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882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Questions About the Titanicby Hugh Brewster, Laurie Coulter, Ken MarschallISBN 0590187309 (0-590-18730-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazerby Sena Jeter NaslundISBN 0688171877 (0-688-17187-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ahab's Wife : Or, the Star-Gazer: A Novel'Book summary:It has been said that one can see further only by standing on the shoulders of giants. Ahab's Wife, Sena Naslund's epic work of historical fiction, honours that aphorism, using Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as looking glass into early 19th-century America. Through the eye of an outsider, a woman, she suggests that New England life was broader and richer than Melville's manly world of men, ships and whales. This ambitious novel pays tribute to Melville, creating heroines from his lesser characters, and to America's literary heritage in general. Una, named for the heroine of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, flees to the New England coast from Kentucky to escape her puritanical father and to pursue a more exalted life. She gets whaling out of her system early: going to sea at 16 disguised as a boy, Una has her ship sunk by her own monstrous whale, and survives a harrowing shipwreck:
I was so horrified by the whale's deliberate charge that I could not move. Then my own name flew up from below like a spear: "Una!" Giles' voice broke my trance, and I scrambled down the rigging. No sooner did my foot touch the deck than there was such a lurch that I fell to my face. I heard and felt the boards break below the waterline, the copper sheathing nothing but decorative foil. The whole ship shuddered. A death throe.
The ship dies, but Una returns to land to pursue the life of the mind. The novel's opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--also diminishes Melville's hero in the broader scheme of things. Naslund exposes the reader to the unsung, real-life heroes of Melville's world, including Margaret Fuller and her Boston salon, and Nantucket astronomer Maria Mitchell. There is a chance meeting with a veiled Nathaniel Hawthorne in the woods, and throughout the novel the story brims with references to the giants of literature: Shakespeare, Goethe, Coleridge, Keats, and Wordsworth. Although her novel runs long at nearly 700 pages, Naslund has created an imaginative, entertaining, and very impressive work. --Ted Leventhal [via]More editions of Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer:
Aircraft Carriersby David BrownISBN 0668041641 (0-668-04164-1)
Softcover, Arco Pub Co
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harborby Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon, Gordon William PrangeISBN 0670840742 (0-670-84074-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Axis Submarinesby Anthony John WattsISBN 0668041595 (0-668-04159-5)
Hardcover, Arco Pub Co
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Bedford Incidentby Mark RascovichISBN 0689000251 (0-689-00025-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833by Susan Fels, Charles TyngISBN 0670886327 (0-670-88632-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Boats and ShipsISBN 0590476475 (0-590-47647-5)
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The Caine Mutinyby Herman WoukISBN 0671604252 (0-671-60425-2)
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0590447246 (0-590-44724-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Castaway Catsby Lisa Wheeler, Ponder GoembelISBN 0689862326 (0-689-86232-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchmanby Brian JacquesISBN 0606243151 (0-606-24315-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Castles of Steel : Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Seaby Robert K. MassieISBN 0679456716 (0-679-45671-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Castles of Steel : Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea'Book summary:In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War.
The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal.
But with all its sacrifice, trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other. Over the course of four years, the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all; attempts to break through led only to the lengthening of the already unbearably long casualty lists.
For the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughtsgigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles awaywere ready to test their terrible power against each other.
Their struggles took place in the North Sea and the Pacific, at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles. They reached their climax when Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men.
When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war. In this way, the German effort to seize the trident by defeating the British navy led to the fall of the German empire.
Ultimately, the distinguishing feature of Castles of Steel is the author himself. The knowledge, understanding, and literary power Massie brings to this story are unparalleled. His portrayals of Winston Churchill, the British admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, and the Germans Scheer, Hipper, and Tirpitz are stunning in their veracity and artistry.
