de l'équipement. Il est...
    $54.00

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  • The Navigation of The Pacific Ocean, China Seas, Etc The Navigation of The Pacific Ocean, China Seas, Etc
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    The Navigation of The Pacific Ocean, China Seas, Etc

    This guidebook provides practical guidance for navigating the Pacific Ocean and surrounding waters, including the China Seas. The author draws on his own experience as a navigator to offer insights and advice for sailors and ship captains alike.This work...
    $62.00

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