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21 The Final Unfinished Voyage Of Jack Aubrey: The Unfinished Twenty First Novel In The Aubrey/maturin Seriesby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039306025X (0-393-06025-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Angel's Commandby Brian Jacques, David ElliotISBN 0441011519 (0-441-01151-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Angel's Command'Book summary:The new Castaways novel comes alive-Redwall fashion-with a magnificent romp on the sea, and another in the robber-filled mountains of Spain! Ben and Ned, the boy and dog who were sent on an angel's errand in Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, find themselves on board a Frenchman's pirate ship, pursued by not one but two ships-an English privateer and a Spanish buccaneer. They finally escape into the Pyrenees, only to stumble into an even more challenging adventure that takes them into very heart of the mountains, where they-and their new companions, a painter and a gypsy girl-must face the most evil robber of them all: the legendary Maguda Razan.
This is Jacques at his swashbuckling best. His editor says: This is as good as it gets-as good as Redwall! [via]-
Bandits and Privateers of Canadaby Harold Horwood, Edward ButtsISBN 0385251106 (0-385-25110-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Before Columbus: The New History of Celtic, Phoenician, Viking, Black African, and Asian Contacts and Impacts in the Americas before 1492by Samuel Davey MarbleISBN 0498023702 (0-498-02370-2)
Hardcover, A. S. Barnes
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750by Marcus RedikerISBN 0521303427 (0-521-30342-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750'Book summary:The common seaman and the pirate in the age of sail are romantic historical figures who occupy a special place in the popular culture of the modern age. And yet in many ways, these daring men remain little known to us. Like most other poor working people of the past, they left few first-hand accounts of their lives. But their lives are not beyond recovery. In this book, Marcus Rediker uses a huge array of historical sources (court records, diaries, travel accounts, and many others) to reconstruct the social cultural world of the Anglo-American seamen and pirates who sailed the seas in the first half of the eighteenth century. Rediker tours the sailor's North Atlantic, following seamen and their ships along the pulsing routes of trade and into rowdy port towns. He recreates life along the waterfront, where seafaring men from around the world crowded into the sailortown and its brothels, alehouses, street brawls, and city jail. His study explores the natural terror that inevitably shaped the existence of those who plied the forbidding oceans of the globe in small, brittle wooden vessels. It also treats the man-made terror--the harsh discipline, brutal floggings, and grisly hangings--that was a central fact of life at sea. Rediker surveys the commonplaces of the maritime world: the monotonous rounds of daily labor, the negotiations of wage contracts, and the bawdy singing, dancing, and tale telling that were a part of every voyage. He also analyzes the dramatic moments of the sailor's existence, as Jack Tar battled wind and water during a slashing storm, as he stood by his "brother tars" in a mutiny or a stike, and as he risked his neck by joining a band of outlaws beneath the Jolly Roger, the notorious pirate flag. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seaman's experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis the free wage labor, and the growth of an international working class. These epic themes were intimately bound up with everyday hopes and fears of the common seamen. [via]
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750by Marcus Buford RedikerISBN 0521379830 (0-521-37983-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Billy Budd and Other Talesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0451522370 (0-451-52237-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Billy Budd, SailorISBN 0582342996 (0-582-34299-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Blue at the Mizzenby Patrick O'BrianISBN 039332107X (0-393-32107-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue at the Mizzen'Book summary:Almost three decades after commencing his maritime epic with Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian is still at it. The 20th episode, Blue at the Mizzen, is another swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, complete with romantic escapades from smoggy London to Sierra Leone, diplomacy, espionage, the intricacies of warfare, and imperial brinksmanship. As always, these events are bound up in the ongoing friendship between two officers of the Royal Navy. Jack Aubrey is the naval captain, bold yet compassionate, innovative yet cautious, as fearless in war as he is bumbling in affairs of the heart and household. His boon companion Stephen Maturin is the ship's surgeon--and additionally a spy for the British government, a wealthy Catalonian aristocrat, a doting Irish father, and an avid naturalist.