Castles of Steel is about war at sea, leadership and command, courage, genius, and folly. All these elements are given magnificent scope by Robert K. Massies special and widely hailed literary mastery. [via]More editions of Castles of Steel : Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea:
Columbus and the Age of Discoveryby Zvi Dor-Ner, William SchellerISBN 0688085458 (0-688-08545-8)
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Curse of the Blue Tatoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman And Fine Ladyby Louis MeyerISBN 0606346481 (0-606-34648-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Deadly Strokeby Warren TuteISBN 069810501X (0-698-10501-X)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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Devils On The Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes, And Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-ship Empiresby KRISTOFFER A. GARINISBN 0670034185 (0-670-03418-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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In this terrifically entertaining history, Kristoffer A. Garin chronicles the industrys rise from humble and comic beginnings in the early sixties through waterfront corruption and the incalculably huge impact of the hit television series The Love Boat in the seventies and eighties to the recent consolidation wars. Entrepreneurial genius and bareknuckle capitalism mate with cultural kitsch as the cruise lines dodge U.S. tax, labor, and environmental laws to make unimaginable profits while bringing the world a new form of leisure. Few businesses in America today are as colorful, lucrative, and innovative as cruise shipping, and Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is the first book to give readers a compelling behind-the-scenes look into these floating empires and the modern-day robber barons who shaped them. [via]
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Explorerby Rupert Matthews, James StevensonISBN 0679814604 (0-679-81460-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Exploring the Titanicby Robert D. Ballard, Ken MarschallISBN 0590419528 (0-590-41952-8)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exploring the Titanic'Book summary:For the first time, the complete story of the sinking and discovery of the "Titanic" is available to young readers, written by the author of the bestseller "The Discovery of the Titanic". "Captures the drama of both the night of the sinking as well as . . . the discovery of the great ship. . . . Stunning".--"School Library Journal", starred review. Full-color illustrations. [via]
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Eyewitness Pirateby Richard Platt, Tina ChambersISBN 0679872558 (0-679-87255-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Famous Ships of World War 2: In Colourby Chris EllisISBN 0668042257 (0-668-04225-7)
Hardcover, Arco
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Finding the Titanicby Robert BallardISBN 0590472305 (0-590-47230-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding the Titanic'Book summary:The story of the Titanic right up to its rediscovery is told for more advanced, independent young readers by the man who discovered the great sunken ship. [via]
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A Five-Year Planby Philip KerrISBN 067102471X (0-671-02471-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0670348325 (0-670-34832-5)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Great Sea Battlesby Oliver WarnerISBN 0600016501 (0-600-01650-1)
Hardcover, Spring Books
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Gulliver's Storiesby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0590418424 (0-590-41842-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0582426626 (0-582-42662-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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An immediate success on its publication in 1726, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was read, as John Gay put it, "from the cabinet council to the nursery." Dean Swift's great satire is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety. [via]More editions of Gulliver's Travels:
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Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0671001744 (0-671-00174-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Guilliver's Travels: ISBN 0672609681 (0-672-60968-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0679601880 (0-679-60188-0)
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Gulliver's Travelsby James RiordanISBN 0613216563 (0-613-21656-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0679428011 (0-679-42801-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Heart of Darkness grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power.
Apparently a sailors yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz and discovers that the relative values of the civilized and the primitive are not what they seem. Heart of Darkness is a model of economic storytelling, an indictment of the inner and outer turmoil caused by the European imperial misadventure, and a piercing account of the fragility of the human soul. [via] 
Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Sailingby David PellyISBN 0671101463 (0-671-10146-3)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 067177476X (0-671-77476-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kon-Tiki'Book summary:Six men on a small raft sail four thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean, from Peru to the Polynesian Islands. [via]
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Kon-Tikiby F.H. Lyon, Thor HeyerdahlISBN 0671726528 (0-671-72652-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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The Last Grain Raceby Eric NewbyISBN 0586051171 (0-586-05117-1)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Leif's Sagaby Jonathan HuntISBN 068980492X (0-689-80492-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 0679405445 (0-679-40544-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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The Lost Wreck of the Isisby Rick Archbold, Robert D. Ballard, Anna Marguerite McCannISBN 0590438522 (0-590-43852-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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The Lost Wreck of the Isisby Robert D. BallardISBN 0590438530 (0-590-43853-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Medusaby Hammond InnesISBN 0689120184 (0-689-12018-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Not Wanted on the Voyageby Timothy FindleyISBN 0670803057 (0-670-80305-7)
Hardcover, Viking
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Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914by David Willis McCulloughISBN 0671244094 (0-671-24409-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914'Book summary:On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia.
All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the Panama Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To build a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an easy matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to involve the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually those workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to build a pyramid a mile high. In the early years, they toiled under the direction of French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who went bankrupt while pursuing his dream of extending France's empire in the Americas. The United States then entered the picture, with President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrating the purchase of the canal--but not before helping foment a revolution that removed Panama from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.
The story of the Panama Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough's long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Pedro's Journalby Pam Conrad, Peter KoeppenISBN 0590462067 (0-590-46206-7)
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Peter the Greatby Diane StanleyISBN 068816708X (0-688-16708-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter the Great'Book summary:Peter the Great, crowned tsar of Russia at the age of ten, believed that whatever he wanted he should have -- and the sooner the better. What he wanted most was to bring his beloved country into the modem world. He traveled to the West to learn European ways -- the first tsar ever to leave Russia -- disguised as a common soldier.
He explored the West with excitement and curiosity and returned home ready to undertake a series of momentous social reforms. And to satisfy his boyhood dream of a Russian naval port, he began to build, on a freezing swamp, a glittering new capital to be named St. Petersburg.
In this welcome reissue of Diane Stanley's acclaimed picturebook biography, her meticulously researched text and sumptuous illustrations capture the fabulous world of seventeenth -- and eighteenth-century tsarist Russia and the greatness of its larger-than-life leader -- a man of huge stature and tremendous spirit whose impatience and vision, insatiable curiosity and boundless energy transformed half a continent.
