Maritime History

A shipwreck is a time capsule. When a maritime archaeologist picks up an item from the seabed, it is a direct connection with history. The last tim...

An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past. In Wonders in the Deep Mensun Bound, the ...

On January 21, 1840, Dumont d'Urville discovers an immense Antarctic land. At the head of the Astrolabe, the future Rear Admiral, last in line of g...

In a world of gunpowder, smoke and blood, two mens love will rise above the chaos.'An absorbing follow-up to the brilliant Leeward' The TimesIn 180...

Taking the height of the poleFor the sixteenth century navigator this meant finding your latitude. Five centuries ago, to the year, the first nauti...

Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and t...

After Britains Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppress...

From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing en...

In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding ice floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance. ...

Water may separate islands and the mainland, but the sea also offers a vital link. This volume is one of three major outputs of the research and pu...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom HollandThe 'Viking Age' is traditionally hel...

From the grisly cover photo of a reproduction gibbet to ghostly folk tales, the topic never fails to thrill. Dan Conlin's Pirates of the Atlantic i...

This is a story drawn from the early days of the Canadian Navy, an account of four young Canadian seamen who were the Navy's first casualties at th...