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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
ISBN: 9781250058294 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy, and so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not work. Yet freight shipping is all but invisible. Away from public scrutiny, it revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of "flags of convenience." And then there are the pirates. Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we would... On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In pos... |
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77,03 |
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Arqueometalurgia de un naufragio del siglo XVIII: La corbeta de guerra HMS Swift (1770), Puerto Deseado provincia de Santa Cruz (Patagonia)
ISBN: 9781407312286 / Hiszpański / Mixed media product / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the research results carried on the metallic artifacts from the British HMS Swift, lost off Puerto Deseado (Province of Santa Cruz, Argentina) in 1770. The shipwreck - located 47 45' 12'' South, 65 54' 57'' West - was found by local divers and has been the subject of archaeological study since 1997. This book presents the research results carried on the metallic artifacts from the British HMS Swift, lost off Puerto Deseado (Province of Santa Cr... |
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371,16 |
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Lasting Friendships: A Century of Friendship Sloops
ISBN: 9780990404019 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally developed in the late 1800s as a working boat and fishing platform, the Friendship sloop has survived as a type and has become recognized as an American sailing classic. This is the story of a family of boats and how they weathered more than a century of change and transition, and why they still have a passionate following today. With hundreds of photographs, both contemporary and historical, sidebars from multiple authors, Lasting Friendships is a must for any lover of traditional sailing vessels or Maine history.
Originally developed in the late 1800s as a working boat and fishing platform, the Friendship sloop has survived as a type and has become recognized a...
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96,34 |
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Boats of the Viking Ship Museum
ISBN: 9788785180636 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,57 |
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
ISBN: 9780465062881 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left, Shackleton and a...
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharte...
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ESTUDIO DE LA INFLUENCIA del TRANSPORTE MARITIMO en el DESARROLLO VIVIDO EN EL PUERTO DE FERROL
ISBN: 9781500960735 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El objeto de este trabajo es la realizacion de un estudio del transporte maritimo existente en el puerto de Ferrol a lo largo del ultimo siglo, asi como de la influencia que ha tenido el citado transporte en la evolucion del puerto. Para ello se hara tambien un estudio del "hinterland" ferrolano para ver como ha ido condicionando la evolucion del puerto y de sus instalaciones."
El objeto de este trabajo es la realizacion de un estudio del transporte maritimo existente en el puerto de Ferrol a lo largo del ultimo siglo, asi co...
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Ships, Saints and Sealore: Cultural Heritage and Ethnography of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
ISBN: 9781905739950 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-disciplinary cooperation amongst academics. This book is a selection of conference papers and other contributions that has seen the coming-together of scholars and researchers from backgrounds as diverse as archaeology, history, ethnography, maritime and heritage studies of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Its strength lies in the way such diversity has been harnessed to provide an engaging and insightful study of the sea and its influences on...
Just as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-disc...
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180,44 |
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SS Pasteur/TS Bremen: Classic Liners
ISBN: 9780750961011 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fascinating story of a Cunard vessel that became the last German flagship, adored by France, and popular around the world TS "Bremen" was one of the most popular liners operating across the Atlantic. Built for the French as the SS "Pasteur," she made a dramatic escape in 1940 carrying 200 tons of French gold bullion reserves to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Requisitioned by the British under Cunard, she became a hospital troopship, carrying 300,000 Allied troops around the world, with a major role in supplying the Battle of El Alamein. Charles de Gaulle claimed that the "Pasteur" s contribution...
The fascinating story of a Cunard vessel that became the last German flagship, adored by France, and popular around the world TS "Bremen" was one of t...
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100,60 |
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Maritime Studies in the Wake of the Byzantine Shipwreck at Yassiada, Turkey
ISBN: 9781623492151 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2007 a symposium was held at Texas A&M University to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Texas A&M University Press s publication of the first volume reporting the Yassiada shipwreck site. Seventeen papers from that symposium featured in this book broadly illustrate such varied topics as ships and seafaring life, maritime trade, naval texts, commercial cargoes, and recent developments in the analysis of the Yassiada ship itself."
In 2007 a symposium was held at Texas A&M University to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Texas A&M University Press s publication of the firs...
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308,55 |
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Large Cargo Ships in Danish Waters 1000-1250
ISBN: 9788785180537 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A wealthy man in Denmark, citizen of the town of Schleswig, built a large ship at great expense. And the king of the country decided to join company and take part in the profits. And after he had made good half of the costs, he owned a corresponding part of the ship ..."
