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Monarchs of the Sea: Great Ocean Liners
ISBN: 9781860643736 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mythology surrounding the Titanic overshadows the fact that the ship heralded a new age of transportation that forged the modern travel industry. The decades that followed the saga of the Titanic are laden with the names of even greater liners--the Ile du France, the Normandie, Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, the S.S. United States and many others. This stunning book presents their fascinating history in words and beautiful photos.
The mythology surrounding the Titanic overshadows the fact that the ship heralded a new age of transportation that forged the modern travel industry. ...
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253,87 |
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Scuttlebutt: Seafaring History & Lore
ISBN: 9781892216427 / Angielski / Spiral bound / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Guest has written this very interesting and informative book after many years of research into seafaring traditions, stories, and the history of the sea. An Old Salt himself, this book was the next, natural step for John after his retirement from the U.S. Coast Guard. In this book you'll find the origins of sea-born words that have come ashore, and stories of famous and infamous ships and people. This book will fulfill the common interest for little known seafaring facts we all have in our lives. It will definitely answer the question, I wonder where that started? Everyone from the...
John Guest has written this very interesting and informative book after many years of research into seafaring traditions, stories, and the history of ...
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98,50 |
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Ocean Transportation
ISBN: 9781893122451 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,20 |
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The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic
ISBN: 9780743235037 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1854 collision at sea between the American ship Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history. David W. Shaw has based this fascinating account on the firsthand testimony of the few who survived the wreck, including the Arctic's heroic captain, James C. Luce, who was forced to fight his mutinous crew as they took the lifeboats and left hundreds of passengers to suffer a cruel and painful death. Not only did 400 people -- including Luce's own frail son -- die by daybreak, but the wreck also...
The 1854 collision at sea between the American ship Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the mos...
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74,81 |
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Tin Can 367
ISBN: 9781434339621 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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263,05 |
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The Rescue of the Gale Runner: Death, Heroism, and the U.S. Coast Guard
ISBN: 9780813032702 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Recounts the tragic story of the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Quillayute River Station, who attempted to rescue the sailors of the sailboat Gale Runner in February 1997. . . . Will give you a greater understanding and respect for what the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard are asked to do and accomplish every day somewhere on the nation's waters."--US Naval Institute Proceedings"Noble's on-the-spot experiences, his professional background and his established maturity as an historical writer make The Rescue of the Gale Runner as gripping an account of rescue...
"Recounts the tragic story of the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Quillayute River Station, who attempted to rescue the sailors of the sailboat Gale R...
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112,18 |
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The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780802143921 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic draws on published accounts and journals of survivors. Historian Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericaults painting The Raft of the Medusa.
This spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic draws on published accounts and journals of survivors. Historian Miles brill...
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86,86 |
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Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries
ISBN: 9780472050499 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A must buy for anyone interested in the Great Lakes." In 1892, the Ann Arbor Car Ferries shook the transportation world by doing what was then deemed impossible---carrying loaded railroad cars by ship across the sixty-two miles of open water between Frankfort, Michigan and Kewaunee, Wisconsin. With passion, acuity, and remarkable detail, Grant Brown describes the nearly 100-year crossings---from their beginnings with James Ashley's bold new idea of car ferrying down to the last fight for survival until the Michigan Interstate Rail... "A must buy for anyone interested in the Great Lakes." In 1892, the Ann Arbor Car Ferries shoo... |
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111,97 |
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The Myth of the Titanic
ISBN: 9780333725979 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first critical analysis of the Titanic as modern myth, this book focuses on the second of the two Titanics . The first was the physical Titanic, the rusting remains of which can still be found twelve thousand feet below the north Atlantic. The second is the mythical Titanic which emerged just as its tangible predecessor slipped from view on 15 April 1912. It is the second of the two Titanics which remains the more interesting and which continues to carry cultural resonances today. The Myth of the Titanic begins with the launching of the 'unsinkable ship' and ends with the outbreak of the...
The first critical analysis of the Titanic as modern myth, this book focuses on the second of the two Titanics . The first was the physical Titanic, t...
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412,92 |
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R.M.S. Nascopie: Ship of the North
ISBN: 9780919614703 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty years ago, Royal Mail Ship "Nascopie" ended a life full of adventure on an unmarked reef in Hudson s Strait. Launched by the Hudson s Bay Company in 1911, her main mission was to supply the Company s far-flung posts in Canada s North. Alone and without any of today s navigation and communications equipment, she battled ice and icebergs, fog, storms, and uncharted waters to delivery everything the posts needed to survive and trade. Few ships played such a prolonged role in developing Canada s North and maintaining her presence there. "Nascopie" was a strong ship sailed by strong... Fifty years ago, Royal Mail Ship "Nascopie" ended a life full of adventure on an unmarked reef in Hudson s Strait. Launched by the Hudson s Bay Com... |
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78,92 |
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The Seacraft of Prehistory
ISBN: 9780415026352 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed account of man's use of inland and ocean-going craft from the earliest times until the dawn of recorded history using new archaeological information.
A detailed account of man's use of inland and ocean-going craft from the earliest times until the dawn of recorded history using new archaeological in...
