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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U. S. S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disasterby Richard F. NewcombISBN 038081904X (0-380-81904-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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American Submarinesby H.T. LentonISBN 0385047614 (0-385-04761-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909by Pierre BertonISBN 0385658451 (0-385-65845-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909'Book summary:The polar north has always lured the passionate mind, the eccentric, and the damned. Pierre Bertons The Arctic Grail is a substantial chronicle of these explorers, some of whom sought an economical northern route to the East and others adventure and fame, not to mention the backers who supported their primarily marine expeditions. Bertons prose reads like good fiction, providing insight into the lives of the men who journeyed north--and those left behind hoping for their safe return. I would not recall you, wrote Isabella Parry to her absent husband in her diary. Your path leads to glory and honour and never would I turn you from that path when I feel it is the path you ought to go....
The obstinate pride of the planners and leaders of these expeditions commanded respect from their peers despite a recurring failure to learn from past, often fatal errors. The icon of the north, John Franklin, who through his disappearance became the symbol of nineteenth-century Arctic exploration, is but one of the players. Other less familiar names figure in. Theres John Ross, whose 1818 expedition was one of the earliest. And William Edward Parry, whose failed 1824-1825 voyage to find the Northwest Passage resulted in the wrecking of his vessel The Fury. And first officer W. Parker Snow, who specialized in tall tales of the murder of John Franklin by Eskimos. Each contributes to The Arctic Grail a sense of adventure, passion, and perseverance in the face of all that nature can unleash. --Tim Tokaryk [via]
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The Ashley Book of Knotsby Clifford W. AshleyISBN 0385040253 (0-385-04025-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Bartlett, the Great Canadian Explorerby Harold Andrew HorwoodISBN 0385099843 (0-385-09984-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Battle in the English Channelby Theodore Taylor, Andrew GlassISBN 038085225X (0-380-85225-X)
Softcover, Avon Books
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The Battle of Matapanby S. W. C. PackISBN 033002180X (0-330-02180-X)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Battleship at War: The Epic Story of the Uss Washingtonby Ivan MusicantISBN 0380704870 (0-380-70487-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Boon Islandby Kenneth RobertsISBN 038504044X (0-385-04044-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Caine Mutinyby Herman WoukISBN 0316955108 (0-316-95510-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Caine Mutiny'Book summary:The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic. [via]
The Campaign for Guadalcanal: A Battle That Made Historyby Jack CogginsISBN 0385043546 (0-385-04354-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Castles Of Steel: Britain, Germany, And The Winning Of The Great War At Seaby Robert K. MassieISBN 0345408780 (0-345-40878-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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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.
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China Voyage: Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raftby Tim Severin, Rex Warner, Joe BenyonISBN 0201483947 (0-201-48394-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Convoy: The Greatest U-Boat Battle of the Warby Martin MiddlebrookISBN 0304365785 (0-304-36578-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571by Hugh BichenoISBN 0304363197 (0-304-36319-7)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Das Boot : The Boatby Lothar-Günther BuchheimISBN 0304352314 (0-304-35231-4)
Softcover, Cassell P L C
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Deadlockby Sara ParetskyISBN 0385279337 (0-385-27933-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Debatable Landby Candia McWilliamISBN 0385263104 (0-385-26310-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Enduranceby Caroline AlexanderISBN 0375404031 (0-375-40403-1)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Endurance'Book summary:Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley, The Endurance by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in the annals of exploration." Setting sail as World War I broke out in Europe, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, hoped to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent. But their ship, Endurance, was trapped in the drifting pack ice, eventually to splinter, leaving the expedition stranded on floes--a situation that seemed "not merely desperate but impossible."
Most skillfully Alexander constructs the expedition's character through its personalities--the cast of veteran explorers, scientists, and crew--with aid from many previously unavailable journals and documents. We learn, for instance, that carpenter and shipwright Henry McNish, or "Chippy," was "neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant," and that Mrs. Chippy, his cat, was "full of character." Such firsthand descriptions, paired with 170 of Frank Hurley's intimate photographs, which are comprehensively assembled here for the first time, penetrate the hulls of the Endurance and these tough men. The account successfully reveals the seldom-seen domestic world of expedition life--the singsongs, feasts, lectures, camaraderie--so that when the hardships set in, we know these people beyond the stereotypical guise of mere explorers and long for their safety.
