Maritime History

Richard Gebhart traces little-known voyages of Great Lakes ships that sailed the Atlantic beginning in the 1850s. They bore cargoes to and from the...

'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday TelegraphWhen Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental c...

'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye ...

An evocative and exciting collection of rare and unusual images of the vessel known as the ship beautiful. Shipping Today and YesterdayRMS Aquitan...

RMS Majestics history was shaped by war. Built in Germany for Albert Ballins HAPAG, she was launched just before the start of the First World War a...

The sturdy Fokker C.XIw was designed and built for service in the Royal Netherlands Navy. Development started in early 1934. The biplane scout was ...

Liverpool is a cosmopolitan city populated by people and communities from all over the world. One of the least known components is the Greek commun...

Uses rare surviving records, including fully intact logbooks, to situate the customs-enforcement interceptor Sultana within the wider picture of th...

A gorgeous, sweeping epic ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose'WASHINGTON POST One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY S...

The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, b...

The Laws of all Nations define & declare a Pirate to be an Enemy of Mankind He is perhaps the only Criminal on Earth, whose crime cannot be a...

Traces the impact of world events on St Helena's topography, ecology and human population, from the early 1500s to the present day. Since its disc...

Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous strategic chall...

Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous strategic chall...

When is a boat not a ship? Was Captain Kidd truly a pirate? What was the deadliest disaster at sea? Is the Bermuda Triangle dangerous? Are mermaids...

Can you escape the sinking Titanic? Make your way up the decks with this exhilarating adventure puzzle book.     This exciting escape book is a bus...

One Firm Anchor uncovers nineteen centuries of contact between the churches and the seafarer. This extensive introductory history goes beyond anyth...

The remarkable 200-year history of The RNLI and their invaluable role in British Maritime history. A beautiful book of kindness, courage, and commu...

The military operations of Scandinavian societies in the Viking Age depended on their ships. Different types of ships were used in order to transpo...

The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. Resting in its depths lie the lost ships of war, spanning the totality of human history. Many wrecks a...

This is an unusual maritime story in that the author looks at life from the lower echelons of a merchant ship's company and the relationship betwee...

A detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy's greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impact The greatest controversy in...

Both the Christian Bible and Aristotles works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern E...

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-li...

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-li...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated ...

The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region...

Serving on the Big Ships: Life on the Liners looks at passenger ship history from the perspective of recollections, impressions, and anecdotes of t...

How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 600 miles to save 7000 gallons of rum By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasWhen, in 1796...

This new book covers the Austro-Italian Naval War 1866 a little-known part of late 19th C naval history. The Battle of Lissa took place on 20 July...

Following successive international legal verdicts, Bangladesh is now an accredited maritime state. Possessing a spacious territorial sea and an ext...

The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region...

New details about the founding of Chinas Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategy From 1949 to 1950, the Peoples ...

New details about the founding of Chinas Navy reveals critical historical context and insight into future strategy From 1949 to 1950, the Peoples ...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated ...

In The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram, author Dean Snow rights the record on a shipwrecked sailor who traversed the length of the North Amer...

The explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-old belief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, ...

In 2009, after a public appeal, the British Library purchased a manuscript Booke, which Captain Narbrough bought in 1666 and into which he subseque...

In 2009, after a public appeal, the British Library purchased a manuscript Booke, which Captain Narbrough bought in 1666 and into which he subseque...

Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic worldPort Cities of the Atlantic World brings toge...

In the 200 years since it was founded, the RNLI has saved more than 144,000 lives. It all began with a meeting in London in 1824 to act on a propo...