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Enquiry Into the Validity of the British Claim to a Right of Visitation and Search of American Vessels Suspected to Be Engaged in the African Slave-Tr
ISBN: 9781584774075 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A sophisticated defense of state supremacy. Hardcover, 151 pp. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842. Published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain, Enquiry criticizes Britain's seizure of American vessels engaged in the Atlantic slave trade. Although the importation of slaves was prohibited by law at this time, Wheaton rejected the right of other nations to enforce this American law. Instead of serving the United States, he reasons, such actions are a violation of its sovereignty. Reprint of the first edition.
Henry Wheaton 1785-1848] was a... A sophisticated defense of state supremacy. Hardcover, 151 pp. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842. Published simultaneously in ...
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The Buccaneers of America
ISBN: 9781108024815 / Angielski / Miękka / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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325,82 zł |
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Lock, Stock, and Icebergs: A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty
ISBN: 9780774831093 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In April 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the Arctic, and said "Ron that's ours. We own it lock, stock, and icebergs." A simple statement, it summed up Ottawa's official policy: Canada owns the icy waters that wind their way through the Arctic Archipelago. Behind the scenes, however, successive governments have spent over a century trying to figure out how to enforce this claim. Drawing on recently declassified material, Lajeunesse guides readers through the evolution of Canada's Arctic... In April 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to t... |
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Titanic Facts: 201+ Facts about the Unsinkable Ship
ISBN: 9781517326845 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Are you fascinated with the Titanic? Have you wondered what it must have been like to work in those hot boiler rooms, or as a maid to a First Class passenger? Have you wondered what it would have been like to actually be a First Class passenger? Did you watch James Cameron's Titanic and think, "How would I have survived the sinking?" Well, this book is for you. Inside, you will find over 200 facts about the Titanic. There are facts about: Building the Titanic Crew of the Titanic Passengers of the Titanic Interior of the Titanic Maiden voyage of the Titanic Sinking of the Titanic Survivors of...
Are you fascinated with the Titanic? Have you wondered what it must have been like to work in those hot boiler rooms, or as a maid to a First Class pa...
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45,99 zł |
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'lady of St Kilda'
ISBN: 9780992918002 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The topsail schooner 'Lady of St Kilda' was built in 1834 for the wealthy Devon landowner Sir Thomas Dyke Acland. She was to become a key part in the development of the City of Melbourne at a time when untold prosperity was accelerating the growth of the City. Designed as a 'fruit schooner' she served as a private yacht until she was sold to Pope & Co of Plymouth when she sailed out to Port Phillip Bay, Australia in1841. There she undertook several trading voyages for the merchants and shipping agents J B Were Brothers. In 1842 she was prepared for a... The topsail schooner 'Lady of St Kilda' was built in 1834 for the wealthy Devon landowner Sir Thomas Dyke Acland. She was... |
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103,70 zł |
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The History of Merchant Shipping: From American Independence to the Suez Canal
ISBN: 9781780768878 / Angielski / Twarda / 1350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These two volumes present a unique resource on the history and development of merchant shipping from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the latter decades of the nineteenth. International in coverage - including Britain, the United States, France, Holland, India, and the Middle East - the volumes provide a rich compendium of facts and figures on all aspects of merchant shipping, international commerce and trade, seamanship and mercantile law. Among the topics covered are the repeal of the Navigation Laws, the education of merchant seamen, the progress of steam navigation in Europe,...
These two volumes present a unique resource on the history and development of merchant shipping from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the...
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An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Perouse: Volume 3, Plates: Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and Performed in the Yea
ISBN: 9781108073776 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Perouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere (1755 1834) took part in the search that departed in 1791 from Brest in two ships, Recherche and Esperance. In the space of three years, the expedition's naturalists collected numerous specimens, with Labillardiere focusing on Australian flora, but their missing countrymen were never found. Notwithstanding the later confiscation of the scientific collections by the British - Sir Joseph Banks helped to secure their return -...
Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Perouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien Hout...
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177,62 zł |
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The Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards: A Complete Guide to the Ocean Vigias
ISBN: 9781784530075 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Open any nineteenth century navigational chart of the Atlantic Ocean and what is immediately apparent is the proliferation of rocks, shoals, islands and other hazards that litter almost every corner of the ocean. Known to seamen as 'vigias', these were dangers whose existence rested on authentic, documented sightings. Yet amazingly none of these supposed hazards had any real existence. What is the story behind these mysterious vigias?
Raymond Howgego offers a unique study of this intriguing phenomenon. He identifies more than three hundred such vigias, providing exact locations, details... Open any nineteenth century navigational chart of the Atlantic Ocean and what is immediately apparent is the proliferation of rocks, shoals, islands a...
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The South Seas: A Reception History from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour
ISBN: 9780739193358 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of particular productions, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon explore the ways in which authors' and producers' ideas about the South Seas were "haunted" by others who had written on the subject, and how they in...
The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western ent...