Alexander reveals Shackleton as an inspiring optimist, "a leader who put his men first." Throughout the grueling ordeal, Shackleton and his men show what endurance and greatness are all about. The Endurance is a most intimate portrait of an expedition and of survival. Readers will possess a newfound respect for these daring souls, know better their unthinkable toil and half-forgotten realm of glory. --Byron Ricks [via]
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The Falklands Conflictby Christopher Dobson, Ronald Payne, John MillerISBN 0340324082 (0-340-32408-2)
Softcover, Coronet Books
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Famous Sea Battlesby David HowarthISBN 0316374806 (0-316-37480-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0224009605 (0-224-00960-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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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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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift, Christopher FoxISBN 0312066651 (0-312-06665-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:[via]This work includes the complete authoritative text with biographical & historical contexts, critical history and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives.
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Hardcover, Prentice Hall of Canada Ltd - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0306803399 (0-306-80339-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0333634381 (0-333-63438-1)
Hardcover, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0312066651 (0-312-06665-1)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Ross C. MurfinISBN 0312114915 (0-312-11491-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:[via]Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.
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Heart of Darknessby Ross C. Murfin, Joseph ConradISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diaryby Joseph Conrad, Caryl PhillipsISBN 037575377X (0-375-75377-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diary'Book summary:Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890-the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life." [via]
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Heavy Weather Sailingby K. Adlard ColesISBN 022911556X (0-229-11556-X)
Hardcover, A. Coles
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Hitler's High Seas Fleetby Richard HumbleISBN 0345022874 (0-345-02287-4)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Hornblower During the Crisis and Two Storiesby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289159 (0-316-28915-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Hornblower During the Crisis and Two Stories Hornblowers Temptation and the Last Encounterby C. S. ForesterISBN 0316289442 (0-316-28944-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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How We Found the Mary Roseby Alexander McKeeISBN 0285625241 (0-285-62524-1)
Hardcover, Souvenir Press
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Japanese High Seas Fleetby Richard HumbleISBN 034523426X (0-345-23426-X)
Hardcover, B[allantine] B[ooks
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King's Captainby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312305087 (0-312-30508-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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King's Captain : An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventureby Dewey LambdinISBN 0312268858 (0-312-26885-8)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Last Boat to Folly Bridgeby Eric C. HiscockISBN 0304935565 (0-304-93556-5)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Little Ship Meteorologyby Mannas Joel RantzenISBN 0214201104 (0-214-20110-4)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 0385042655 (0-385-04265-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lost Subs: From the Hunley to the Kursk, the Greatest Submarines Ever Lost-And Foundby Spencer DunmoreISBN 0306811405 (0-306-81140-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Lusitaniaby Colin SimpsonISBN 0316791784 (0-316-79178-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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A Matter of Riskby R. D. Varner, W. R. CollierISBN 0345286391 (0-345-28639-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Micro-Vehicle Punch-Outsby John Strejan, Jennifer Foster, Random House StaffISBN 037580014X (0-375-80014-X)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Nanking Cargoby Michael Hatcher, Max De Rham, Antony ThorncroftISBN 0241121175 (0-241-12117-5)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucketby Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Rachman, Jeffrey MeyersISBN 0375760075 (0-375-76007-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Not Wanted on the Voyageby Timothy FindleyISBN 0385294158 (0-385-29415-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Pilots and SpacecraftsISBN 0307134806 (0-307-13480-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Piratesby Gail GibbonsISBN 0316306606 (0-316-30660-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists: A Novelby Gideon DefoeISBN 0375423850 (0-375-42385-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Pirates: A Nonfiction Companion to Pirates Past Noonby Sal Murdocca, Will Osborne, Mary Osborne, Sal TmurdoccaISBN 0375802991 (0-375-80299-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Plague Shipby Frank Gill SlaughterISBN 0385049587 (0-385-04958-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Red Rackham's Treasureby Michael Turner, Herge, Leslie Lonsdale-CooperISBN 0316358347 (0-316-35834-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Rackham's Treasure'Book summary:Concluding the story begun in The Secret of the Unicorn, Red Rackham's Treasure follows Tintin and friends as they search for the pirate booty procured by Captain Haddock's ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock, in the West Indies. They receive some unexpected help in the form of a hard-of-hearing inventor named Professor Calculus, who would go on to become one of the most endearing characters of the series. (Herge admitted that the character was one "whom I never suspected would take on such importance.") It's a lot of fun, with some submarine and diving adventures, humor from the Thompsons, and an unexpected (but satisfying) ending. --David Horiuchi [via]
