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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive...
Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History: A Nautical History of the World
From the Stone Age to the present day, no technology has had a more profound impact on mankind than watercraft. Boats and ships made possible the settlement and conquest of...
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea
An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.' Times...
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
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The enthralling history of Britain's historic rock lighthouses, exploring the enduring appeal of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, now in paperback Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea....
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
"Titanic": Destination Disaster - The Legends and the Reality
More than eight decades after the most famous sinking of all time, interest in the Titanic tragedy remains as strong as ever. Here, two of the world's foremost Titanic experts...
The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit
'gripping, engaging popular history' - Sydney Morning Herald The Dunbar was one of the most advanced and celebrated sailing ships of the mid-19th century. Built to carry passengers in speed...
Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters
These true-life adventures unfold amid flames, collisions, and explosions, with frantic calls of SOS and a rush to clamber aboard the lifeboats. Naval historian William H. Miller, Jr., recounts the...
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired 'Moby Dick'
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued...