Maritime History

According to conventional naval history, the Coastal Motor Boat was the brainchild of three enterprising young Royal Navy officers in the early stages of the First World War. This new...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew warships have captured the imagination quite like the German battleship Bismarck, and fewer still...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden age of sail, when iron-hulled clippers raced one another across the world's oceans for glory...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: slight lean to book with minor stains on boards.Long before the...

'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...

An important record of ancient fishing traditions along Britain's coastal fringes, now rapidly dying out. The Atlantic salmon is an amazing creature: its migration from birth river to Greenland and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a nation forged by the sea, Australia's Year of Sail stands as a magnificent tribute to one of the most celebrated maritime events...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving...

David Bell has been painting ships and the sea for more than forty years. From smacks to schooners, from whalers to warships his investigations have taken him on a remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the sixteenth century, England was a second-rate maritime power — yet within decades, Henry...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most daring solo voyages ever undertaken, Sir Francis Chichester set sail from Plymouth in...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: small bruise on spine. From the earliest colonial patrols to the fleet actions of the Second World War and beyond,...

'One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years' William Dalrymple 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we...

A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that...

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the age of exploration loom as large as Captain James Cook, whose three legendary voyages reshaped the world's understanding of geography,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Tape residueFew figures in the age of exploration command the reverence and fascination of Captain James...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turn of the twentieth century, the banks of Belfast Lough thundered with the sound of riveting...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew weapons of war have commanded the sea — and the imagination — quite like the battleship, and Battleships by Antony Preston stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the catastrophic surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the solemn ceremonies of surrender in Tokyo Bay, War in the Pacific chronicles one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor split to spine.In the pitch-black depths of the North Atlantic,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew vessels have sailed through history with as much resilience and romance as the iron-hulled barque Polly Woodside — also known as the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Ex-libris sticker to FEP, yellowed edges and some minor wear...

Edition: Limited Numbered EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Edition no.961 of 1000. Minor shelf wear to edges, yellowed pages.Few warships have captured the imagination of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew authors have captured the drama of war, sea, and the indomitable human spirit with the precision and narrative force of C.S. Forester, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the helm of one of history's most audacious maritime undertakings, Arthur Phillip — naval officer, visionary administrator, and reluctant empire-builder — charted a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBeneath the vast, silent expanse of the Pacific Ocean lies a graveyard of steel and memory — the sunken remnants of one of World War II's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe vast, unforgiving ocean has always been both a barrier and a bridge for those who dared to seek a new life on distant shores,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew institutions shaped the course of modern warfare as profoundly as the Royal Air Force's maritime squadrons, and Famous Maritime Squadrons of the RAF...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew theatres of World War II were as savage, prolonged, or ultimately decisive as the relentless struggle waged across the North Atlantic — a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew waterways have shaped the destiny of nations as profoundly as the Suez...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor genealogists, historians, and researchers tracing the footsteps of Australia's earliest settlers, Guide to Shipping and Free Passenger...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the thunderous broadsides of Trafalgar to the steel-hulled leviathans that dominated the seas in two World Wars, Battleships by Antony Preston presents a...

The book titled All the World's Battleships: 1906 to the Present by the author I. Sturton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe sea has always been humanity's most unforgiving frontier, and Famous Rescues at Sea chronicles the extraordinary moments when courage and seamanship triumphed over...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingBehind the closed doors of a Royal Navy tribunal, one man's honour, career, and legacy hang in the balance — Court Martial by Alastair...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodThe open ocean has always called to those restless souls who refuse to be landlocked — and no writer answers that call more compellingly than Alexei...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a storm-lashed night in the South China Sea, a young officer named Cyril Trewsbury finds himself adrift...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew episodes in the annals of seafaring history have seized the popular imagination so forcefully as the Mutiny...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the annals of exploration command as much reverence and fascination as James Cook, the Yorkshire-born navigator who charted the unknown...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the gold rushes transformed a continent, Australia was a patchwork of struggling colonial settlements clinging to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most extraordinary and haunting stories in maritime history, The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst chronicles the doomed solo circumnavigation attempt of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the annals of exploration cast as long a shadow as Captain James Cook, and Richard Hough's The Murder of Captain James...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn 1969, a 29-year-old British merchant navy officer named Robin Knox-Johnston sailed into history, becoming the first person to complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the height of the Elizabethan age, when England's ambitions stretched...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew episodes in naval history have seized the imagination quite like the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty in 1789, and Richard Hough's Captain Bligh and...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the annals of early Australian maritime history as Captain James Kelly, the daring Hobart Town seaman...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew naval engagements of the Second World War carry the tragic grandeur of the Scharnhorst's final battle, and...