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 Nets & DoorsBest Price: $16.32 Jack Leigh has another winner in this collection of nautical photos. Makes me want to run out... |  Setting Sail: Ten Thousand Years of Seafaring Adventure (Book & DVD)Best Price: $22.49 "James Cook was the first person to acknowledge the full extent of the Polynesian diaspora... |  The Sea's Bitter Harvest: Thirteen Deadly Days on the North AtlanticBest Price: $6.30 Not the best I've read, but none the less, fascinating. For whatever reason I'm fascinated by... |  Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)Best Price: $32.13 In the movie Master and Commander, there is a scene where Captain Aubrey is looking at a model... |  Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern WorldBest Price: $7.89 A somewhat casual reader of non-fiction, though no stranger to history or economics, my... |
 Seafaring Lore and Legend : A Miscellany of Maritime Myth, Superstition, Fable, and FactBest Price: $19.46 This book is absolutely fascinating if you're at all interested in - well, in seafaring lore... |  Worthy of the Sea: K. Aage Nielsen and His Legacy of Yacht DesignBest Price: $37.77 I gave this book to a friend who has a wooden boat and he couldn't have been more thirlled. ... |  The Liner: Retrospective and RenaissanceBest Price: $24.29 Philip Dawson's The Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance, is a very informative and interesting... |  The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the PacificBest Price: $7.36 This first hand account comprised of journal entries with commentary is a fascinating read and... |  In Search of Robinson CrusoeBest Price: $2.31 Those reader's who have read some of the author's fictional books may be surprised to know that... |
 The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and CrimeBest Price: $5.60 The Outlaw Sea is about the immensity of the sea and the essential lawlessness of commercial... |  U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy (New Vanguard)Best Price: $4.44 U-Boats of the Kaiser's Navy is a brief survey of the early development of the German submarine... |  Florida's Shipwrecks (Images of America: Florida)Best Price: $12.65 The Sunshine State has a rich maritime history spanning more than five centuries. Tragically,... |  Nelson to Vanguard: Warship Development 1923-1945Best Price: $19.67 If you want a fun, quick-reading, concise description of British Navy ships in World War II,... |  Pride Of The SeaBest Price: $5.84 This book had a big meening for me because I knew the crew of the Pride very well.I was on the... |
 Titanic: Destination Disaster : The Legends and the RealityBest Price: $3.99 This is probably my favorite short book on the Titanic. It may not have all the material... |  Treasure Ship: The Legend and Legacy of the S.S. Brother JonathanBest Price: $7.64 I truly enjoyed this remarkably well conceived and well-written account of the shipwreck,... |  The U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War: An Illustrated HistoryBest Price: $6.99 |  PT 105Best Price: $12.03 I read this book a few years ago. My Father was a PT sailor who spent time in many of the same... |  Dust on the Sea (The Royal Marines Saga)Best Price: $8.95 A thoroughly convincing account of World War II from the Royal marine Commando point of view. I... |
 Thach Weave: The Life of Jimmie ThachBest Price: $3.88 I am fairly well-read on the U.S. Navy in World War II. But prior to this book, all I knew... |  The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories & Secrets Behind the Sinking of the Unsinkable Ship-TitanicBest Price: $4.74 Being a fan of Walter Lord's impeccably researched book "A Night to Remember," I was... |  Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times (Expanded Edition)Best Price: $14.99 This classic masterpiece deserved reprinted more than anything else and it is done with an... |  FAIRMILE 'D' MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT (Anatomy of the Ship)Best Price: $25.75 This is the best book about british Fairmile D as I know. Ideal for modelers (contains a... |  Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley 1503-1603Anne Chambers is the authority on Granuaile O'Malley, and she has written the definitive... |
 Lost At SeaBest Price: $3.75 On February 14th, 1983 my father was on the Altair when it disappeared. In 1998 my mother and I... |  American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898-1945 (Fortress)Best Price: $4.75 For those involved in the study of the Taft and Endicott Periods of coast defense doctrine and... |  Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Early American Studies)Best Price: $24.95 Maritime history is one of those sub-fields of history that still has room for fresh... |  America's Lighthouses: An Illustrated HistoryBest Price: $4.60 I was a little disappointed because the title of the book said, Illustrated copy and there were... |  Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans (Civil War America)Best Price: $21.29 Pierson has taken on a task for himself, and the results are well worth the trouble. The... |
 USS Iowa at WarBest Price: $12.34 while the subject is covered, the author does digress from subject when h e mentions other... |  Confederate Raider 1861-65 (New Vanguard)Best Price: $5.00 The Confederate states adopted radical solutions to counter the naval superiority of their... |  A Fine Boy for Killing (The Sea Officer William Bentley Novels)Best Price: $11.22 A Fine Boy for the Killing caught my interest from the start, but it got more and more... |  Disaster at Sea: Shipwrecks, Storms, and Collisions on the AtlanticBest Price: $8.93 I seldom go in for non-fiction literary works. However, Dr. William Flayhart III was one of my... |  Record Breakers of the North Atlantic: Blue Riband Liners 1838-1952Best Price: $26.29 This is one of those standards that ocean liner enthusiasts must have. The information is... |
 The Ballard Locks (Images of America: Washington)Best Price: $12.85 The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, known locally as the Ballard Locks, are an integral part of... |  LusitaniaBest Price: $4.89 I was inspired to read this book after reading Max Alan Collins' "disaster mystery"... |  The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron WorksBest Price: $4.95 In my lifetime I have made many a trip to Bath and the BIW as my father grew up there and my... | Lusitania Best Price: $4.89 I was inspired to read this book after reading Max Alan Collins' "disaster mystery"... | The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works Best Price: $4.95 In my lifetime I have made many a trip to Bath and the BIW as my father grew up there and my... |
 The Kedge Anchor; or, Young Sailors' AssistantBest Price: $10.91 Upon its mid-nineteenth-century publication, this book became the Bible of U.S. sailors. Its... |  War in the Boats: My WWII Submarine Battles (Memories of War)Best Price: $6.34 War in the Boats is a classic in the field of submarine history and World War Two history. It's... |  In the Wake of GalleonsBest Price: $23.47 First let me say I have read Robert Marx's books, since he and Clay Blair did "Diving for... |  Treasure Hunt: Shipwreck, Diving, and the Quest for Treasure in an Age of HeroesBest Price: $12.10 ?A remarkable book, in which a very wide spectrum of human behavior is on show---from colossal... |  AGE OF THE GALLEY: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times (Conway's History of the Ship Series)Best Price: $15.87 The appearance of this book is deceptive. The full-color illustration on the oversized cover... |
 Drag Boats of the 1960s Photo ArchiveBest Price: $18.78 The time has come to chronicle a photo archival book of Drag Boats of the 1960s aptly named ?The... |  Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal (Bluejacket Paperbacks)Best Price: $4.50 I was impressed with this book's scholarship, but after looking into the sources for the chapter... |  The Golden Century: Classic Motor Yachts, 1830-1930Best Price: $14.95 Ross Mactaggert's volume on the yachts of "The Golden Century" holds an important... | ||
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