Maritime History

''A wonderfully quirky history'' SUNDAY TIMES''The perfect read while you wait for your summer holiday to begin'' MAIL ON SUNDAY''Quippy anecdotes ...

What motivated the 16th century explorers? The question is a vexed one the world over. To this day, a troubled folkloric status hangs about the bet...

This book is a handy guide for the visitor to the extraordinary collection of maritime artefacts housed in a former warehouse on the Hamburg waterf...

Lighthouses have been used as aids to maritime navigation for centuries. They are highly recognisable and beloved features of our coastline and wat...

Edward Ned' Low's career in piracy began with a single gunshot. While working on a logging ship in the Bay of Honduras the quick-tempered Ned was ...

In SS Great Britain, Helen Doe provides a narrative account of this famous and historically important ship. Experimental and controversial, Great B...

A history of life on board HMS Victory, the world's most famous warship. This addition to the best-selling Conway pocket-book range explores Admir...

This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific regi...

This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific regi...

What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Witho...

The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a rive...

This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bial...

The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates-a potent mix of low-life scallywag...