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Sailing Ship Elissa: Volume 76
ISBN: 9781603444125 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New in paperback with a new preface "Bixel's research is thorough and her writing style is engaging. This book will be of interest to both maritime historians and historic preservationists. . . . a welcome addition to the growing literature on Texas maritime history."-Southwestern Historical Quarterly " . . . a heartening story, well-illustrated with photos."-Houston Chronicle "Her story is beautifully told in words and pictures . . ."-Austin American-Statesman " . . . recommended both as an outstanding book-to-remember-her-by and as a surprisingly complete account of a quirky aspect of...
New in paperback with a new preface "Bixel's research is thorough and her writing style is engaging. This book will be of interest to both maritime hi...
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68,10 zł |
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The Big Ship: The Story of the S.S. United States
ISBN: 9781596527645 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The S.S. United States book is the first comprehensive work on the vessel in decades. This volume includes many rarely seen photographs from the liner's golden years to her forlorn and lonely twilight years. Follow Frank Braynard, the nation's leading maritime historian, and Robert Hudson Westover as they chronicle the life of the S.S. United States. The United States, which still holds the West-bound speed record on the North Atlantic, is the greatest ocean liner this country has ever built, and this book stands as a fitting tribute and celebration of her maiden voyage.The Big Ship: The...
The S.S. United States book is the first comprehensive work on the vessel in decades. This volume includes many rarely seen photographs from the liner...
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84,36 zł |
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SS Robin: The Restoration 2008 - 2010
ISBN: 9781456527129 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SS Robin is the world's oldest complete steamship. In 2008, Development Consultancy Kampfner Ltd, working with the SS Robin Trust, managed a unique restoration project: transforming this historic vessel and lifting her onto a new purpose-built floating pontoon. The book tells that story over two years of teamwork with a wide mix of partners and supporters. The result was a unique, creative approach to maritime conservation, and this photography book serves as a record of the endeavour and success of all involved.
SS Robin is the world's oldest complete steamship. In 2008, Development Consultancy Kampfner Ltd, working with the SS Robin Trust, managed a unique re...
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80,66 zł |
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101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic . . . But Didn't!
ISBN: 9780143119098 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction. In one hundred and one brief and engaging chapters, Tim Maltin, one of the foremost experts on the Titanic, reveals the truth behind the most common beliefs about the ship and the night it sank. From physics to photographs, lawsuits to love stories, Maltin doesn't miss one tidbit surrounding its history. Heavily researched and filled with detailed descriptions, quotes from... April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
People have an endless fascination with the Titani... |
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92,23 zł |
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Titanic Century: Media, Myth, and the Making of a Cultural Icon
ISBN: 9780313398155 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Titanic"'s fate is still very much in our collective consciousness. A catastrophe that was unimaginable at the time, now 100 years later it continues to provide lessons that we have not yet fully absorbed. And the debate continues regarding how the loss of life might have been averted--could, for example, the nearby ship, "Californian," have rescued everyone on board "Titanic"? The book examines the relationship between a momentous historical event, the media that have been involved in reporting and re-presenting it, and the subsequent transformation of the disaster into an... The "Titanic"'s fate is still very much in our collective consciousness. A catastrophe that was unimaginable at the time, now 100 years later it co... |
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256,20 zł |
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The Atlantic Transport Line, 1881-1931: A History with Details on All Ships
ISBN: 9780786461424 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1881, dynamic Baltimore businessman Bernard N. Baker established the Atlantic Transport Line, an American-owned but British-operated steamship company with service from London to New York that became famous for shipping expensive livestock and for carrying only first-class passengers. Although moderately sized, the company remained a significant presence in international shipping until a failure to recover from business disruptions during World War I forced its closure early in the Great Depression. This volume chronicles the history of the line and its absorption into J.P. Morgan's...
In 1881, dynamic Baltimore businessman Bernard N. Baker established the Atlantic Transport Line, an American-owned but British-operated steamship comp...
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302,21 zł |
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Sailing to the Far Horizon: The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship
ISBN: 9780299201944 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand's North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naive swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had...
The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand's North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to s...
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97,30 zł |
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Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came from
ISBN: 9780062107053 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An astonishing work." "A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom." It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a... "An astonishing work." "A book well worthy of marking the centenary... |
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103,72 zł |
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Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
ISBN: 9780306820984 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now, a century later, no other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends.
"Unsinkable" provides a fresh look at the Titanic's incredible story. Following the great ship from her conception to her fateful collision to the ambitious attempts to salvage her right up to the... Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic ...
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84,50 zł |
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Peary's Conquest of the North Pole and the SS Roosevelt: The Man and Ship Who Refused To Fail
ISBN: 9781466425200 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, USN, Retired, previous to his 1911 promotion to flag rank, spend 24 years of his life in Nicaragua, surveying a route for a transoceanic canal and during Arctic exploration, from 1885 to 1909, this Monograph will focus primarily on his last two efforts to discover the North Pole, namely his 1905 and 1908 adventures, during which he employed his new, specially, constructed ship the SS Roosevelt for the singular purpose of fulfilling his destiny-the Conquest of the North Pole.
While Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, USN, Retired, previous to his 1911 promotion to flag rank, spend 24 years of his life in Nicaragua, surveying a ro...