The medieval Hanseatic merchants are famous for their maritime trade network, which extended across Northern Europe from the 13th century onward. The rare quote above sheds light on a less known period, beginning in the late Viking Age, when large, elegant cargo ships were built and sailed across the sea by Scandinavian... "A wealthy man in Denmark, citizen of the town of Schleswig, built a large ship at great expense. And the king of the country decided to join company ...
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269,38 |
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Classic Ships of the Great Lakes
ISBN: 9781933272504 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,00 |
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The Sting of the Hawke: Collision in the Solent
ISBN: 9781502946874 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the 20th of September 1911 the White Star Liner RMS Olympic, coming out of Southampton Water, was making a turn to port around the West Bramble buoy in the Solent. At the same time, HMS Hawke, a protected cruiser of the Royal Navy, was making a turn to starboard around Egypt Point, a prominent landmark on the north end of the Isle of Wight. As the two vessels completed their respective turns they steadied on what appeared to be almost parallel courses with Olympic accelerating rapidly towards her full ahead speed for restricted waters. As Olympic drew ahead of Hawke, the much smaller...
On the 20th of September 1911 the White Star Liner RMS Olympic, coming out of Southampton Water, was making a turn to port around the West Bramble buo...
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48,35 |
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Stranded: Alaska's Worst Maritime Disaster Nearly Happened Twice
ISBN: 9781459731547 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska's worst maritime disaster -- until it nearly happened again.
In 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia left Skagway, Alaska, on her last trip of the season to Vancouver. She never made it. Battered by a raging snowstorm and sent dangerously off course, she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef, a rocky shoal in Lynn Canal, North America's deepest and longest fjord. She would spend two days high and dry on the reef, with rescue ships standing by, unable to help, before she finally... The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska's worst maritime disaster -- until it nearly happened again. |
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77,03 |
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Scotia the Brave
ISBN: 9781502798190 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a readable and informative account of a long period in history which culminated in the launch of the Cunard Mail Steamer "Scotia," last of the big paddlers. This book tells - How the United States, builder of the world's finest sailing ships, missed the boat when it came to transatlantic steam travel. How the Cornish miners' need to dig deeper and to dig further under water led directly to Britain becoming the world capital of manufacturing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, How Liverpool, aided by the shipbuilders of Scotland, played a key role in the creation of wealth in...
This is a readable and informative account of a long period in history which culminated in the launch of the Cunard Mail Steamer "Scotia," last of the...
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50,58 |
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Titanic
ISBN: 9781508790754 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At noon on Wednesday, 10th April 1912, the Titanic started from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Small enough was her experience of the sea before that day. Many hands had handled her; many tugs had fussed about her, pulling and pushing her this way and that as she was manoeuvred in the waters of Belfast Lough and taken out to the entrance to smell the sea. There she had been swung and her compasses adjusted.
At noon on Wednesday, 10th April 1912, the Titanic started from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Small enough was her experience of the sea before th...
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Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy
ISBN: 9781476746647 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the "thrilling and perfectly paced" (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty--the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty--which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida. Walbridge knew that a hurricane was forecast, yet he was determined to sail. The captain told the crew that anyone...
From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the "thrilling and perfectly paced" (Booklist) story of the sinking and ...
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65,47 |
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Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It
ISBN: 9781416576013 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,32 |
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SISTEMA DE AMARRE y FONDEO DE UN BUQUE TIPO SUPPLY
ISBN: 9781511737579 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En el presente libro se procedera a desglosar los elementos tipicos, asi como sus caracteristicas, de un sistema de amarre y fondeo, y se realizara un repaso a su evolucion a lo largo de la historia. A continuacion, se expondra la normativa que regula los equipos de amarre, los posibles fallos que pueden darse comunmente entre los componentes del sistema de amarre y fondeo, y el modo de prevenirlos. Asimismo, se evaluara la importancia de dicho sistema en un buque tipo Supply, y se hara una breve exposicion acerca de la importancia de este tipo de buque en la actualidad. Como caso practico,...
En el presente libro se procedera a desglosar los elementos tipicos, asi como sus caracteristicas, de un sistema de amarre y fondeo, y se realizara un...
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73,85 |
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The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce
ISBN: 9780806151939 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On April 1, 1865, the steamboat "Bertrand, " a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the "Bertrand" remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the "Bertrand" in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route...
On April 1, 1865, the steamboat "Bertrand, " a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River...
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117,50 |
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Lusitania
ISBN: 9781250080356 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I. On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an er... |
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115,56 |
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