A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue
ISBN: 9781451683349 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue-- "an edge-of-your-seat chronicle of what happens when a sailboat goes up against a fierce storm in the heart of the Gulf Stream" (The Providence Journal). Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on to the raft are three men: a Canadian, a Brit, and their captain, JP de Lutz, a dual citizen of the United States and France. Their capsized forty-seven-foot sailboat has disappeared below the...
A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, survival, and daring rescue-- "an edge-of-your-seat chronicle of what happens when a s...
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73,19 zł |
Oceans Odyssey 3. the Deep-Sea Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida: A Merchant Vessel from Spain's 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet
ISBN: 9781782971481 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa, Florida, commenced the world's first robotic archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida. At a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artefacts were recovered using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle. The wreck is interpreted as the Buen JesUs y Nuestra SeNora del Rosario, a small Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated merchant vessel from the 1622 Tierra Firme fleet returning to Seville from Venezuela's Pearl Coast when lost in a hurricane. Oceans Odyssey 3 introduces the shipwreck and its artefact...
In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa, Florida, commenced the world's first robotic archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south o...
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151,13 zł |
Model Maker's Workshop - Being No. 4 of the New Model Maker Series of Practical Handbooks Covering Every Phase of Model Building and Design - With 94
ISBN: 9781473303614 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the fourth volume of the New Model Maker series, covering every phase of model building and design. Beautifully illustrated and full of invaluable tips, this handbook is highly recommended for those with an interest in model making and general handicraft. Contents include: Model Making At Home, Workshop Layout for General Model Making, Woodworking Tools, General Considerations on their Choice, Maintenance, and Use, Metal-working Tools, The Lathe, Materials, Home-made Appliances, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are...
This book is the fourth volume of the New Model Maker series, covering every phase of model building and design. Beautifully illustrated and full of i...
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77,10 zł |
Model Racing Yachts - Being No. 6 of the New Model Maker Series of Practical Handbooks Covering Every Phase of Model Building and Design - With 90 Ill
ISBN: 9781473303621 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book is a complete guide to build, rig, and sail self-acting model yachts. With simple, step-by-step instructions and a wealth of handy tips, this profusely illustrated handbook constitutes a must-have for the novice model yachtsman, and would make for a fantastic addition collections of allied literature. Contents include: Fundamental Requirements, Sailing the Model, Sailing Terms, Names of Model Yacht Parts, How to Adjust the Sails, Typical Designs, Swallows, Rib and Plank Building, How to Build the 48-inch Racing Model 'Spindrift', Building a Fully-Rigged Scale Model Yacht,...
This vintage book is a complete guide to build, rig, and sail self-acting model yachts. With simple, step-by-step instructions and a wealth of handy t...
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106,03 zł |
The Art of Boat Names: Inspiring Ideas for Names and Designs
ISBN: 9780071591423 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shouldn't your boat's name look as distinctive as your boat? A well-chosen and well-designed name on a transom or topsides is the finishing touch and creates the ultimate first impression for any boat. Your boat's name is the single most highly visible clue to your nautical interests and sensibilities. Whether the name is whimsical (Y-Knot), classical (Terpsichore), irreverent (Aquaholic), mythical (Valkyrie), sly (For Sail), romantic (Wayfarer), or full of attitude (Bite Me), it won't communicate your message without an... Shouldn't your boat's name look as distinctive as your boat? A well-chosen and well-designed name on a transom or topsides is the fin... |
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129,15 zł |
Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery
ISBN: 9780300170283 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery--so common, in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today's organizations are much quieter, more social and intellectual, and far less violent, yet the coordinated defiance of authority springs from dissatisfactions very similar to those of long-ago shipboard crews. This highly original book mines seafaring logs and other archives of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century ship captains and discovers instructive lessons for today's leaders facing...
Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery--so common, in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill...
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440,24 zł |
England's Shipwreck Heritage: From Logboats to U-Boats
ISBN: 9781848020443 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do characters as diverse as Alfred the Great, the architect Sir Christopher Wren, diarist Samuel Pepys and the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins have in common? All had some involvement in shipwrecks: in causing, recording or salvaging them. This book examines a variety of wrecks from logboats, Roman galleys and medieval cogs to East Indiamen, grand ocean liners, fishing boats and warships - all are woven into the history of shipwrecks along the coastline of England and in her territorial waters. Wrecks are not just physically embedded in this marine landscape - they are also an...
What do characters as diverse as Alfred the Great, the architect Sir Christopher Wren, diarist Samuel Pepys and the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopki...
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318,15 zł |
ShipCraft 19: County Class Cruisers
ISBN: 9781848321274 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modeling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on...
The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book ta...
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77,22 zł |
Wrecked in Yellowstone: Greed, Obsession and the Untold Story of Yellowstone's Most Infamous Shipwreck
ISBN: 9781606390948 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,89 zł |
Schuylkill Canal
ISBN: 9781531674557 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1825, the Schuylkill Navigation Company completed a waterway of 108 miles, linking Port Carbon to Philadelphia. The waterway, known as the Schuylkill Navigation but commonly referred to today as the Schuylkill Canal, consisted of a system of interconnected canals (often called reaches), locks, and slack-water pools to transport anthracite coal. Before that time, Philadelphia depended on the import of coal from Europe. The Schuylkill Canal was operational until 1931, around the time of the collapse of commercial traffic in the navigation. Only two watered stretches of the canal remain...
