PublicAffairs, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Discover the secret history of America's submarine warfare in this fast-paced and deeply researched chronicle of adventure and intrigue during the Cold War that reads like a spy thriller. Blind Man's Bluff is an exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the.....
William Morrow Paperbacks, June 2011. Trade Paperback. Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is.....
DK, January 2021. Trade Paperback. The ultimate visual guide to all types of knots. Avoid getting yourself into a tangle by following detailed step-by-step instructions that show you how to tie and untie more than 100 knots. Whichever knotty scenario you find yourself in, from in your own garden, to.....
Riverhead Books, May 2009. Trade Paperback. A marvelous, compelling tale(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod. Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest fishing port, is defined by the culture of commercial fishing. But the threat of over-fishing, combined with climate change and pollution, is endangering.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, March 2016. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE - A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship.....
Sperry Gyroscope Company, 1944. Hardcover.
W.W. Norton, May 1997. Hardcover. In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester, Massachusetts-based swordfishing boat the Andrea Gail, which vanished with all six crew.....
Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1954. Trade Paperback. 79 pages. The steamer sunk on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 1853.
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Old Whalers Festival, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 92 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Festival booklet. Illustrated in black-and-white. Steinbeck is listed as Honorary Chairman. First edition (first printing). Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Modern Library, 1999. Trade Paperback. In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts.....
Warner/Madison Press Book, 1987. Trade Paperback.
Binford & Mort, Publishers, 1971. Hardcover.
Basic Books, 2009. Hardcover. The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition. In the winter.....
Privately printed by C. F. Braun & Co., 1957. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 161 pages. Pierre Loti is the pseudonym of Julien Viaud. First edition thus. Near fine copy in marbled paper over boards and blue leather covers with bright gilt lettering on spine. Spine with 4 raised bands.
Easton Press, 1987. Hardcover.
Ward Ritchie Press, 1965. Hardcover.
Uitgeverij de Branding, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 151 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Dover Publications, Inc., 1965. Trade Paperback. The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas-the first person to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly. First published in 1900, Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable--and entertaining--travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone.....
Sailors' Union of the Pacific, AFL-CIO. Distributed by Transaction Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 157 pages. Numerous sepia-toned photographs. 12.25 x 9.25 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and insignia on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket.....
Penguin Classics, May 2001. Trade Paperback. The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the.....
T. Whitehorn, 1860. Hardcover. 86 pages, New and Corrected Edition. British Library gives 1860 as publication date. Book has no date of publication. New and corrected edition. Covers are loose, held to text by string binding, Hinges are broken. Covers are brown cloth worn and frayed. Front endpaper and front.....
Palgrave Macmillan, February 2000. Hardcover. Gladiator one minute, galley slave the next. Danger, abuse, excitement and tedium, these were the lot of open boat whalemen in the South Seas for two centuries. The Nantucketers, the first and the best, taught the world how whaling should be done. "Ahab's Trade" tracks.....
Van Nostrand Reinhold, January 1970. Hardcover.
William Morrow & Co, October 1987. Hardcover.
Rizzoli, October 1992. Hardcover.