That may sound like a lot to keep track of. However, it's not necessary to carry around a scorecard or ship's roster while reading Blue at the Mizzen. The ostensible issue is whether Jack will finally be promoted to Admiral of the Blue. But long before he hears any word from the Napoleonic era's equivalent of Personnel, he loses half his crew to desertion, his ship undergoes a disastrous collision, and the entire company comes close to perishing in the ice-choked seas off Cape Horn. Meanwhile, the widowed Maturin issues a surprising proposal of marriage to a beautiful, mud-bespattered fellow naturalist while trekking through an African mangrove swamp. (The two lovebirds happen to be searching for a rare variant of Caprimulgus longipennis, the long-tailed nightjar, which they hope to surprise in full mating plumage.)
Still, this is hardly a plot-driven novel. O'Brian takes time to get anywhere, and invariably enjoys the journey more than the arrival. So even as we get constant hints of the climax to come--Jack's spectacular naval action on behalf of the infant Republic of Chile--we don't mind hearing about the nuances of shipboard existence or the secret life of the white-faced tree duck. We're treated, for example, to this snippet about managed care, circa 1816:
Poll, Maggie and a horse-leech from the starboard watch have been administering enemas to the many, many cases of gross surfeit that have now replaced the frostbites, torsions, and debility of the recent past, the very recent past. Strong, fresh, seal-meat has not its equal for upsetting the seaman's metabolism: he is much better kept on biscuits, Essex cheese, and a very little well-seethed salt pork--kept on short commons.
And we're grateful! We can only hope that the elderly author will favor us with at least one more novel, so that his avid followers can avoid their own form of short commons. Life without Aubrey and Maturin would be a deprivation indeed. --Andrew Himes [via]
Britain and the Western Seawaysby E.G. BowenISBN 0500020760 (0-500-02076-0)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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The Caine Mutinyby Herman WoukISBN 0385040539 (0-385-04053-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Close Quartersby William GoldingISBN 0571147798 (0-571-14779-8)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber
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The Commodoreby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393314596 (0-393-31459-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Commodore'Book summary:The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written."
Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes.
Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent.
The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.
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Commodore Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0523421087 (0-523-42108-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Cruel Seaby Nicholas MonsarratISBN 0553271288 (0-553-27128-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Cruise of the Snarkby Jack LondonISBN 0486412482 (0-486-41248-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Discovery of the Titanicby Rick Archbold, Robert D. Ballard, Ken MarschallISBN 0446389129 (0-446-38912-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discovery of the Titanic'Book summary:As Woods Hole oceanographer Robert Ballard demonstrates in his absorbing, profusely illustrated book about his years-long hunt for the wreck of the Titanic, science isn't all that different from Hollywood. Just as a Hollywood type--say, the director whose quest to make the world's most expensive film is chronicled in Paula Parisi's Titanic and the Making of James Cameron--must use the cachet of his studio connections to raise cash, a Woods Hole scientist must use that eminent institution's reputation to win financing for his or her projects. Like the movie that sprang from the finding of the wreck, Ballard's scientific exploration is a tale of triumph against long odds. He's also got some good historical data on the drama of the sinking. Here are a few ear-witness accounts of the moment of the iceberg's impact on the Titanic: "A disquieting ripping sound like a piece of cloth"; "A thousand marbles"; "As though somebody had drawn a giant finger along the side of the ship." Ballard quotes the most precise description of the fatal instant, given by colorful Second Officer Lightoller: "Not that it was by any means a violent concussion, but just a distinct and unpleasant break in the monotony of her motion." Ballard's book helps you get the feeling of climbing aboard and being there for that distinctly unpleasant moment. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Discovery of the Titanic: Exploring the Greatest of All Lost Shipsby Rick Archbold, Robert D. BallardISBN 0446513857 (0-446-51385-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discovery of the Titanic: Exploring the Greatest of All Lost Ships'Book summary:An updated edition, with 8 new pages of material, of the 1987 title which recounts the author's discovery and exploration of the Titanic 75 years after it sank in the North Atlantic. Dr Robert Ballard is an oceanographer who has worked on over 50 deep sea expeditions. [via]
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Enduranceby Alfred LansingISBN 0380006707 (0-380-00670-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endurance'Book summary:You can't really fail with a book about the Endurance. Although Ernest Shackleton's attempt to make the first Trans-Antarctic crossing barely made it out of base camp, his expedition has gone into the history books as one of the great epics of polar travel. Endurance left England in August 1914 and reached the pack-ice off Antarctica in January the following year. It sank in November, crushed by the weight of the ice, leaving Shackleton and his 27 men stranded in one of the most desolate areas of the world with no hope of rescue. Undaunted, Shackleton led his team to the edge of the ice, dragging three open life-boats that had been salvaged from the Endurance every step of the way. They then sailed to Elephant Island, a remote uninhabited outcrop of rock, where they lived off penguins and seagull. By April 1916, Shackleton realised there was no chance of them being spotted by a passing ship and he and five men set sail in the open-decked 20-foot boat, the James Caird, across 650 miles of the stormiest seas of the southern oceans for South Georgia. After narrowly surviving being shipwrecked on the reefs surrounding the western coast of South Georgia, Shackleton then proceeded to make the first-ever crossing of the mountainous island before reaching the sanctuary of the whaling station at Stromness. And it was Shackleton, in person, who led the rescue mission to Elephant Island to pick up the rest of his men. Miraculously, all 28 men survived.
