Maritime History

John Quirk loves history, drawing and boats and these three elements come together in this attractive and entertaining book. He has sought out obsc...

The Midway-class were the US Navy's biggest carriers built during World War II. Superbly illustrated, this explains how they became the backbone of...

This is a book about sea journeys made by brave souls Italians, Germans, Dutch, and English who battled storms, pirates and xenophobia to stock o...

Edited from Contemporary Records. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 2) is continuous. This is a new print-on-de...

Showcasing photographs and illustrations from a variety of collectors archives, The Unseen Mauretania 1907 reveals the Cunard companys most luxurio...

In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked merely for money. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the importan...

The Eighteenth Century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these...

Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves, goes the popular lyric. The fact that the British built the worlds greatest empire on the basis of sea po...

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the historyand presento...

A sensational, interdisciplinary work which entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings In this magnif...

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and earl...

Celebrating 100 years since the first submariner received the Congressional Medal of Honor, dive into pre-World War II submarine history through th...

A concise introduction to the history and evolution of security at sea. Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the Sou...

A concise introduction to the history and evolution of security at sea. Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the Sou...

This bibliography concerns the ten works written by or produced with the involvement of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) between 1580 and 1588, describi...

The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.S. NavyBuilt out of sand and mud, ...

This book looks at the activities of the Vikings in the Irish Sea, a band of water that has been important since prehistoric times in the history o...

The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon   During ...

`A spellbinding and eloquent story of tragedy, courage, and the triumph of one man determined to see that his shipmates did not die in vain. Mark B...

The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's ...

During an inspection dive in 1980 along Israels Mediterranean coast off of Kibbutz Hahotrim, Shelley Wachsmann, then Inspector of Antiquities for t...

This edited volume aims to highlight every day life and the history of thought of the Hanse merchants that undertook the dangerous journey to the N...

How good that the stories of these adventurous and wonderful women who made extraordinary journeys around the world have now come to light.' Dame ...

Engagingly written, and brilliantly researched, a treasure trove packed with rich nuggets of information. I loved and devoured it. Peter JamesA pe...