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703,07 zł |
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Diving the China Wreck
ISBN: 9780741417374 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,82 zł |
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A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty
ISBN: 9781508668824 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. I sailed from Otaheite on the 4th of April 1789, having on board 1015 fine bread-fruit plants, besides many other valuable fruits of that country, which, with unremitting attention, we had been collecting for three and twenty weeks, and which were now in the highest state of perfection.
I sailed from Otaheite on the 4th of April 1789, having on board 1015 fine bread-fruit plants, besides many other valuable fruits of that country, whi...
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26,91 zł |
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
ISBN: 9781101970355 / Angielski / Miękka / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.The Sea and Civilization is a mesmerizing, rhapsodic narrative of maritime enterprise, from the origins of long-distance migration to the great seafaring cultures of antiquity; from Song Dynasty human-powered paddle-boats to... A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one ano... |
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103,87 zł |
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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
ISBN: 9781469617947 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns.
English piracy and... Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt su...
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280,79 zł |
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Pirates: Predators of the Seas: A Guide to Real-Life Scallywags and Pillagers of the High Seas, from Blackbeard to Captain Kidd
ISBN: 9781510702851 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Authors Angus Konstam and Roger Michael Kean reveal the truth behind our myths, fairy tales, and Hollywood-inspired images. The reality is, unbelievably, even more intriguing than the flashing swords, talking parrots, and mysterious eye patches portrayed in the movies. In this lavishly illustrated tour through history, you can explore the lives of real pirates, such as Blackbeard, Thomas Tew, and Captain Kidd. Find out how, even today, pirates regularly attack and plunder ships. Discover their motivations, diverse backgrounds, daily lives, and codes of conduct. Peek inside pirate ships, trace...
Authors Angus Konstam and Roger Michael Kean reveal the truth behind our myths, fairy tales, and Hollywood-inspired images. The reality is, unbelievab...
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78,12 zł |
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Pirate Flag: Notebook
ISBN: 9781514878835 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pirate flag - Notebook. Skull and Crossbones pirates' flag. Blank pages. Cool statement notebook for Pirates. By Kickazz Notebooks
Pirate flag - Notebook. Skull and Crossbones pirates' flag. Blank pages. Cool statement notebook for Pirates. By Kickazz Notebooks
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John Markham: The Origins of Virginia's Pirate
ISBN: 9781516879380 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. John Markham operated a mercantile business in Alexandria, Virginia from the 1680s through the early part of the eighteenth century. To fill his coffers, he traded back and forth with his native England for goods that the Colonies needed and vice-versa. He was said to be a daring, greedy rascal who did not mind hurting others to get what he wanted. Handsome and dashing, he was also popular with the ladies of the period. Then one day in March of 1683, he turned a corner in his privateering career, a turn that led him into outright piracy. Yet, there are those who say John Markham never...
John Markham operated a mercantile business in Alexandria, Virginia from the 1680s through the early part of the eighteenth century. To fill his coffe...
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72,98 zł |
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The Rainbow Chasers Tricentennial Yearbook
ISBN: 9781515341789 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. NOTE: THIS IS THE BLACK AND WHITE EDITION In 1715, the Spanish treasure fleet, bound for home, was passing through the Bahama Channel when a hurricane destroyed all of the ships, save one. More than a thousand lives were lost, and seventeen million pesos in registered specie and bullion went to the bottom. This tragedy occurred along a stretch of shore now celebrated as the Treasure Coast of Florida, so named for the vast bounty of gold and silver, which continues to be found there. Three centuries later, The Rainbow Chasers Tricentennial Yearbook is a review of that disaster with emphasis on...
NOTE: THIS IS THE BLACK AND WHITE EDITION In 1715, the Spanish treasure fleet, bound for home, was passing through the Bahama Channel when a hurricane...
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Titanic: The Short Story
ISBN: 9781515165958 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a short story of the great ship Titanic, including black and white photos and newspaper clippings. In 1912 over 1500 lives were lost making it one of the worse sea disasters of that time.
This is a short story of the great ship Titanic, including black and white photos and newspaper clippings. In 1912 over 1500 lives were lost making it...
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Titanic Scandal: The Trial of the Mount Temple
ISBN: 9781445649481 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. A steamer lay within sight of the RMS Titanic as she sank, according to ample witnesses - including highly experienced crew who studied this potential saviour through marine binoculars. Officers calmed panicking passengers by telling them rescue was imminent. Captain E. J. Smith even instructed Titanic lifeboats to row to the tantalising stranger and return. But the other ship did nothing. Seen and pursued by launched lifeboats, the mystery ship had disappeared by daybreak, despite distress rockets she could not have failed to see, wireless appeals, and Morse lamp signalling at close...
A steamer lay within sight of the RMS Titanic as she sank, according to ample witnesses - including highly experienced crew who studied this potential...
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48,34 zł |
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The Black Barque: A Tale of the Pirate Slave-Ship Gentle Hand on Her Last African Cruise
ISBN: 9781515284550 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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