Alfred Lansing's book, first published in 1957, tells it as it was. He draws heavily on the diaries and other first-person memoirs of those involved, and he writes with both style and pace. As such it is the classic tale of derring-do. What Lansing misses, though, is the social context. He provides little sense of history; in August 1914, when the Endurance left England, World War One was starting. By the time he returned home two years later, thousands of young men of his generation were lying dead on the battlefields of the Somme. The contrast is almost unbearable but Lansing makes nothing of it. Similarly he does not explain how someone like Scott, whose South Pole expedition several years earlier had been an unmitigated disaster of incompetence and bad planning, should go down in British history as one of our all-time heroes, while Shackleton, whose exploits were indeed truly heroic, has lived for so long in Scott's shadow. --John Crace [via]
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The Golden Rendezvousby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0449214230 (0-449-21423-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Guns of Navaroneby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0449141713 (0-449-14171-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns of Navarone'Book summary:An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death. [via]
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The Guns of Navarone: Force 10 from Navaroneby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0517206404 (0-517-20640-4)
Hardcover, Gramercy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guns of Navarone: Force 10 from Navarone'Book summary:The Guns of Navarone and its three sequels, in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions, together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book . THE GUNS OF NAVARONE Mallory, Miller and Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their mission: to silence the impregnable guns set in the tall cliffs of Navarone. On their success or failure rests one of the most critical offensives of the Second World War. FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, the three Navarone heroes are parachuted into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of partisans and fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden even from their own allies. [via]
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H.m.s. Ulyssesby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0449129292 (0-449-12929-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'H. M. S. Ulysses'Book summary:The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense - an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine Mutiny and The Cruel Sea as one of the classic novels of the navy at war. It is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk - a voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance, crippled by enemy attack and the bitter cold of the Arctic. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0451526570 (0-451-52657-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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The Hornblower Companionby C. S. ForesterISBN 0523254407 (0-523-25440-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Hundred Daysby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393319792 (0-393-31979-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Days'Book summary:The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-spymaster Stephen Maturin--to stop Napoleon in his tracks. How? For starters, Aubrey and his squadron have been dispatched to the Adriatic coast, to keep Bonapartist shipbuilders from beefing up the French navy. Meanwhile, one Sheik Ibn Hazm is fomenting an Islamic uprising against the Allies. The only way to halt this maneuver is to intercept the sheik's shipment of gold--because in the Napoleonic era, as in our own, even the most ardent of mercenaries requires a salary.
The Hundred Days is the 19th (and, we are told, the penultimate) installment of O'Brian's epic. Like many of its predecessors, it features a fairly swashbuckling plot, complete with cannon fire, exotic disguises, and Aubrey's suspenseful, slow-motion pursuit of an Algerian xebek. Yet it never turns into a mere exercise in Hornblowerism. Partly this is due to O'Brian's delicate touch with character--the relationship between extroverted Aubrey and introverted Maturin has deepened with each book, and even Aubrey's reunion with his childhood companion Queenie Keith is full of novelistic nuance: "They sat smiling at one another. An odd pair: handsome creatures both, but they might have been of the same sex or neither." Nor does the author focus too exclusively on his dynamic duo. Indeed, The Hundred Days is very much a chronicle of a floating community, which Maturin describes as "his own village, his own ship's company, that complex entity so much more easily sensed than described: part of his natural habitat."
