Maritime History
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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Roger CrowleyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking s...
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Max HastingsCurrent price €28.79Original price €29.99The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...
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Pirates: Truth and Tales
Helen HollickCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The historian R. H. Tawney famously wrote, The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp. The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps...
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On a Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic
Bill WormstedtCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided ...
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Max HastingsCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...
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The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
Nigel CliffCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening...
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Nelson''s Arctic Voyage: The Royal Navys first polar expedition 1773
Peter GoodwinCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50In the summer of 1773 the 14-year old Horatio Nelson took part in an expedition to the Arctic, which came close to ending his naval career before i...
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
David AbulafiaCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEARFor most of human histo...
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Elliott & Thompson LimitedCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Captained by English nobleman-turned-pirate Joseph Bannister, the Golden Fleece was a pirate ship sunk by the Royal Navy in 1686 taking with it man...
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Crusoe''''s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness
Andrew LambertCurrent price €12.37Original price €14.55Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe''''s classic novel about the adve...
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Haunted Queen of the Seas: The Living Legend of the RMS Queen Mary
Nicole StricklandCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99Current price €15.65Original price €17.99Save 13% -
The Chronicler of China: Juan González de Mendoza, between Mission, Empire and History (Sixteenth- to Seventeenth Centuries)
Diego SolaCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 15...
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Deep Water: the world in the ocean
James BradleyCurrent price €25.37Original price €28.50Wise, compassionate, and urgent. Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland A Bookseller Nonfiction Editors Choice for March 2024 Plunge into the depth...
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A Seaman''s Pocketbook: June 1943, by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty
Brian LaveryCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99At the height of the Second World War this small pocket-book was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy. In straight period prose i...
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
Angela C. SuttonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. There was no way to predict just how mon...
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In Fingal''s Wake: A Tender Tribute
Ann PalmerCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Fingal represented the last and final classic style of tender once found throughout the three General Lighthouse Authorities of the British Isles. ...
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The European World 15001800: An Introduction to Early Modern History
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99The European World 15001800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It p...
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The Fight for Tom Cod: Newfoundland in the American Revolution
Geoff BentonCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Current price €15.75Original price €17.50Save 10% -
Windrush: A Ship Through Time
Paul ArnottCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Hamburg, 1930: The German-Jewish shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser that they christen the Monte Rosa.Norway, 1940: ...
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Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty''s Enigmatic Voyage
Alan FrostCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99In 1789, as the Bounty made its return voyage through the western Pacific Ocean, disgruntled crewmen seized control from their captain, William Bli...
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Fishermen, the Fishing Industry and the Great War at Sea: A Forgotten History?
Robb RobinsonCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focussed on capital ships, Jutl...
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The Evolution and Significance of the Powered Bulk Carrier: The Black Freighters
Roy FentonCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99The book is the first to detail the 170-year evolution of the powered bulk carriers which continue to have a major role in the worlds trades and ec...
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Roman Law and Maritime Commerce
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roma...
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