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Pippi Goes on Boardby Astrid LindgrenISBN 0606257527 (0-606-25752-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Pippi in the South Seasby Astrid Ericsson LindgrenISBN 0670557110 (0-670-55711-0)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pippi in the South Seas'Book summary:Since its first publication, Pippi Longstocking has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. We are pleased to reissue another Pippi Longstocking book in our Oxford Children's Modern Classics series. Pippi Longstocking and her friends, Tommy and Annika, are off on their great adventure of all - a trip to Canny Canny Island, the home of Pippi's cannibal king father. The explore caves and play marbles with real pearls, and the pirates and sharks they meet prove no match forPippi! * Pippi Longstocking is an unforgettable, feisty, strong girl. * This title is being reissued with contemporary illustrations by best-selling illustrator, Tony Ross. * This title has been in print for over forty years and has continued to sell since that time. * Astrid Lindgren has won many awards, including the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award and the International Book Award. * This book will be read over and over again and so this edition has been produced with a strong, durable binding which will appeal to readers and librarians. [via]
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Piratesby Will Osborne, Mary OsborneISBN 0606213139 (0-606-21313-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Pirates Past Noonby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0679824251 (0-679-82425-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Prize of All the Oceans: The Dramatic True Story of Commodore Anson's Voyage Round the World and How He Seized the Spanish Treasure Galleonby Glyndwr WilliamsISBN 0670891975 (0-670-89197-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Querelle of Brestby Jean GenetISBN 0586027467 (0-586-02746-7)
Hardcover, Panther
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The Rise and Fall of British Naval Masteryby Paul M. KennedyISBN 0684146096 (0-684-14609-6)
Hardcover, Scribner
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The Romance of Sailby Michael LeitchISBN 0600375765 (0-600-37576-5)
Hardcover, Hamlyn
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Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria..the Greatest Sea Rescue in Historyby William HofferISBN 0671400401 (0-671-40040-1)
Hardcover, Summit Books
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The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecksby Clive Cussler, Craig DirgoISBN 0671001809 (0-671-00180-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks'Book summary:A steamboat goes up in flames...and down to the bottom of the sea. A locomotive plunges into a creek...and vanished into mystery. A German U-boat sends an American troop transport, and eight hundred on board, to a watery grave, on Christmas eve.
Clive Cussler and his crack team of NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency, a nonprofit organization that searches for historic shipwrecks) volunteers have found the remains of these and other tragic wrecks. Here for the first time are the dramatic, true accounts of the twelve most remarkable underwater discoveries made by Cussler and his team. As suspenseful and satisfying as the best of his Dirk Pitt novels, The Sea Hunters is a unique story of true commitment and courage. [via]
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She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Seaby Joan DruettISBN 0684856913 (0-684-85691-3)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea'Book summary:Mention the word "pirate," and you'll likely conjure up an image, courtesy of Robert Newton's scenery-chewing performance in the 1950 film adaptation of Treasure Island, that features a peg-leg, a parrot, and a mighty "arrrgh."
New Zealand-based maritime historian Joan Druett amends that image to include voices in a higher register, adding She Captains to other works (Hen Frigates, "She Was a Sister Sailor") that address women's roles in the passage and exploration of the high seas. Druett reaches far back in history, opening her lively book with an account of the water-coursing Massegetae queen Tomyris, who bested the Persian king Cyrus on the shores of the Volga River. Druett enlists dozens of other militarily, criminally, and commercially extraordinary women in her dramatis personae, including the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra, whose name is synonymous with mysterious beauty but who also commanded a mighty navy; Cheng I Sao, the 18th-century terror of the South China Sea; and Lucy Brewer, who, disguised as a man, served as a common sailor aboard the U.S.S. Constitution. Along the way Druett considers the role of New England women as financial mainstays of the whaling trade, stops at Spanish ports of call controlled by powerful (and sometimes bloodthirsty) women, and generally has a fine time exploring waters that history has little charted. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Shipby David MacaulayISBN 0613001206 (0-613-00120-6)
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 0671510053 (0-671-51005-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. [via]
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Ships and Boats: Eye Openersby Angela Royston, Jane Cradock-Watson, Dave HopkinsISBN 0689715668 (0-689-71566-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient Worldby Lionel CassonISBN 0691002150 (0-691-00215-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World'Book summary:Lionel Casson's encyclopedic study is the first of its kind to use underwater archaeological data to refine and area of scholarship that had, for the most part, relied on ancient texts and graphic representations. Tracing the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire, from skiffs and barges to huge oared warships and royal yachts, Casson describes not only the ships themselves, but also the make-up and training of the crews, placement of weaponry, how cargo was stored, methods of navigation, harbor facilities, and the ways ships were named.
