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Pirates of the Atlantic: Robbery, Murder and Mayhem Off the Canadian East Coast
ISBN: 9780887807411 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pirates have scoured the Atlantic coast from the 15th century to the present day. Separating the myth from reality, author Dan Conlin explains how piracy came to Atlantic Canada from rival European empires who sought to conquer and settle North America. Through the "Golden Age" of piracy, bands of raiders included Peter Easton, the "King of Pirates," the notorious Bartholomew Roberts and the vicious Ned Low, who raided the rich fishing grounds and secure harbours of Newfoundland for their ample supplies, manpower and ships. After a period of time in the 17th century when piracy was... Pirates have scoured the Atlantic coast from the 15th century to the present day. Separating the myth from reality, author Dan Conlin explains how ... |
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Archaeology and the Social History of Ships
ISBN: 9780521194921 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A review of underwater archaeology offering a clear exposition of new developments in undersea technologies.
A review of underwater archaeology offering a clear exposition of new developments in undersea technologies.
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278,70 |
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From T-2 to Supertanker: Development of the Oil Tanker, 1940 - 2000, Revised
ISBN: 9781462002344 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "From T-2 to Supertanker" provides a unique insight into the oil tanker industry's efforts to produce safe and efficient vessels.
Dr. Andrew G. Spyrou believes that marine transportation is the key to effective global shipping, part of which is carrying petroleum by tanker. Enormous changes have taken place in tanker design and construction since World War II. Closure of the Suez Canal on two occasions-1956 and 1967-provided the impetus to enlarge the tanker and to improve tanker performance and safety. The industry's efforts to design and construct today's modern tankers, driven by... "From T-2 to Supertanker" provides a unique insight into the oil tanker industry's efforts to produce safe and efficient vessels.
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93,05 |
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Cherish the Sea - A History of Sail
ISBN: 9781447410928 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book is a detailed treatise on sailing throughout the ages, with information on sailing in ancient cultures, different methods of construction and navigation, development of the art of sailing, notable historical incidents and figures, and much more. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating information, this book is highly recommended for those with a real love of sailing, and would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. Contents include: "The Art of Sail," "Egypt," "Chaldaeo-Phoenicia," "Greece," "Rome," "Byzantium," "The Vikings," "The Crusades," "The North,"...
This vintage book is a detailed treatise on sailing throughout the ages, with information on sailing in ancient cultures, different methods of constru...
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139,20 |
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Practical Yacht Construction - The Construction, Rigging and Equipment of Wood Sailing and Auxiliary Yachts
ISBN: 9781447411567 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book is a detailed guide to designing, building, and maintaining a yacht, with information on everything from deck planking to installing skylights. Written in clear, plain language and profusely illustrated, "Practical Yacht Construction" is highly recommended for yacht owners, designers, and builders with little previous experience. Contents include: "Lead Keep," "Keel and False Keel," "Stem and Apron," "Stern Post and Deadwood," "Horn Timbers," "Rudder," "Frames and Timbers," "Floors," "Shelf and Clamp Stringers," "Beams," "Carlings," "Knees and Pillars," Bottom Planking,"...
This vintage book is a detailed guide to designing, building, and maintaining a yacht, with information on everything from deck planking to installing...
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143,55 |
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Amateur Boat Building
ISBN: 9781447411802 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book is a complete guide to small sailing craft, with a focus on the construction thereof. Written for the amateur boat builder, this handbook is intended to cover all the problems commonly faced by those who attempt to build a boat of their own design, and will be of considerable value to anyone occupied in such an endeavour. Contents include: "General Introduction," "First Stages in Building," "Erecting and Planking," "Miscellaneous Jobs and Tools," "Completing the Hard Chine Runabout," "Timbers, Tools and Some Useful Hints," "Building a 3-Tonner," "Construction of a Larger...
This vintage book is a complete guide to small sailing craft, with a focus on the construction thereof. Written for the amateur boat builder, this han...
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156,60 |
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The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle
ISBN: 9781612032092 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Children of the Sea is the first US release of Joseph Conrad's novella The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea. The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea (1897) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major (middle) period; others have placed it as the best work of his early (first) period. John G. Peters said of it in 2006: "The unfortunately titled The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (titled Children of the Sea in the first American edition) is Conrad's best work of his early...
The Children of the Sea is the first US release of Joseph Conrad's novella The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea. The Nigger of the 'Narcis...
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68,48 |
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Canoe And Boat Building - A Complete Manual For Amateurs.
ISBN: 9781446064108 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book is a complete guide to canoe and boat construction designed for amateurs, with information on tools and equipment, designing, materials, common problems, and much more. Written in simple language and profusely illustrated, this book constitutes a must-have for novice boat builders, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Introduction," "Designing," "Model Making," "Laying Down," "Methods of Building," "Tools and Materials," "Building," "Wells," "Aprons," "Paddles," "Sails and Rigging," "Centerboards," "Rudders,"...
This vintage book is a complete guide to canoe and boat construction designed for amateurs, with information on tools and equipment, designing, materi...
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143,55 |
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A Yachtsman's Guide to Boat Accommodation - A Collection of Historical Boating Articles on the Construction and Comforts of Living Quarters
ISBN: 9781447413608 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of classic articles on the subject of sailing yachts, with information on living quarters and their construction, repairing and maintaining yachts, selecting a vessel, sailing, and many other related aspects. Carefully selected for a modern readership, these articles will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in sailing, and would make for useful additions to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Yachting How to Sail and Manage a Small Modern Yacht Arthur E. Bullen and Geoffrey Prout, Your New Boat Yachting Magazine, Practical...