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Richard Scarry's Things That Goby Richard ScarryISBN 0307118177 (0-307-11817-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure into the Arcticby Myron ArmsISBN 0385490933 (0-385-49093-3)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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The Rise and Fall of British Naval Masteryby Paul M. KennedyISBN 0333350944 (0-333-35094-4)
Softcover, Macmillan
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The Rising Sunby Douglas GalbraithISBN 0330372971 (0-330-37297-1)
Hardcover, Picador
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Russia Looks to the Sea: A Study of the Expansion of Soviet Maritime Powerby David FairhallISBN 0233962247 (0-233-96224-7)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Sacred Hungerby Barry UnsworthISBN 0241132827 (0-241-13282-7)
Softcover, H. Hamilton
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Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this Booker Prize-winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp. [via] 
San Andreasby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0385231520 (0-385-23152-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Scuffy the Tugboatby Gertrude Crampton, Tibor GergelyISBN 0307020460 (0-307-02046-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Scuffy the Tugboat: ISBN 0307160599 (0-307-16059-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Scuffy the Tugboat: ISBN 0307020460 (0-307-02046-0)
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- Scuffy the Tugboat: ISBN 0375875379 (0-375-87537-9)
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Scuffy the Tugboatby C. Gregory CramptonISBN 0307905470 (0-307-90547-0)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scuffy the Tugboat'Book summary:Meant for bigger things, Scuffy the Tugboat sets off to explore the world. But on his daring adventure Scuffy realizes that home is where hed rather be, sailing in his bathtub. For over 50 years, parents and children have cherished this classic Little Golden Book.
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Secret of the Unicornby HergeISBN 0316358320 (0-316-35832-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret of the Unicorn'Book summary:The Secret of the Unicorn was one of the first truly great Tintin adventures and Herge's personal favorite, combining a puzzling mystery with a ripping pirate yarn. When Tintin finds a magnificent model ship in the street market, his attempt to buy it for Captain Haddock leads him on a trail of pickpockets, burglars, and secret treasure, and Haddock enthralls him with a tale of his seafaring ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock (who was exclaiming "Thundering typhoons!" generations before the Captain ever did), and his fateful encounter with the fearsome pirate Red Rackham. The story is also notable for Herge's fantastic eye for ship detail as well as the first appearances of Nestor and Marlinspike Hall. The Secret of the Unicorn was Tintin's first official two-book adventure, continued in Red Rackham's Treasure. --David Horiuchi [via]
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Shinano: The Sinking of Japan's Secret Supershipby Joseph F. Enright, James W. RyanISBN 0312909675 (0-312-90967-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Ship of the Lineby C. S. ForesterISBN 0316289361 (0-316-28936-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vesselsby Bill Smith, Doug Chiang, Troy VigilISBN 034539299X (0-345-39299-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Star-Crossedby Linda CollisonISBN 0375833633 (0-375-83363-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Story of P and O: The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Companyby David Howarth, Stephen HowarthISBN 0297789651 (0-297-78965-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of P and O: The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company'Book summary:For more than 150 years P&O has been one of the world's greatest shipping lines. Beginning with the mail contract to Gibraltar, P&O quickly became the British way to travel the world. The first shipping company to offer cruises, more than 100 years later cruising on P&O's famous white ships remains an important part of the company's activities, although it is now an internationally based group with many wide-ranging interests. This is the history of the company and its operations. [via]
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Againby David Foster WallaceISBN 0316925284 (0-316-92528-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again'Book summary:David Foster Wallace made quite a splash in 1996 with his massive novel, Infinite Jest. Now he's back with a collection of essays entitled A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. In addition to a razor-sharp writing style, Wallace has a mercurial mind that lights on many subjects. His seven essays travel from a state fair in Illinois to a cruise ship in the Caribbean, explore how television affects literature and what makes film auteur David Lynch tick, and deconstruct deconstructionism and find the intersection between tornadoes and tennis.