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Ships and the Sea: A Chronological Reviewby Duncan HawsISBN 0690009682 (0-690-00968-2)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Shipwreckby Richard Platt, Tina Chambers, Alex WilsonISBN 0679885625 (0-679-88562-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shipwreck'Book summary:Travel to the depths of the ocean to explore the history of many an ill-fated journey, including a Spanish Galleon, the Mary Rose, and the Titanic. From antiquity to the modern age, this engrossing guide looks at the causes of shipwrecks, rescue technology, the exploration of shipwrecks, and restoration attempts. With fascinating facts about the bounties these underwater graves may hold, Shipwreck is a treasure-trove of information for aspiring, as well as armchair, underwater archaeologists. [via]
Steamboats: A History of the Early Adventureby Ralph T. WardISBN 067251785X (0-672-51785-X)
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Stowawayby Karen Hesse, Robert Andrew ParkerISBN 0689839898 (0-689-83989-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stowaway'Book summary:To 11-year-old Nicholas Young, the tall masts of the exploratory ship Endeavour look like an answer to his fervent prayers. On the run from his demanding father and the cruel butcher who employed him, Nick finds adventure beyond his wildest imaginings when he stows away on the ship of legendary Captain James Cook. Once he is discovered and put to work, Nick becomes party to some amazing sights. He meets indigenous natives of Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia, wonders at the sight of kangaroos, and shudders with horror when confronted with cannibalism. Nick survives a hurricane, a near shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, and a deadly bout with typhoid to become one of the few original crew members to successfully circumnavigate the globe with Cook and arrive safely back in England. He notes in his worn journal shortly before sighting his homeland's shore: "We have truly led the way, charting the path for all who come after. I don't know I shall ever feel so again as I feel now. That any of us shall."
Newbery Medal-winning Karen Hesse's story is based on actual Endeavour stowaway Nicholas Young, about whom little is known. Using the real 1768 diaries of Captain Cook and shipboard naturalist Joseph Banks, Hesse has changed Young from a forgotten footnote into a living, breathing person with red hair and a penchant for pork chops. So authentic you can feel the sea spray, this fine fictionalized diary is a nautical treasure for landlubbers young and old. (Ages 10 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
Stowawayby Nancy RueISBN 0613293533 (0-613-29353-3)
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Submarines & Shipsby Richard HumbleISBN 0670867780 (0-670-86778-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Tall Shipsby Kathryn LaskyISBN 0684159643 (0-684-15964-3)
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Titanicby Will Osborne, Mary OsborneISBN 0606241736 (0-606-24173-6)
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Tonight on the Titanicby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0679890637 (0-679-89063-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tonight on the Titanic'Book summary:Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade seriesthe Magic Tree House!
Titanic trouble!
Jack and Annie are in for an exciting, scary, and sad adventure when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the decks of the Titanic. Is there anything they can do to help the ill-fated ship? Will they be able to save anyone? Will they be able to save themselves?
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Under the Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Piratesby David CordinglyISBN 0679425608 (0-679-42560-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates'Book summary:Though literature, films, and folklore have romanticized pirates as gallant seaman who hunted for treasure in exotic locales, David Cordingly, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum in England, reveals the facts behind the legends of such outlaws as Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Calico Jack. Even stories about buried treasure are fictitious, he says, yet still the myth remains. Though pirate captains were often sadistic villains and crews endured barbarous tortures, were constantly threatened with the possibility of death by hanging, drowning in a storm, or surviving a shipwreck on a hostile coast, pirates are still idealized. Cordingly examines why the myth of the romance of piratehood endures and why so few lived out their days in luxury on the riches they had plundered. [via]
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The Voyage of Patience Goodspeedby Heather Vogel FrederickISBN 0689848692 (0-689-84869-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Voyage Outby Virginia WoolfISBN 0613501403 (0-613-50140-3)
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The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sailby Derek LundyISBN 0676973671 (0-676-97367-1)
Softcover, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
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A Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689317204 (0-689-31720-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wizard of Earthsea'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this first book, A Wizard of Earthsea readers will witness Sparrowhawk's moving rite of passage--when he discovers his true name and becomes a young man. Great challenges await Sparrowhawk, including an almost deadly battle with a sinister creature, a monster that may be his own shadow. [via]
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El Diario De Pedroby Pam Conrad, Leda Schiavo, Peter KoeppenISBN 0590474022 (0-590-47402-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Diario De Pedro'Book summary:A Spanish edition of a fictional log kept by the Santa Maria's ship boy recounts his adventures at sea, his homesickness, his fears of the treacherous voyage, and his dreams of the new world. [via]
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En Busca Del Titanic/Finding the Titanicby Robert D. Ballard, Nan Froman, Ken MarschallISBN 0590926306 (0-590-92630-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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