Ships & Boats: General Interest

Water transportation has played a key role in the Great Lakes regions settlement and economic growth, from providing entry into the new lake states...

This meticulously researched and illustrated book focuses on the evolution of aircraft carriers and naval aircraft. It features chronological histo...

A beautifully illustrated coffee-table book that launches the reader into the moneyed world of late 19th-century America, when men once known as Ro...

At a time before budget air travel, when the ocean liner ruled the seas, the demand for speed, regularity and luxury on the transatlantic route lau...

L.T.C. Rolt played a crucial role in the revival of Britains inland waterways and pioneered the first preserved narrow-gauge railway. He is still a...

Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel between continents was by sea. In the golden age o...

An engaging account of the Cocks family and their life at Napton Lock as carpenters on the Oxford Canal for more than a hundred years. Painstaking...

Passengers cancelling their tickets for Titanics maiden voyage out of apprehension; a famous social reformer who died on Titanic, warned in 1911 th...

This volume includes some very famous ships with tales of adventure and new trade routes, also sadness, the launch and then the loss of the largest...