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Cleveland's Harbor: The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority
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Jay C. Ehle |
12 May 2013 |
$11.99 |
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Lightkeeping on the St. Lawrence: The end of an era
Lightkeeping on the St. Lawrence outlines the history of lightkeeping in the St. Lawrence River and Gulf from its emergence in 1803 until automation replaced the last lightkeeper in 1988. Fog, hidden reefs, rocks, and sandbars have made the waters of |
Normand Lafreniere |
4 May 2013 |
$19.99 |
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Shipwrecks and Seafaring Tales of Prince Edward Island
In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier's arrival, Prince Edward Island's history has been tied to the sea and to ships. From the first explorers through immigrants, traders, sailors, and fishermen, thousands of seafaring people and their ships have come |
Julie V. Watson |
4 May 2013 |
$17.99 |
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Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships
The passenger steamers of the Canada Steamship Lines were known as the Great White Fleet. No fewer than 51 steamers comprised the passenger fleet at the company's inception, and its network of routes was awesome. Nearly half a century after the last passenger ...more |
John Henry |
27 Apr 2013 |
$30.00 |
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Out of Sight, Out of Mind identifies and dispels various myths which have developed around the importance of sea transport and logistical support, and argues for a new appreciation of the service of the 13,000 members of the RAN who participated in this ...more |
John Carroll |
20 Apr 2013 |
$14.99 |
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: The Unlikely Hero of the Lusitania
Alfred Vanderbilt was extravagant playboy that became the subject of numerous scandals. During the sinking of the Lusitania, he spent his last moments rescuing women and children. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt follows Alfred's journey from philanderer ...more |
Steven H. Gittelman &
Emily Gittelman |
10 Apr 2013 |
$31.99 |
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Buccaneers and Privateers: The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725
This book takes a fresh look at English buccaneering and privateering literature from the Golden Age of Piracy and includes discussion of well known figures such as Sir Henry Morgan as well as more obscure figures like Captain George Cusack.
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Richard Frohock |
6 Mar 2013 |
$64.99 |
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Sailing to the Far Horizon: The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship
The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand's North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was ...more |
Pamela Sisman Bitterman |
28 Nov 2012 |
$14.95 |
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Chinese Junks and Other Native Craft
The sailing junk was an amazing vessel. From Tientsin to Hong Kong - and up and down the great rivers in between - Ivon A. Donnelly immortalized these lost treasures in this book from 1924, with a pen and sketchpad and with words that betray his passion ...more |
Ivon A. Donnelly |
26 Nov 2012 |
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Scots And The Sea: A Nation's Lifeblood
Scots and the Sea is a unique and compelling account of a small, sparsely populated country's relationship with the most powerful force on earth. It is a celebration of the courage and endurance of fishermen and their families, the selfless bravery of ...more |
James Davidson |
21 Nov 2012 |
$10.62 |
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Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II
The words "Murmansk Run" conjure visions of ice-laden ships and thoughts of freezing to death in seconds. For five long years, thousands of men and women fought ferociously in the coldest corner of hell on earth. Some fought for survival, some struggled |
Michael Walling |
11 Oct 2012 |
$9.95 |
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Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
An immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon. ...more |
Steven Biel |
6 Sep 2012 |
$15.95 |
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River Palace
During her history, the steamboat Kingston survived wrecks and fires, until finally being sunk near one of Kingston's ship graveyards in 1930. This book tells her story. ...more |
Walter Lewis |
22 Aug 2012 |
$25.99 |
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck
Ship of Gold tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred miles off the Carolina coast in September 1857. Over four hundred ...more |
Gary Kinder |
18 Aug 2012 |
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Titanic, A Very Peculiar History
It boasted libraries, palm trees, swimming pools, a 50-phone switchboard and was nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower... No, she's not a skyscraper, she's the Titanic! Marking the centenary of the sinking of the White Star Liner RMS Titanic in 1912, 'Titanic, ...more |
Jim Pipe |
6 Aug 2012 |
$9.49 |
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Alive on the Andrea Doria!
One half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner the SS Andrea Doria in 1956 is relived in this candid, heartrending account. Author Pierette Domenica Simpson, who, with her grandparents, survived the tragedy ...more |
Pierette Domenica Simpson |
26 Jul 2012 |
$9.99 |
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Transatlantic Liners
Prior to air travel there was only one way to cross the Atlantic: by ship. By the late nineteenth century, steam ships dominated the transatlantic passenger trade, growing exponentially in size as maritime technology improved and as more immigrants poured ...more |
J. Layton |
5 Jul 2012 |
$9.95 |
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P&o
All the romance of travel at sea is captured in the long history of P&O. From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the 19th, and a good deal of the 20th, ...more |
Ruth Artmonsky |
5 Jul 2012 |
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J.P. Morgan and the Transportation Kings: The Titanic and Other Disasters
Vanderbilt, Hill, Morgan, and Harriman were America's industrial princes, planning to link American railroads and a shipping cartel with a railroad line through China and Russia, then into Europe, and create: the Transportation Kings. Poised for ...more |
Steven H. Gittelman |
31 May 2012 |
$39.99 |
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Other Side of the Night
After every disaster, someone has something to hide . . . A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic ...more |
Daniel Allen Butler |
14 May 2012 |
$9.99 |
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