Rumrunners: Liquor Smugglers on America's Coasts, 1920-1933
ISBN: 9781476667577 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the riveting true stories of Prohibition's most notorious rumrunners - the daring men and women who sailed the high seas to defy the Volstead Act. With cunning, courage, and machine guns, the rumrunners battled the Dry Navy forces led by the US Coast Guard. When Prohibition ended, Rum Row faded away. But the rumrunners survived as outlaw legends in American history.
Tells the riveting true stories of Prohibition's most notorious rumrunners - the daring men and women who sailed the high seas to defy the Volstead Ac...
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216,22 zł |
Navigating African Maritime History
ISBN: 9780986497315 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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147,56 zł |
British Shipping and World Competition
ISBN: 9780986497322 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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160,91 zł |
Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780968128879 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Canal Pioneers: Canal Construction from 2,500 BC to the Early 20th Century
ISBN: 9781473860490 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the nineteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC. Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but saw the steady improvement of river navigations through locks - the mitre gates were actually first designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The modern age of canals that cross summits began in...
This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the nineteenth century. This is a ...
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134,14 zł |
True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
ISBN: 9781421422572 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of Cochin, China, and the factories of Canton. Their South Seas voyages of commerce and discovery introduced the infant nation to the world and the world to what the Chinese, Turks, and others dubbed the -new people.- Drawing on private journals, letters,... With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Tr... |
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134,14 zł |
Waterway: The Story of Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal
ISBN: 9781933245430 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does a city surrounded by water need another waterway? Find out what drove Seattle's civic leaders to pursue the dream of a Lake Washington Ship Canal for more than sixty years and what role it has played in the region's development over the past century. Historians Jennifer Ott and David B. Williams, author of Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography, explore how industry, transportation, and the very character of the city and surrounding region developed in response to the economic and environmental changes brought by Seattle's canal and locks.? Why does a city surrounded by water need another waterway? Find out what drove Seattle's civic leaders to pursue the dream of a Lake Washington Shi... |
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112,09 zł |
Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites
ISBN: 9781442279087 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites lays the groundwork for keeping this heritage alive in museums and historic sites. It provides the broadest spectrum of discussion and direction for those approaching new installations, projects and programming. Highlights of its wide-range include: -Historic vessels and shipbuilding -Freshwater maritime history, including a focus on regionalism -Maritime archaeology, including shipwrecks -Scientific history, including the environment -Recreational history, including rowing, fishing, racing, and cruising -Lighthouses and lifesaving...
Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites lays the groundwork for keeping this heritage alive in museums and historic sites. It prov...
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187,79 zł |
The Battle for the Migrants: Introduction of Steamshipping on the North Atlantic and Its Impact on the European Exodus
ISBN: 9781927869000 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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187,74 zł |
Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges
ISBN: 9780824867669 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world. The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform and explain historical experiences of maritime regions. Another set discusses efforts--some more successful than others--to impose... Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work ther... |
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149,96 zł |
Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites
ISBN: 9781442279070 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites lays the groundwork for keeping this heritage alive in museums and historic sites. It provides the broadest spectrum of discussion and direction for those approaching new installations, projects and programming. Highlights of its wide-range include: -Historic vessels and shipbuilding -Freshwater maritime history, including a focus on regionalism -Maritime archaeology, including shipwrecks -Scientific history, including the environment -Recreational history, including rowing, fishing, racing, and cruising -Lighthouses and lifesaving...
Interpreting Maritime History at Museums and Historic Sites lays the groundwork for keeping this heritage alive in museums and historic sites. It prov...
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402,41 zł |
Greatest Coast Guard Stories Epb
ISBN: 9781493027026 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exciting rescue stories on the high seas The Coast Guard's rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm. The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United States. In The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told, the editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about air and sea rescues that capture readers imaginations, culled from books, magazines, and elsewhere. It is an...
Exciting rescue stories on the high seas The Coast Guard's rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been...
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80,43 zł |
The Salvager: The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes
ISBN: 9781517902308 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not your grandmother's canning cookbook
Not your grandmother's canning cookbook
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The American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction, and Details
ISBN: 9781626543393 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A monumental work on the design and construction of the clipper ships at their apogee . . . a boon to maritime historians and modelmakers." "A monumental work on the design and construction of the clipper ships at their apogee . . . a boon to maritime historians and modelmakers." |
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234,86 zł |
Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
ISBN: 9781469636122 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands of the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. At home, aboard ship, or around the world, Native American seafarers found themselves in a variety of situations, each with distinct racial expectations about who...
In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans o...
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161,67 zł |
The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of All Nations
ISBN: 9781473860377 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands. Colonies were established and a great empire grew. Funding their ships and cargoes helped make the City of London into the world's leading financial center. In the 19th century a vast network of docks was created for ever-larger ships, behind high, prison-like walls that kept them secret from all those who did not toil within. Sail made way for steam as goods were dispatched to every corner of the world. In the 19th century London was the world's...
The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands. Colo...
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107,26 zł |
The Naval Miscellany: Volume VIII
ISBN: 9781138219793 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King's College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Anglo-South American maritime history. His books include Independence or Death British sailors and Brazilian Independence, A Frigate of King George, The Audacious Admiral Cochrane and Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America. Brian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King's College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical ... |
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Outer Banks Shipwrecks: Graveyard of the Atlantic
ISBN: 9781467124102 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Today, the region that stretches from the Currituck Outer Banks south to Bogue Banks is referred to as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." From the 1585 grounding of the English ship Tiger off the Outer Banks to the 2012 loss of the Bounty, more than 2,000 shipwrecks have occurred in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Weather, geography, war, piracy, and human error have all contributed to this dense shipwreck zone. The stories behind the shipwrecks illustrate the best and worst...
Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Today, the region that stretc...
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107,06 zł |
Victory at Midway: The Battle That Changed the Course of World War II
ISBN: 9781476670713 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. In June 1942, Japan suffered a devastating defeat at the Battle of Midway and was never again able to take the offensive in the Pacific. Bringing fresh perspective to the battle and its consequences, the author identifies Japan's operational plan as a major factor in its navy's demise and describes the profound effects Midway had on the course of the war in Europe.
In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and...
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185,92 zł |
Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island's Welcoming Beacon
ISBN: 9781625859778 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,21 zł |