Maritime History

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...