Finally, O'Brian shows his usual expertise in balancing the great events with the most minuscule ones. Other authors have written about battles at sea, and still others have recorded the rapid rise and fall of Napoleon's fortunes after his escape from confinement. But who else would give equal time--and an equal charge of delight--to Maturin's discovery of an anomalous nuthatch? --James Marcus [via]
In Search of Robinson Crusoeby Timothy SeverinISBN 0465076998 (0-465-07699-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Island at the Top of the Worldby I. CameronISBN 0380001519 (0-380-00151-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Islands in the Streamby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0553250078 (0-553-25007-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The King's Privateerby Dewey LambdinISBN 0449224511 (0-449-22451-1)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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The Last Grain Raceby Eric NewbyISBN 0586051171 (0-586-05117-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hourby James HornfischerISBN 0553381482 (0-553-38148-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lobscouse & Spotted Dogby Anne Chotzinoff Grossman, Lisa Grossman ThomasISBN 0393320944 (0-393-32094-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Lord of the Deepby Graham SalisburyISBN 0440229111 (0-440-22911-1)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Deep'Book summary:Thirteen-year-old Mikey Donovan has nothing but admiration for his stepfather, Bill. An accomplished charter fisherman who works in and around the Hawaiian islands, Bill is teaching Mikey the ins and outs of his boat, the Crystal-C, and Mikey is soaking up Bill's nautical know-how faster than a sea sponge. "Lord of the deep. It was kind of a joke, but that's what Mikey called him, because as far as he was concerned, Bill was the best deep-sea charter-fishing skipper there was." But what Mikey painfully discovers is that someone put on such a high pedestal has a long way to fall. When two boorish game fisherman charter the Crystal-C, their surliness and dishonesty force Bill to make some uncomfortable decisions that shake Mikey's faith in him. Over the course of two days, Mikey is taught the meaning of character and conscience by his very human stepfather, a ferocious 90-pound mahi-mahi, and an insightful drawing by a wise-beyond-her-years artist. And lest you think this fish tale sounds too weighted down in morality and matters of the heart, just try not to gasp aloud at the splendidly written struggles between man and marlin. Like the fish themselves, they jump right off the page.
Lord of the Deep isn't just about deep-sea fishing, it's about deep thinking and even deeper feelings. Veteran young adult author Graham Salisbury has written a masterful tale that astutely illustrates that almost indecipherable point in adolescence when a boy becomes a man. Heartily recommended. (Ages 10 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Mad Shipby Robin HobbISBN 0553575643 (0-553-57564-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mad Ship'Book summary:High heroic fantasy has rarely paid enough attention to ships and sailors, the lifeblood, after all, of trade and survival in a non-technological world. In her Liveship Traders series, Robin Hobb more than makes up for this with a sequence in which economic survival is the principal objective of the merchant family, the Vestrits, who provide most of her viewpoint characters. The Mad Ship takes up their adventures where Ship of Magic left off, with young would-be priest Wintrow the captive of the pirate Kennit and bonded to the living figurehead of the family ship Vivacia; and his sister Malta caught up in the affairs of the changeling traders of the Rain Wild. Their aunt Althea, who feels she should have had command of Vivacia, is off having adventures as a sailor, and the mysterious Amber is trying to heal and repair the shattered mad hulk Paragon, who killed his crew and lies abandoned in the sand dunes. All this and war and conspiracy too--Hobb gives us a rich portrait of a world and a family in turmoil and raises some interesting questions about what it is to be used and make use of. --Roz Kaveney [via]
Mr. Midshipman Easyby Frederick MarryatISBN 0451527968 (0-451-52796-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty: Library Editionby William BlighISBN 0451524225 (0-451-52422-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstockby Thomas Farel HeffernanISBN 0393041638 (0-393-04163-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock'Book summary:Thomas Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe is the tale of 19th-century psychopathy on the high seas. In 1824, to satisfy a long-held dream of creating a desert island kingdom, Samuel Comstock, of Nantucket and New York City, led a ghastly mutiny aboard a whaler in the South Seas. Within days, Comstock, who had begun establishing his monarchy in the Marshall Islands, was murdered by his fellow mutineers. Some of the remaining seamen returned to America; others were butchered by Marshallese, and two were held in benign captivity by the natives for 21 months. Heffernan's account of the mutiny is oddly brief. The bulk of his narrative traces Comstock's inexplicably bizarre pre-mutiny life and the post-mutiny existence of the two marooned sailors. Though the self-consciously artful prose too often interferes with the primary narrative--as do the many tangential historical asides--the book does contain some haunting and macabre moments. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Northwest Passageby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0385043317 (0-385-04331-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Northwest Passageby Kenneth RobertsISBN 0449213838 (0-449-21383-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northwest Passage'Book summary:This classic novel follows the career of Major Rogers, whose incredible exploits during the French and Indian Wars are told through Langdon Towne, an artist and Harvard student who flees trouble to join the army. [via]
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On the Bottom: The Raising of the U. S. Navy Submarine S-51by E. EllsbergISBN 0451211510 (0-451-21151-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Red Storm Risingby Tom ClancyISBN 042510107X (0-425-10107-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Storm Rising'Book summary:Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle it out on land, sea, and air for the ultimate global control. A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. It's a story you will never forget.
