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The Men of the Merchant Service
ISBN: 9781536198867 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1900, this book was written for anyone interested in going to sea or simply curious about the work of sailors. Drawing on his own experience and extensive research, the author outlines the duties, qualifications, and responsibilities of various members of the ship's company, creating a portrait of a sailor's life.
Published in 1900, this book was written for anyone interested in going to sea or simply curious about the work of sailors. Drawing on his own experie...
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897,30 |
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Messengers of empire
ISBN: 9781802077681 / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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440,90 |
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Oceans, Seas, Shorelines and Warfare
ISBN: 9781032772714 / Miękka / 21-05-2026 / 290 str. Książka dostępna od: 21-05-2026 |
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274,89 |
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UAE Maritime Heritage تراث الإمارات البحري
ISBN: 9789948772095 / Arabski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,50 |
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Generale Missiven Van Gouverneurs-Generaal En Raden Aan Heren XVII Der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie Deel XIV: 1761-1767. Band 1: Part 1
ISBN: 9789088905346 / Holenderski / Twarda / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
418,86 |
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Generale Missiven Van Gouverneurs-Generaal En Raden Aan Heren XVII Der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie Deel XIV: 1761-1767. Band 2: Part 2
ISBN: 9789088905377 / Holenderski / Twarda / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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418,86 |
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Koloniale Mythen En Benedenwindse Feiten: Curaçao, Aruba En Bonaire in Inheems Atlantisch Perspectief, Ca. 1499-1636
ISBN: 9789088906039 / Holenderski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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468,13 |
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Koloniale Mythen En Benedenwindse Feiten: Curaçao, Aruba En Bonaire in Inheems Atlantisch Perspectief, Ca. 1499-1636
ISBN: 9789088906015 / Holenderski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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172,47 |
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Op Bezoek Bij de Groot-Mogol: Twee Hofreizen Van de Voc Naar de Groot-Mogol in India, 1662 En 1711-1713
ISBN: 9789088903779 / Holenderski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) is known for its spices imported from the Moluccans. It is less well-known that apart from spices the VOC also imported many millions of calicoes from India during the 17th and 18th century. For a long time the Dutch were the most important foreign trader in India, using dozens of trading stations (' factories') at which over 3000 Dutch company servants were deployed.
To be allowed to trade in India, so-called firmans were necessary, official orders by the Great-Mogol, laying down the trade privileges. These firmans had to be renewed regularly. After... The Dutch East India Company (VOC) is known for its spices imported from the Moluccans. It is less well-known that apart from spices the VOC also impo...
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197,11 |
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Op Bezoek Bij de Groot-Mogol: Twee Hofreizen Van de Voc Naar de Groot-Mogol in India, 1662 En 1711-1713
ISBN: 9789088903885 / Holenderski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) is known for its spices imported from the Moluccans. It is less well-known that apart from spices the VOC also imported many millions of calicoes from India during the 17th and 18th century. For a long time the Dutch were the most important foreign trader in India, using dozens of trading stations (' factories') at which over 3000 Dutch company servants were deployed.
To be allowed to trade in India, so-called firmans were necessary, official orders by the Great-Mogol, laying down the trade privileges. These firmans had to be renewed regularly. After... The Dutch East India Company (VOC) is known for its spices imported from the Moluccans. It is less well-known that apart from spices the VOC also impo...
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cena:
591,32 |
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Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393327137 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compass--so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger. From the time man first took to the seas until only one thousand years ago, sight and winds were the sailor's only navigational aids. It was not until the development of the compass that maps and charts could be used with any accuracy--even so, it would be hundreds of years and thousands of shipwrecks before the marvelous instrument was perfected. And its...
Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compass--so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by...
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cena:
96,03 |
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
ISBN: 9780812977226 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier. 16 pp. of photos. Maps. From the Hardcover edition.
For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records ...
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cena:
84,55 |
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Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy
ISBN: 9780061572845 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who terrorized the seas. From 1692 to 1725 pirates sailed the oceans of the world, plundering ships laden with the riches of India, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Often portrayed as larger-than-life characters, these outlaw figures and their bloodthirsty exploits have long been immortalized in fiction and film. But beneath the legends is the true story of these brigands--often common men and women escaping the social and economic... I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who ... |
cena:
72,98 |
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Ships and Men of the Great Lakes
ISBN: 9780912514512 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ships and men of the Great Lakes spans more than a century of Great Lakes history in a series of true, thoroughly documented dramas, most of them describing the misadventures of vessels and the men who sailed them. What ever happened to the sturdy old SOO CITY--what caused her to vanish with all hands? There was no mystery, however, about why the Daniel J. Morrell went down one stormy night in November 1966, although the survival of crewman Dennis Hale and his graphic account of his encounter with a ghostly stranger on the life raft is another matter. Stories of dreadful tragedy and unbridled...
Ships and men of the Great Lakes spans more than a century of Great Lakes history in a series of true, thoroughly documented dramas, most of them desc...
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57,46 |
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Jack's Edition of Life at Sea, Or, the Jervian System in 183-, a Series of Letters by an Old Irish Captain of the Head to His Nephew. to Which Are Add
ISBN: 9781144759832 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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cena:
115,99 |
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Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea: (515 P.)
ISBN: 9781148675954 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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120,30 |
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The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Bucca
ISBN: 9781108024815 / Angielski / Miękka / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Esquemeling (better known as Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin) (c. 1645 1707) was a French barber-surgeon best remembered for this classic account of the buccaneer pirates of the West Indies. After travelling to Tortuga in 1666, Esquemeling joined the buccaneer company of Henry Morgan, one of the most successful and notorious privateers of the period. This volume, first published in English in 1684, and now reissued from the 1893 reprint, contains Esquemeling's detailed account of Morgan's dramatic exploits and adventures. Covering the period 1668 1674, Esquemeling recounts in fascinating...
John Esquemeling (better known as Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin) (c. 1645 1707) was a French barber-surgeon best remembered for this classic account of...
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373,12 |
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The Sea Their Graves: An Archaeology of Death and Remembrance in Maritime Culture
ISBN: 9780813037349 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic of its type the closest comparison is the legendary Weibust s Deep Sea Sailors, and I would hazard to suggest that this book may come to hold a similarly important place in the scholarship of maritime ethnography. Joseph Flatman, author of Ships and Shipbuilding in Medieval Manuscripts This innovative study provides an important analysis of Anglo-American mariners attitudes toward death, the dead, and commemoration. It will be valuable to all interested in historic maritime culture and mortuary practices, and reveals a distinctive mariner subculture which also...A classic of its type the closest comparison is the legendary Weibust s Deep Sea Sailors, and I would hazard to suggest that this book may ... |
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275,95 |
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Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the True Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean
ISBN: 9781408822166 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book.
The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor ...
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88,13 |