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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy Ofthe Whaleship Essex

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy Ofthe Whaleship...

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN: 9780756966355
Format: Hardback
$66.26

Now available in paperback, this true-life bestseller tells the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex...  Read More >>

Electronic Navigation Systems

Electronic Navigation Systems

Author: Laurie Tetley ,  David Calcutt
ISBN: 9780750651387
Format: Paperback
$135.95

Provides an understanding of navigation systems and presents the developments in technology and the standardization...  Read More >>

Lighthouses of Texas

Lighthouses of Texas

Author: T. Lindsay Baker ,  F.Ross Holland
ISBN: 9781585441457
Format: Hardback
$105.47

The story of the lighthouses and lightships of Texas, illustrated with watercolours by Harold Phenix. After introducing...  Read More >>

Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us: Finding Your Way By Eye and Electronics

Boat Navigation for the Rest of Us: Finding Your Way...

Author: Bill Brogdon ,  Robert M. Groves
ISBN: 9780071372268
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Teaches you navigation the way small-boat skippers actually navigate: by combining electronic aids like GPS and...  Read More >>

The Role of the Physical Environment in Ancient Greek Seafaring

The Role of the Physical Environment in Ancient Greek...

Author: Jamie Morton
ISBN: 9789004117174
Format: Hardback
$551.76

This study in environmental anthropology explores the physical geography and sailing conditions of ancient Greece...  Read More >>

South Pacific Anchorages

South Pacific Anchorages

Author: Warwick Clay
ISBN: 9780852884829
Format: Paperback
$64.69

Details of harbours and anchorages in the pacific south of the equator between New Guinea and South America.  Read More >>

Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City

Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City

Author: US Department of the Interior
ISBN: 9780160616525
Format: Paperback
$41.58

DMA Pub 229.Volume 5 of a six volume series of Pub. No. 229. Designed to facilitate the practice of celestial navigation...  Read More >>

Iron and Steamship Archaeology: Success and Failure on the SS Xantho

Iron and Steamship Archaeology: Success and Failure...

Author: Michael McCarthy
ISBN: 9780306463655
Format: Hardback
$314.16

In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw...  Read More >>

Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier

Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan...

Author: Theodore,J. Karamanski
ISBN: 9780814329115
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Throughout the 19th and early-20th centuries, schooner trade was vital to the development of the Great Lakes region....  Read More >>

Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice

Global Positioning System: Theory and Practice

Author: B. Hofmann-Wellenhof ,  H. Lichtenegger
ISBN: 9783211835340
Format: Paperback
$228.95

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Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation, Vol. 3 (Clothbound): Latitudes 30-45 Degrees Inclusive

Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation, Vol. 3...

Author: Hydrographic/Topographic Center Defense Mapping Agency (U S )
ISBN: 9780160615511
Format: Paperback
$130.68

"DMA Pub 229. Volume 3 of a six volume series of Pub. No. 229.  Designed to facilitate the practice of celestial...  Read More >>

Ship Stability: Notes and Examples

Ship Stability: Notes and Examples

Author: Bryan Barrass (International maritime consultant and lecturer in marine technology at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9780750648509
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Covers topics such as ship squat, angle of heel whilst turning, and moments of inertia via Simpson's Rules. This...  Read More >>

Small Boat Building

Small Boat Building

Author: H W Patterson
ISBN: 9781929516049
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Radar Afloat

Radar Afloat

Author: Tim Bartlett
ISBN: 9781898660712
Format: Paperback
$65.87

How to use small craft radar. This book is perfect for both sailing and motorboat enthusiasts and essential reading...  Read More >>

Harbour of Refuge: Being the Recreation of Four Seasons on an Offshore Lighthouse from the Authentic Journal of S.P. Jones

Harbour of Refuge: Being the Recreation of Four Seasons...

Author: Stephen Jones ,  Richard Brown
ISBN: 9780939883073
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Tales of a very green Coast Guardsman's lighthouse duty on a tower in Delaware Bay.  Read More >>

Explanations and sailing directions

Explanations and sailing directions

Author: Matthew Fontaine Maury
ISBN: 9781418100773
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Basic Ship Theory, Combined Volume

Basic Ship Theory, Combined Volume

Author: E C Tupper ,  KJ Rawson
ISBN: 9781282284883
Format: Electronic book text
$633.60

Rawson and Tupper's Basic Ship Theory, first published in 1968, is widely known as the standard introductory text...  Read More >>

Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port

Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile...

Author: Graeme Milne (School of History, University of Liverpool (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9780853236160
Format: Paperback
$75.24

This book charts the development of Liverpool’s trade, shipping and business culture in the third quarter of the...  Read More >>

Merchants and Mariners: Selected Maritime Writings of David M. Williams

Merchants and Mariners: Selected Maritime Writings of...

Author: Lars U. Scholl
ISBN: 9780968128886
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This book presents twelve essays by historian David M. Topics include maritime trade, deployment of merchant ships,...  Read More >>

The Globalisation of the Oceans: Containerisation from the 1950s to the Present

The Globalisation of the Oceans: Containerisation from...

Author: Frank Broeze
ISBN: 9780973007336
Format: Paperback
$64.69

With particular emphasis on the east-west trade, the chapters cover the growth and development of the container...  Read More >>

Dock Workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970

Dock Workers: International Explorations in Comparative...

Author: Sam Davies ,  Colin J. Davis
ISBN: 9780754602644
Format: Hardback
$273.00

A two-volume project which goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative...  Read More >>

Passage To Juneau

Passage To Juneau

Author: Jonathan Raban
ISBN: 9780330346290
Format: Paperback
$22.95

A modern classic of travel writing, Passage to Juneau is a dual narrative, the story of Raban's own journey from...  Read More >>

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