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Sailing Alone Around the Worldby Joshua SlocumISBN 0486203263 (0-486-20326-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Scales of Goldby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0375704809 (0-375-70480-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scales of Gold'Book summary:Eager to expand his commercial empire, ambitious merchant banker Nicholas van der Poele travels to Africa, followed by Gelis van Borselen, a determined young woman who blames Nicholas for her sister's death. 12,500 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. [via]
The Sea Around Usby Rachel L. CarsonISBN 0451624831 (0-451-62483-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Sea of Ice : The Wreck of the Enduranceby Monica Kulling, John EdensISBN 0375802134 (0-375-80213-4)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea of Ice : The Wreck of the Endurance'Book summary:In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set out with his crew aboard the ship the Endurance. He wanted to sail to Antarctica, but 100 miles from the South Pole, the Endurance became trapped in a sea of ice. Against all odds, Shackleton undertook a journey that led to the rescue of this crew after almost two years of nail-biting survival. Based on a true story!
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The Sea Voyage Narrativeby Robert FoulkeISBN 0415938945 (0-415-93894-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIby Robert KursonISBN 0375760989 (0-375-76098-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Shark Attackby H. David BaldridgeISBN 0425039889 (0-425-03988-9)
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Shipby David MacaulayISBN 0395745187 (0-395-74518-7)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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Ship of Magicby Robin HobbISBN 0553575635 (0-553-57563-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Magic'Book summary:Robin Hobb, author of the Farseer trilogy, has returned to that world for a new series. Ship of Magic is a sea tale, reminiscent of Moby Dick and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series in its details of shipboard life. It is also a fantasy adventure with sea serpents, pirates, and all sorts of magic. The liveships have distinct personalities and partner with specific people, somewhat like Anne McCaffrey's Brain ships and their Brawns, though these are trading ships and have full crews.
Hobb has peopled the book with many wonderfully developed characters. Most of the primary ones are members of the Vestritts, an Old Trader family which owns the liveship Vivacia. Their stories are intercut with those of Kennit, the ambitious pirate Brashen, the disinherited scion of another family who served on the Vestritt's ship, and Paragon, an old liveship abandoned and believed mad. The sentient sea serpents have their own story hinted at, as well.
Though Ship of Magic is full of action, none of the plotlines get resolved in this book. Readers who resent being left with many questions and few answers after almost 700 pages should think twice before starting, or wait until the rest of the series is out so that their suspense won't be too prolonged. But Hobb's writing draws you in and makes you care desperately about what will happen next, the mark of a terrific storyteller. --Nona Vero [via]
Shipsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517407337 (0-517-40733-7)
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Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpionby Stephen P. JohnsonISBN 0471267376 (0-471-26737-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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"The magnitude of the tragedy of the USS Scorpion is matched only by the depth of the mystery surrounding her loss. Stephen Johnson has done a remarkable job of shining new light on this dark moment in U.S. submarine history."
--Sherry Sontag, coauthor of Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
"What happened to the USS Scorpion? The question has vexed submariners for almost four decades. Now, with meticulous research and incredible attention to detail, Stephen Johnson examines and dissects one of the most tragic and mysterious submarine accidents in U.S. Navy history."