This book is a collection of classic articles on the subject of sailing yachts, with information on living quarters and their construction, repairing ...
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121,79 |
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Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks
ISBN: 9781603445207 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a guide to the study of the most marvelous structures ever built by humankind-wooden ships and boats. It is intended for nautical archaeologists and for anyone charged with documenting and interpreting the remains of wrecked or abandoned vessels. It will also be of value to historians, authors, model builders, and others interested in the design and construction of wooden watercraft of the past. The text is divided into three parts. The first introduces the discipline and presents enough basic information to permit the untrained reader to understand the analysis of ship and boat...
This book is a guide to the study of the most marvelous structures ever built by humankind-wooden ships and boats. It is intended for nautical archaeo...
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228,05 |
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They Couldn't Have Done it Without Us : The Merchant Navy in the Falklands War
ISBN: 9781906266233 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over seventy merchant ships sailed in the Task force sent by Britain to recapture the Falkland islands in 1982. Some were Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels, but the majority were STUFT-ships taken up from trade-and the officers and crew of these merchant vessels, all volunteers, suddenly found themselves thrust into a war zone in the South Atlantic.
Over seventy merchant ships sailed in the Task force sent by Britain to recapture the Falkland islands in 1982. Some were Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel...
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77,51 |
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Wreckprotect: Decay and Protection of Archaeological Wooden Shipwrecks
ISBN: 9781905739486 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book stems from the results of an interdisciplinary European Union supported research project, WreckProtect, which investigated the decay and preservation of wooden shipwrecks under water in the Baltic Sea. It is not limited to the decay of wrecks in the Baltic alone and is aimed at all stakeholders with a vested interest in the protection of the underwater cultural heritage including marine archaeologists, conservators, engineers, and students in related fields at universities around the world. The book includes chapters on the anatomy and structure of wood and the physical and...
This book stems from the results of an interdisciplinary European Union supported research project, WreckProtect, which investigated the decay and pre...
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119,76 |
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How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
ISBN: 9780062094551 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ship's owner, J. Bruce Ismay. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad's classic novel Lord Jim, Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt--questions that revolve around Ismay's loss of honor and identity as his monolithic venture--a ship called "The Last Word in Luxury" and "The...
Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its af...
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69,89 |
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A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus
ISBN: 9780881462777 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early 1850s. Isidor's father, Lazarus, was an itinerate peddler in Georgia, but within one generation the family became the wealthy owners of Macy's Department Store in New York. A Titanic Love Story follows the Strauses' life from Talbotton, Georgia, where an anti-Semitic incident caused them to move to nearby Columbus. The devastation of Columbus at the end of the Civil War brought the family to New York, where Isidor met and eventually married the young Ida Blun.
... This book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early 1850s. Isidor's fath...
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126,19 |
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Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine: Iron, Guns, and Pearls
ISBN: 9781603444729 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2001, while vacationing on Panama s Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado came upon the hulk of a mysterious iron vessel, revealed by the ebbing tides in a small cove at Isla San Telmo. Local inquiries proved inconclusive: the wreck was described as everything from a sunken Japanese "suicide" submarine from World War II to a poison-laden "craft of death" that was responsible for the ruin of the pearl beds, decades before.
His professional interest fully aroused, Delgado would go on to learn that the wreck was the remains of one of the first successful deep-diving... In 2001, while vacationing on Panama s Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado came upon the hulk of a mysterious iron vessel, revealed...
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138,76 |
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The Titanic's Last Hero: A Startling True Story That Can Change Your Life Forever
ISBN: 9781620200056 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,59 |
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An Unlikely Success Story: The Belfast Shipbuilding Industry 1880-1935
ISBN: 9780953960439 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,46 |
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The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons
ISBN: 9781781391693 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This analytic, yet personal, account of the sinking of the Titanic by Lawrence Beelsely, scholar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, provides a valuable complement to the American and British governmental inquiries and modern movies.
This analytic, yet personal, account of the sinking of the Titanic by Lawrence Beelsely, scholar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, provides a...
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41,29 |
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Maritime Tales of Lake Ontario
ISBN: 9781609496845 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Easternmost of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario is bordered by both New York and Ontario. Upon its pristine surface, countless vessels have sailed, but its bottom depths are littered with the skeletons of shipwrecks, including HMS Ontario, caught and destroyed in one of the sudden storms that often turn this sea-like lake deadly. Daring mariners, male and female, have seen their share of peril, and battles during wars between Britain and the United States and Canada have also been waged here. From Huron canoes to today's "Sunday sailors" who venture from shore only during warmer months, local...
Easternmost of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario is bordered by both New York and Ontario. Upon its pristine surface, countless vessels have sailed, but i...
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85,43 |
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
ISBN: 9781451671575 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From an acclaimed literary biographer, a riveting and groundbreaking account of what happened to the survivors of the Titanic. We think we know the story of the Titanic--the once majestic and supposedly unsinkable ship that struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Britain to America--but very little has been written about the vessel's 705 survivors. How did the events of that horrific night in the icy waters of the North Atlantic affect the lives of those who lived to tell the tale? Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs, diaries, and...
From an acclaimed literary biographer, a riveting and groundbreaking account of what happened to the survivors of the Titanic. We th...
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