These eclectic interests are enhanced by an eye (and nose) for detail: "I have seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled what suntan lotion smells like spread over 21,000 pounds of hot flesh . . ." It's evident that Wallace revels in both the life of the mind and the peculiarities of his fellows; in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again he celebrates both. [via]
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This Boatby Paul CollicuttISBN 0374374953 (0-374-37495-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Tree of Lifeby Peter SisISBN 0374456283 (0-374-45628-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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U-Boat:the Secret Menace: The Secret Menaceby David MasonISBN 0356025470 (0-356-02547-0)
Hardcover, Macdonald & Co
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Uncommon Carriersby John McPheeISBN 0374280398 (0-374-28039-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncommon Carriers'Book summary:What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation.[via]
Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot,
eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the "tight-assed" Illinois River on a
"towboat" pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being "a good deal longer than the Titanic." And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John,
in a homemade skiff in 1839.
Uncommon Carriers is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.More editions of Uncommon Carriers:
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The Voyage Outby Virginia WoolfISBN 0375757279 (0-375-75727-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage Out'Book summary:The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out--together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Published to acclaim in England in 1915 and in America five years later, The Voyage Out marks Woolf's beginning as one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers.
Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out none-theless clearly lays bare the poetic style and innovative technique--with its multiple figures of consciousness, its detailed portraits of characters' inner lives, and its constant shifting between the quotidian and the profound--that are the signature of Woolf's fiction.
Rachel Vinrace, Woolf's first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who desires to teach Rachel "how to live."Arriving in Santa Marina, a village on the South American coast, Rachel and Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, with whom Rachel falls in love. But theirs is ultimately a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other stories and other points of view, as the narrative shifts focus between its central and peripheral characters. E. M. Forster praised The Voyage Out as "a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path."
This edition includes a new Introduction by Michael Cunningham, bestselling author of The Hours. Cunningham at once unfolds an engaging short essay of Woolf's early life and career, an insightful exploration of the themes to which Woolf returns again and again in her fiction, and a spirited defense of the relevance and lasting importance of her art. Katherine Anne Porter wrote of Woolf: "The world of arts was her native territory; she ranged freely under her own sky, speaking her mother tongue fearlessly."
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Voyage to Enehby Roland J. GreenISBN 0312872313 (0-312-87231-3)
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Voyagerby Diana GabaldonISBN 0385335997 (0-385-33599-7)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voyager'Book summary:From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.
Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her...and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.
Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reuniteor forever doomher timeless love. [via] 
The Weight of Waterby Anita ShreveISBN 0316780375 (0-316-78037-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Weight of Water'Book summary:A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?) She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. A rich, textured novel. [via]
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Wonders of the African Worldby Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Lynn DavisISBN 0375402357 (0-375-40235-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonders of the African World'Book summary:In the 1920s, Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen asked, "What is Africa to me?" Wonders of the African World, a stunning African travelogue by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr. (arguably America's most public and prolific black intellectual), takes up that question for a new generation. A beautifully illustrated, literary companion to a PBS documentary series, Wonders traces Gates's 10-month sojourn through the African motherland, from the haunting pyramids of the Egyptian/Nubian empire in Sudan and the ancient Christian heritage of Ethiopia to the lost city of Timbuktu and the fabled University of Sankore. Erudite scholar that he is, Gates uses his trip to investigate the promise and perils of contemporary Africa, considering, among other issues, the unifying potential of the Swahili language and black complicity in the slave trade. Gates also takes aim at the Enlightenment, the subsequent colonialist occupations by European nations, and the worst aspects of Afrocentrism. Ultimately, he reveals an unbreakable, albeit ill-defined, relationship between Afro-Americans and Africans: "I have learned that I am neither Fon nor Beninian, Asante nor Ghanian, Swahili nor Kenyan, Nubian or Sudanese," Gates writes. Though not a member of any one of these great peoples in particular, I am, as a descendant of a West African slave and of ex-slaves, the product of a truly Pan-African new world culture forged out of the crucible of slavery." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Wonders of the African Worldby Henry Louis GatesISBN 0375709487 (0-375-70948-7)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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