--Douglas Waller, author of Big Red: Inside the Secret World of a Trident Nuclear Submarine
"Stephen Johnson has crafted a forensic masterpiece that leads the reader back through time to unravel the gnawing enigma of the tragic 1968 loss of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion. Sifting through a maze of conflicting theories, he meticulously lays out a tale of undersea detectives searching for conclusive evidence to one of the most baffling mysteries of the cruel sea."
--Rear Admiral Thomas Evans, author, analyst specializing in submarine history and operations, and former officer on the Scorpion
"The manuscript arrived with yesterday's afternoon mail. I finished reading it by nightfall. It's that good! Thoroughly researched, impeccably documented, with an appealing and literate style, Silent Steel should become essential reading for submarine enthusiasts and for anyone else who enjoys an engaging and informative yarn."
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The Sinbad Voyageby Tim SeverinISBN 0399127577 (0-399-12757-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.s.navyby Ian W. TollISBN 0393058476 (0-393-05847-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Sot-Weed Factorby John BarthISBN 0385240880 (0-385-24088-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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South: The Endurance Expeditionby Ernest ShackletonISBN 0451198808 (0-451-19880-8)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'South: The Endurance Expedition'Book summary:In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a ploar ice floe.[via]In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive.
What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance.
This is their story, as told by the man who led them.
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Speedwell Voyage : A Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the 18th Centuryby Kenneth PoolmanISBN 0425174387 (0-425-17438-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Spring of the Ramby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0375704787 (0-375-70478-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Swords in the Mistby Fritz LeiberISBN 0441791921 (0-441-79192-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swords in the Mist'Book summary:"Fritz Leiber has a wicked imagination. Wicked enough to make us laugh at an impossible future containing nightmarish aspects of our own times." Edmond Cooper, Sunday Times Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that describes the sub-genre he helped create. Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon's grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber's fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization's corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. Swords in the Mist, book three in the Lankhmar series, thrusts our indentured sword-swinging servants into the question of hate, its power and its purpose. You see, it happens to be lean times in Lankhmar, illuminating that link between money and love. Luckily, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser don't always believe in love. When Lankhmar gets too gritty, our travelers take to their other, less harsh mistress, the Sea. But the Sea can play tricks on men, and so can the Sea King. He can break a man or worse yet, curse him. But when he's away it's all play for the formidable swordsmen and the Triple Goddess-and two luscious sea queens. But luck may not always be there as they discover on the way to Ningauble, their wizard employer. After a long journey in defense of their control over their own fates, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouse find themselves pawns in a life and death chess game, all of Lankhmar being the pieces. How many pawns will be left on the board before someone wins? [via]
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Thataway: The Story of the Magnetic Compassby Bill EysterISBN 0498073866 (0-498-07386-6)
Hardcover, A. S. Barnes
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Viking America: The Norse Crossings and Their Legacyby James Robert EnterlineISBN 0385025858 (0-385-02585-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Vikings and Americaby Erik WahlgrenISBN 0500281998 (0-500-28199-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Voyageby Sterling HaydenISBN 0399116656 (0-399-11665-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Wake of the Perdido Starby Gene Hackman, Daniel F. LenihanISBN 0451202112 (0-451-20211-2)
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Water in Between: A Journey at Seaby Kevin PattersonISBN 0385498845 (0-385-49884-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Women Sailors and Sailors' Womenby David CordinglyISBN 0375758720 (0-375-75872-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A World of My Ownby Robin Knox-JohnstonISBN 039302900X (0-393-02900-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Wreck of the Mary Deareby Hammond InnesISBN 0394413946 (0-394-41394-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Yellow Admiralby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393317048 (0-393-31704-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Admiral: Library Edition'Book summary:"There are those already planning this afternoon's trip to the bookstore. Their only reaction is: Thank god, Patrick O'Brian is still writing. To you, I say, not a moment to lose."John Balzar, Los Angeles Times
Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates; he is on even worse terms with his wife, Sophie, whose mother has ferreted out a most damaging trove of old personal letters. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour: in the storm waters off Brest he captures a French privateer laden with gold and ivory, but this at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out, and this feeds into Jack's private fears for his career.
Fortunately, Jack is not left to his own devices. Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with the news that the Chileans, to secure their independence, require a navy, and the service of English officers. Jack is savoring this apparent reprieve for his career, as well as Sophie's forgiveness, when he receives an urgent dispatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba. [via]
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