In 1825, the Schuylkill Navigation Company completed a waterway of 108 miles, linking Port Carbon to Philadelphia. The waterway, known as the Schuylki...
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137,72 zł |
Pirate and Buccaneer Doctors (Reprint Booklet)
ISBN: 9781616461867 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,97 zł |
Mainers on the Titanic
ISBN: 9781608933044 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mainers on the Titanic traces the stories of passengers on that fateful ship who had ties to Maine. Many of them were wealthy summer visitors to Bar Harbor, but there were other residents of state aboard as well. Their tales are retold, along with what was occurring in the state at the time. Meticulously researched, this book reveals the agonizing day-to-day wait of Mainers for news of what really happened and tells the stories of Maine passengers from their boarding to the sinking and rescue, and, for those who survived, of their final coming ashore in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's a unique and...
Mainers on the Titanic traces the stories of passengers on that fateful ship who had ties to Maine. Many of them were wealthy summer visitors to Bar H...
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63,58 zł |
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
ISBN: 9780544313279 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats. Without charts, alone on the open seas, and thousands of miles from any known land, the sailors began their terrifying journey of survival. Ninety days later, after much suffering and death by starvation, intense heat, and dehydration, only eight men survived to reach land. One of them was Owen Chase, first mate of the ill-fated ship, whose...
On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her cr...
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129,15 zł |
With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
ISBN: 9780801452338 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic... Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Br... |
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236,75 zł |
The Tragedy of the Royal Tar: The 1836 Circus Steamship Fire
ISBN: 9781608933570 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maine's Penobscot Bay. On board was a small circus menagerie returning to Boston from a summer-long tour of the Canadian Maritimes. Plagued by gale-force winds and rough seas, the usual overnight trip from Saint John, New Brunswick, stretched out to four days and, on the fourth day, disaster struck off the island of Vinalhaven. Thirty-two people and all of the circus animals perished in the tragedy. Mark Warner explores the events leading up to that fateful day. Beginning with the construction of the Royal Tar, he traces the...
On October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maine's Penobscot Bay. On board was a small circus menagerie returning to Boston f...
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52,97 zł |
Anciens peuplements littoraux et relations Homme/Milieu sur les côtes de l'Europe Atlantique/Ancient Maritime Communities and the Relationship between
ISBN: 9781407311913 / Angielski / Miękka / 689 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by Marie-Yvane Daire, Catherine Dupont, Anna Baudry, Cyrille Billard, Jean-Marc Large, Laurent Lespez, Eric Normand and Chris Scarre with the collaboration of Francis Bertin, ChloE Martin and Kate Sharpe This book presents the proceedings of the International conference 'HOMER 2011' (Ancient maritime communities and the relationship between people and environment along the European Atlantic coasts) held at the Palais des Arts et des CongrEs, Vannes (France) between 28 September and 1 October 2011. This event was the first international scientific meeting devoted to the... Edited by Marie-Yvane Daire, Catherine Dupont, Anna Baudry, Cyrille Billard, Jean-Marc Large, Laurent Lespez, Eric Normand and Chris Scarre with th... |
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782,12 zł |
Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30
ISBN: 9781620971093 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russia s oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013 thirty men and women from eighteen countries the crew of Greenpeace s Arctic Sunrise decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic.
Thrown together by a common cause, they are determined to stop Putin and the oligarchs. But their protest is met with brutal force as Putin s commandos seize the Arctic Sunrise. Held under armed guard by masked men, they are charged with piracy and face fifteen years in Russia s nightmarish prison system. Ben Stewart who spearheaded the... Russia s oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013 thirty men and women from eighteen countries the crew of Greenpeace s Arct...
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116,03 zł |
Argonauts of the Stone Age: Early Maritime Activity from the First Migrations from Africa to the End of the Neolithic
ISBN: 9781784911430 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an important book. Too often in the past archaeologists have ignored or underestimated sea travel in early prehistory but the evidence has been growing and now it is presented to us in full in this thought provoking study. No longer can those interested in the human achievement neglect to take into account the astonishing achievements of our palaeolithic, mesolithic and neolithic ancestors.
This book gives a full account of stone age seafaring presenting the archaeological evidence in the context of the changing world environment and uses ethnographic sources to broaden the... This is an important book. Too often in the past archaeologists have ignored or underestimated sea travel in early prehistory but the evidence has bee...
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190,89 zł |
The Sailing Frigate: A History in Ship Models
ISBN: 9781848322950 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world. Many of the models are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the Royal Navy or the shipbuilders themselves, ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. Now available in...
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world. Many of the models are official, contempora...
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87,52 zł |
The Unfortunate Captain Peirce
ISBN: 9781906978327 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first biography of Richard Peirce, captain in the service of the East India Company, and account of the wreck of his ship, the Halsewell, off Dorset in 1786. He drowned, along with members of his family, and the loss became a tragic cause celebre, recorded in literature and art
The first biography of Richard Peirce, captain in the service of the East India Company, and account of the wreck of his ship, the Halsewell, off Dors...
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120,54 zł |