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242,11 zł |
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A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival
ISBN: 9781588382825 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Albert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through the tragedy at sea. Their lucky rescue aboard the Lifeboat 13 is told for the first time here. But the trip was only one part of a bigger nightmare. The Caldwells has been Presbyterian missionaries in Bangkok, Siam, but fled in what they described as a desperate journey around the world to save Sylvia's health. Fellow missionaries, however, believed that the couple had plotted to renege on their contract at financial loss to the church. Not even sinking Titanic ended the hunt for the Caldwells. A Rare Titanic...
Albert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through the tragedy at sea. Their lucky rescue aboard the Lifeboat 13 is ...
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95,89 zł |
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Know Your PT Boat
ISBN: 9781935700173 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The exploits of the U.S. Navy's 'Patrol Torpedo' or PT Boat crews became famous during WWII. Known by the Japanese as "devil boats," the little PTs landed big blows on the enemy, sinking numerous ships and supply barges. They also laid mines, carried out intelligence operations, and performed search and rescue operations among other tasks. While the most famous boat of the war was PT-109, commanded by future President John F. Kennedy, PT-73 also gained fame as the star of the TV show McHale's Navy starring Ernest Borgnine. Originally created in 1945 by the Bureau of Ships, "Know Your PT Boat"...
The exploits of the U.S. Navy's 'Patrol Torpedo' or PT Boat crews became famous during WWII. Known by the Japanese as "devil boats," the little PTs la...
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57,46 zł |
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The Trade Makers: Elder Dempster in West Africa, 1852-1972, 1973-1989
ISBN: 9780968128893 / Angielski / Miękka / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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204,91 zł |
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A biography of Lewis Morris, map-maker, duty collector and mineworks supervisor who was one of the foremost literary figures of 18th century Wales.
A biography of Lewis Morris, map-maker, duty collector and mineworks supervisor who was one of the foremost literary figures of 18th century Wales.
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40,94 zł |
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Buccaneers and Privateers: The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725
ISBN: 9781611493870 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe. Seeking to disrupt Spain's nearly unchecked empire-building and siphon off some of their wealth, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British adventurers--both legitimate and illegitimate--led numerous expeditions into the Caribbean and the Pacific. Many voyagers wrote accounts of their exploits, captivating readers with their tales of exotic places, shocking hardships and cruelties, and...
In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathe...
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415,04 zł |
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The Yankee Whaler
ISBN: 9780486268545 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -He went whaling prepared as no man had been before him, and he went with an eager and an open mind. He describes as no other author has done the multifarious duties of the cooper, the whalecraftsman, the rigger, the subtleties of boat gear and of stowage, the homely whims and prejudices of the most conservative and practical of men ... he has returned unsoured from his voyaging, and now lays his booty before us.- -- Robert Cushman Murphy, in the Introduction -He went whaling prepared as no man had been before him, and he went with an eager and an open mind. He describes as no other author has done the m... |
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95,89 zł |
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Touched By The Titanic
ISBN: 9781466444454 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic slipped below the waters of the Atlantic becoming one of the greatest maritime disasters of the 20th century. 68 years later, a young boy would learn about the lost liner while spending the day with his grandfather. This is the story of that day and the collection of memorabilia which would be amassed over the years, the unbreakable bond between a grandfather and grandson joined together by the interest in the unsinkable ship.
In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic slipped below the waters of the Atlantic becoming one of the greatest maritime disaste...
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161,41 zł |
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Titanic Myths, Titanic Truths: How A Series of Errors Caused History's Most Famous Maritime Disaster
ISBN: 9781456461751 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finally, a book that breaks through 100 years of myths surrounding the sinking of RMS Titanic to reveal that the ship was deliberately turned toward the iceberg, the damage was not necessarily fatal, and human error in a boiler room ultimately sank the ship. These are the startling conclusions of Captain David G. Brown, a licensed master mariner. Using a school bus analogy, he explains why historians have been blinded to the true nature of the accident and its consequences.
Finally, a book that breaks through 100 years of myths surrounding the sinking of RMS Titanic to reveal that the ship was deliberately turned toward t...
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80,66 zł |
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Expedition Whydah
ISBN: 9780060929718 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Captivating Account of the Golden Age of Piracy, the Search for Sunken Treasure, and the Business of Underwater Exploration Bored by his successful life and obsessed with a boyhood dream of lost pirate treasure, Barry Clifford began a quest for legendary pirate Black Sam Bellamy's ship Whydah, which had supposedly wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod more than two centuries ago. Ignoring claims that he was a fool and a dreamer, Clifford pressed on, until he unbelievable found the Whydah...and then the real story begins in a spellbinding story that will capture your... A Captivating Account of the Golden Age of Piracy, the Search for Sunken Treasure, and the Business of Underwater Exploration Bored by his su... |
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76,82 zł |
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The Titanic and the Indifferent Stranger: The Complete Story of the Titanic and the Californian
ISBN: 9781470061104 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1912, one man on the Earth was despised as a thousand-fold murderer. He was Stanley Lord, the Captain of the freighter Californian. Two courts of inquiries found that his ship had sat and watched the 'unsinkable' Titanic fire distress rockets and finally watched her slip under waves, while the Californian's Captain and sole wireless operator slept, and an impotent bridge crew pondered that 'a ship is not going to fire rockets at sea for nothing...it looked like a case of distress.'Failing to impress their suspicions on Lord, the crew stood and watched the strange rocket-firer...
In the summer of 1912, one man on the Earth was despised as a thousand-fold murderer. He was Stanley Lord, the Captain of the freighter Californian. T...
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90,67 zł |
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