Kategoria BISAC: History >> Maritime History & Piracy

The diary of Dr.Chaloner Clay is a unique piece of British maritime history published here for the very first time. This verbatim reproduction provides an insight on a way of travelling the high seas that is long since gone. This word-for-word journal was hand written when Britain did still literally rule the waves. This diary has been in the possesion of the great grandson of its author for many years and it is reproduced here word-for-word from the hand written original for the very first time. In todays modern world we take international travel for granted but in 1881 when this diary...

A picture book featuring 30 beautiful unique pictures of racing and breeding horses in America before the year of 1895. Most of the horses are labeled with their name and some information about them.
The "Show-Me: " book series is made for all ages and covers many different subjects. They are especially enjoyed by: Young children, visual (spatial) learners, language impaired, disabled, elderly, homeschoolers, private schools and history buffs.

A picture book featuring 117 unique pictures of knots, splices and rope work from the year of 1912. Each picture has the name of the knot, splice or rope work.
The "Show-Me: " book series is made for all ages and covers many different subjects. They are especially enjoyed by: Young children, visual (spatial) learners, language impaired, disabled, elderly, homeschoolers, private schools and history buffs.

A picture book featuring over 120 pictures of motorcycles (aka Auto-Cycles) mostly in America during the year of 1909. Pictures of the different types of motorcycles are: R-S, Curtiss, Reliance, Indian, N.S.U., Excelsior, Thor, Merkel, Greyhound, Emblem, New Era, Harley-Davidson, Wagner, Yale, Minneapolis, Pioneer, M.M., Pierce, Erie, Torpedo, Tourist, Racycle, T.A.C., and Triumph.

The "Show-Me: " book series is made for all ages and covers many different subjects. They are especially enjoyed by: Young children, visual (spatial) learners, language impaired, disabled, elderly,...

Dennis Hale reached the dock just in time to see the Daniel J. Morrell heading out to open waters, a 600-foot freighter that had plied the waters for sixty years, carrying ore from Minnesota's Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. The twenty-six-year-old watchman had, quite literally, missed the boat--which meant scrambling to rejoin the Morrell at its next stop or forfeiting a good chunk of his pay package. Seventy-two hours later, Hale would find himself clinging to a life raft alongside the frozen bodies of his crewmates in the violent waves of Lake Huron. The...

Messages from the Sea is a collection of letters and notes found washed ashore on beaches and bobbing in water, in corked bottles and wax-sealed boxes, carved onto wreckage and in the bellies of sharks. They tell of foundering ships, missing ocean liners and shipwrecked sailors, and contain moving farewells, romantic declarations and intriguing confessions. Some solve the mysteries of lost vessels and crews, while others create new mysteries yet to be solved. Dating from a lost era of seafaring, they demonstrate the brave, lonely and fragile nature of life on the ocean waves.