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Warship 9: Type 42 Destroyer Southampton
ISBN: 9789086161997 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The primary role of the Type 42 destroyers was providing air defense for the fleet. With their long-range sensors, the ships could also act as radar pickets, sailing ahead of a task group. HMS Southampton was the eighth ship of originally destined to be a 16-ship class, of which two have been exported to Argentina. The type 42 comprised eight Batch 1 vessels, four Batch 2 and four Batch 3 Stretched Type 42.
The primary role of the Type 42 destroyers was providing air defense for the fleet. With their long-range sensors, the ships could also act as radar p...
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77,99 zł |
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Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought
ISBN: 9781032057088 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, local histories, music and performance.
This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the...
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634,12 zł |
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Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought
ISBN: 9781032292977 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, local histories, music and performance.
This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the...
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195,06 zł |
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Warship 12: Guided Missile Frigate Tromp
ISBN: 9789086164028 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both Tromp-class frigates entered service in 1975/-76. Their primary task was area air defense. They acted as flagships for the COMNLTG (Commander Netherlands Task Group). Their large radome (which housed a 3D radar antenna) is why the ships had the nickname ‘Kojak’, after the bald-headed actor in the famous crime tv-series.
Both Tromp-class frigates entered service in 1975/-76. Their primary task was area air defense. They acted as flagships for the COMNLTG (Commander Net...
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77,99 zł |
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Warship 5: Protected Cruiser Gelderland
ISBN: 9789086161959 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Protected cruiser (Pantserdekschip) HNLMS Gelderland was a Holland-class cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. This class, of six ships, was considered a modest, but well thought-out design. At a speed of 10 knots the radius of action would have been 8000 miles, the two triple expansion engines could give a top speed of 20 knots.
Protected cruiser (Pantserdekschip) HNLMS Gelderland was a Holland-class cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. This class, of six ships, was consider...
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77,99 zł |
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Exploring Maritime Washington: A History and Guide
ISBN: 9781467150576 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,19 zł |
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
ISBN: 9780385534260 / Angielski / Inna Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,29 zł |
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Liners 03: Achille Lauro
ISBN: 9789086162536 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Achille Lauro was originally the liner Willem Ruys when sold to the Italian Lauro Organization in 1966. Achille Lauro left the Riuniti yards as a newborn star. After being hijacked by Palestinian warriors (PLO), in October 1985, the blue liner and cruiser made international headlines. Swept by a catastrophic fire Achille Lauro sank 2 December 1994 off the Somalian coast.
Achille Lauro was originally the liner Willem Ruys when sold to the Italian Lauro Organization in 1966. Achille Lauro left the Riuniti yards as a newb...
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77,99 zł |
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A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw
ISBN: 9780813080178 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The USS Saginaw was a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. During this decade, the crew witnessed the trade disruptions of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the transportation of Confederate sailors to Central America, the French intervention in Mexico, and the growing presence of American naval forces in Hawaii.In 1870, the ship sank at one of the world's most remote coral reefs; her crew was rescued sixty-eight days later after a dramatic open-boat voyage. More than 130 years later, Hans Van Tilburg led the team that discovered and recorded...
The USS Saginaw was a Civil War gunboat that served in Pacific and Asian waters between 1860 and 1870. During this decade, the crew witnessed the trad...
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107,26 zł |
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Daredevils of the Atlantic Ocean: Unusual Crossings in Unlikely Vessels
ISBN: 9781948494342 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,08 zł |
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Astonavigation
ISBN: 9789086163427 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking the height of the pole
For the sixteenth century navigator this meant finding your latitude. Five centuries ago, to the year, the first nautical handbooks on celestial navigation appeared in print with declination tables written for 1517-1520. They explained how you can find your position taking the height of the sun or the Pole Star. And which course to steer to find your port. These are techniques that have proven their value through the centuries. In this book Siebren van der Werf and Dick Huges revive this format for the modern sailor, who has a sextant and an accurate... Taking the height of the pole
For the sixteenth century navigator this meant finding your latitude. Five centuries ago, to the year, the first nau... |
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68,24 zł |
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Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa
ISBN: 9781802077711 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After Britain’s Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppressing the thriving transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on previously unpublished papers found in private collections and various archives in the UK and abroad, this book examines the personal and cultural experiences of the naval officers at the frontline of Britain’s anti-slavery campaign in West Africa. It explores their unique roles in this 60-year operation: at sea, boarding slave ships bound for the Americas and ‘liberating’ captive...
After Britain’s Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppress...
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179,66 zł |
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
ISBN: 9780593678251 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,98 zł |
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Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections
ISBN: 9781350238930 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century. It does so by examining how Westerners ‘chronicled’ their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. By utilizing these rich but often overlooked sources, Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia presents new insights into the pace and challenges of daily life, especially in the...
This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as ...
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148,85 zł |
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Into Enemy Waters: A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy SEALS
ISBN: 9781635768480 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,98 zł |
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Women who Ruled the Seas: Fluency 8
ISBN: 9780008624859 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,30 zł |
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Max. Leudesdorf: Nachrichten über die Gesundheitszustände in verschiedenen Hafenplätzen. Heft 7
ISBN: 9783112680650 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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468,31 zł |
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Max. Leudesdorf: Nachrichten über die Gesundheitszustände in verschiedenen Hafenplätzen. Heft 6
ISBN: 9783112680674 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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468,31 zł |
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A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War: An Atlantic-Wide Conflict over Independence and Empire
ISBN: 9781399040419 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,09 zł |
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The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9781501768927 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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234,13 zł |
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