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319,82 |
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The Ships Of The United States Navy And Their Sponsors 1797-1913
ISBN: 9780548089934 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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207,61 |
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When Steamboats Reigned in Florida
ISBN: 9780813032351 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In When Steamboats Reigned in Florida, Bob Bassexplores the impact of these vessels along with the stories of those who ran or established the steamboat routes along most of the major rivers in Florida--the Kissimmee, St. Johns, Ocklawaha, Suwannee, Apalachicola, and Caloosahatchee--as well as Lake Okeechobee and Ft. Myers. Through past historical accounts and his own family s personal experiences, Bass sheds new light on Florida's steamboat saga."
In When Steamboats Reigned in Florida, Bob Bassexplores the impact of these vessels along with the stories of those who ran or established the...
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108,57 |
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Voyages, the Age of Engines: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume II, 1865-Present
ISBN: 9780813033051 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A two-volume anthology of source readings for maritime history courses "An indispensable resource for anyone interested in teaching American maritime history. This well-organized and edited collection of primary documents will significantly advance students' knowledge of the fundamental role the sea has played in our nation's past."--Christopher P. Magra, California State University at Northridge "The sources in these volumes vividly illustrate the rich maritime tradition that forms the core of American social, economic, political, military, and diplomatic development over two... A two-volume anthology of source readings for maritime history courses "An indispensable resource for anyone interested in teaching American ... |
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144,25 |
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Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal
ISBN: 9780299229405 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Realizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction site filled not only with mud and water but with interpretations, meanings, and social visions. Alexander Missal s Seaway to the Future unfolds a cultural history of the Panama Canal project, revealed in the texts and images of the era s policymakers and commentators. Observing its creation, journalists, travel writers, and officials interpreted the Canal and its environs as a perfect society under an efficient, authoritarian management...
Realizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction...
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149,59 |
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Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History
ISBN: 9781600374609 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner the SS Andrea Doria in 1956 is relived in this candid, heartrending account. Author Pierette Domenica Simpson, who, with her grandparents, survived the tragedy off the shoals of Nantucket, shares the human and technical aspects of what has become known as the greatest sea rescue in history. As only an eyewitness can do, the author presents survivors' recollections in dramatic vignettes that meticulously re-create a horrific event-one that could have been another Titanic. Both poor immigrants and...
One half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner the SS Andrea Doria in 1956 is relived in this cand...
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98,50 |
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When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
ISBN: 9780743280099 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the dark days of the Great Depression, thousands of weary souls escaped their bleak lives for a week of paradise aboard the Ward Line's glamorous cruise ship, the Morro Castle. It was the most famous passenger liner of its day, lightning fast, elegantly appointed. It was also a ticking time bomb. It was the summer of 1934. Two sailors joined the Morro Castle crew, one a teenager on his first job away from home, the other a dangerous psychopath. Within two months, they would witness the end of the party in a single night of death, killer storms, and catastrophic fire. And that was only...
During the dark days of the Great Depression, thousands of weary souls escaped their bleak lives for a week of paradise aboard the Ward Line's glamoro...
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98,50 |
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Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse
ISBN: 9780851158266 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Vikings were the master mariners and ship-builders of the middle ages: their success depended on these skills. Spectacular archaeological finds of whole or partial ships, from burial mounds or dredged from harbours, continue to give new and exciting evidence of their practical craftsmanship and urge to seek new shores. The nautical vocabulary of the Viking Age, however, has been surprisingly neglected - the last comprehensive study was published in 1912 and was heavily dependent on post-Viking Age sources. Far better contemporary sources from the later Viking Age are available to document...
The Vikings were the master mariners and ship-builders of the middle ages: their success depended on these skills. Spectacular archaeological finds of...
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507,73 |
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S. S. Savannah, the Elegant Steam Ship
ISBN: 9780820332154 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of a ship and her pioneer master, Moses Rogers, who had the idea of making the first transatlantic voyage in a steam-propelled vessel. His "laudable and meritorious experiment" marked one of the world's maritime epochs. The conception and building of the S. S. Savannah was guided by the engineering genius of Captain Rogers who, with Robert Fulton, was a leading exponent of steam in his day. The momentous voyage began in Savannah, Georgia, in 1819, and took the courageous crew to England, Sweden, and Russia. These were the elegant steam ship's times of triumph. Yet she... This is the story of a ship and her pioneer master, Moses Rogers, who had the idea of making the first transatlantic voyage in a steam-propelled ve... |
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183,80 |
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Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships
ISBN: 9780472033669 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships brings the maritime heritage of the Great Lakes to life, using the tragic story of the schooner Rouse Simmons as a porthole into the robust but often forgotten communities that thrived along Lake Michigan from the Civil War to World War I.Memorialized in songs, poems, fiction, and even a musical, the infamous ship that went down in a Thanksgiving storm while delivering Christmas trees to Chicago has long been shrouded in myth and legend. As a result, the larger story of the captain, crew, and affected communities has often been...
Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships brings the maritime heritage of the Great Lakes to life, using the tragic story of the schooner R...
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85,25 |
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