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Lake George Shipwrecks and Sunken History
ISBN: 9781540205759 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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147,76 zł |
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The Story of the American Merchant Marine
ISBN: 9781410205988 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A well-researched overview by the author of The Story of the New England Whalers, John R. Spears, describing the growth of the U.S. Merchant marine from the first commercial vessel in 1607 through the Revolution, steam, privateering and pirates, packets and clippers, to the immediate pre-WWI period.
A well-researched overview by the author of The Story of the New England Whalers, John R. Spears, describing the growth of the U.S. Merchant marine fr...
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170,16 zł |
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San Francisco's Little Boat That Could
ISBN: 9781418401023 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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206,91 zł |
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Record Breakers of the North Atlantic: Blue Riband Liners 1838-1952
ISBN: 9781574883282 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the first paddle steamers to the "Titanic" and the "United States," the Blue Riband liners have captured the public imagination like no other form of transportation
From the first paddle steamers to the "Titanic" and the "United States," the Blue Riband liners have captured the public imagination like no other for...
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161,72 zł |
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Sandbars and Sternwheelers: Steam Navigation on the Brazos
ISBN: 9781585440580 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nature never intended the Brazos River for navigation, but before the coming of the railroads Brazos steamboats were a necessary, if always erratic, form of transport. And there were men to meet the challenge. One captain, heedless of shallows, shoals, snags, and falls, boasted that he could tap a keg and run a boat four miles on the suds. Based on rich archival sources, this authoritative and entertaining book tells of the men and boats that braved the river from the earliest days to the late 1890s.
Steamboat captains and plantation aristocrats, business tycoons and empire builders, mud... Nature never intended the Brazos River for navigation, but before the coming of the railroads Brazos steamboats were a necessary, if always erratic, f...
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95,41 zł |
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Wangka: Austronesian Canoe Origins
ISBN: 9781585440863 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Were the Austronesians hapless travelers on fragile craft, drifted at the mercy of the waves to the far-flung islands of the Pacific? Or were they intrepid seafarers whose exploratory voyages covered much of the great ocean on seaworthy canoes capable of being sailed against the wind? This book addresses these questions in one of the most thorough discussions of Austronesian sailing canoes ever attempted.
The canoes themselves are described in detail, and similarities and differences in hull configuration, sails, and sailing techniques are noted. A review of earlier writings on the canoes... Were the Austronesians hapless travelers on fragile craft, drifted at the mercy of the waves to the far-flung islands of the Pacific? Or were they int...
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103,20 zł |
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Until the Sea Shall Free Them : Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine
ISBN: 9781591142843 / Angielski / Miękka / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1983 the Marine Electric, a -reconditioned- World War II vessel, was on a routine voyage thirty miles off the East Coast of the United States when disaster struck: The old coal carrier sank in the frigid forty-foot waves and subzero winds of the Atlantic, and of the thirty-four men aboard, only three survived. Until the Sea Shall Free Them recounts in compelling detail the wreck of the Marine Electric and the legal drama that unfolded in its wake--a lawsuit that led to vital reforms in the laws regarding the safety of ships.
In 1983 the Marine Electric, a -reconditioned- World War II vessel, was on a routine voyage thirty miles off the East Coast of the United States when ...
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125,84 zł |
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Lighthouses and Keepers: The U.S. Lighthouse Service and its Legacy
ISBN: 9781591146261 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the East Coast to the West Coast, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, this handsome book helps explain the lure of lighthouses in the United States. Among the most recognized structures of the maritime world, these lonely sentinels by the sea have long been the subject of paintings and photographs. Today they continue to capture public imagination as Americans flock to their sites for visits and volunteer to help preserve these endangered structures. This book covers all aspects of the subject, not only lighthouses and lightships but buoys, buoy tenders, fog...
From the East Coast to the West Coast, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, this handsome book helps explain the lure of lighth...
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125,84 zł |
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Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle
ISBN: 9781540210500 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,06 zł |
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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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260,85 zł |
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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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108,45 zł |
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Ocean Transportation
ISBN: 9781893122451 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,79 zł |
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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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82,37 zł |
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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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289,63 zł |
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Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935
ISBN: 9780870623554 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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280,16 zł |
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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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119,54 zł |
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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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108,45 zł |
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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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390,87 zł |
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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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228,59 zł |
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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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219,00 zł |
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