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  • The Wager

    A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    de David Grann ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the ... Leer más

    $12.69 USD

  • Magallanes

    El hombre y su gesta

    de Stefan Zweig ...
    Esta es la historia de Fernando de Magallanes, también conocido como Hernando de Magallanes (en portugués: Fernão de Magalhães; Sabrosa, Región Norte, Portugal, primavera de 1480-Mactán, Islas Filipinas, 27 de abril de 1521). Fue un militar, marino y navegante portugués de linaje noble, nombrado por la Monarquía Hispánica adelantado, capitán general de la «Armada para el descubrimiento de la ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Francis Drake

    El corsario que desafió a un imperio

    Traducido por Lara Cortés Fernández ...
    Series series Tiempo de Historia
    La fascinante historia del corsario Francis Drake nos lleva por la génesis de la ambición occidental por dominar el mundo.Este libro narra la épica historia de Francis Drake, el infame corsario y explorador inglés conocido por circunnavegar el mundo en una sola expedición. A través del testimonio inédito del piloto portugués Nuno da Silva, seguiremos el periplo de Drake desde las incursiones ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Another Great Day at Sea

    Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush

    de Geoff Dyer ...
    In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever have hoped.In Dyer's hands, the warship becomes a microcosm for a stocktaking of modern Western life: religion, drugs, chauvinism, farting, gyms, ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD

  • Magellan. Der Mann und seine Tat

    de Stefan Zweig ...
    Die Geschichte vom Seefahrer und Entdecker Ferdinand Magellan (portugiesisch: Fernão de Magalhães und spanisch: Fernando de Magallanes; 1480 - 1521), die Stefan Zweig hier behandelt, ist sowohl geschichtlich informativ und interessant, wie auch literarisch gelungen und spannend erzählt. Es gelingt Zweig, einen historischen Stoff, der in unserer heutigen Zeit nicht selten als langweilig und ... Leer más

    $1.18 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Malditos

    Historias reales de quienes lo desafiaron todo y pagaron con sangre y gloria

    de Black Mango ...
    El fenómeno de Black Mango hecho libro: historias fascinantes en un viaje único lleno de aventuras.Hombres que escaparon de cárceles inexpugnables.Piratas que aterrorizaron los mares y ocultaron sus secretos más oscuros.Mujeres que arriesgaron su vida para denunciar lo innombrable.Exploradores que esquivaron la muerte en los rincones más hostiles del planeta.De... ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Misadventures in Nature's Paradise

    Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island during the Dutch Era

    The book provides a pre-settlement historical account of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in their Indian Ocean context. The project began as a search for clues to locations of two 18th century Dutch shipwrecks, and was expanded into a general account of the early island histories and associated mythological Indian Ocean islands and creatures. ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hornblower's Historical Shipmates

    The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's <I>Indefatigable</I>

    This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against theFrench ship of the line Les Droits de l'Homme. C. S. Forester, the historical novelist, placed his famous hero, Horatio Hornblower, aboard Pellew's ship as a midshipman, so this ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Operation Pedestal 1942

    The Battle for Malta’s Lifeline

    de Angus Konstam ...
    Series Libro 394 - Campaign
    A fascinating story of a key turning point in the War in the Mediterranean, as the island of Malta was thrown a vital lifeline.Since 1940, the island of Malta had been a thorn in the Axis' side. It sat astride the direct sea route between Italy and its North African colonies, and from 1941 the Royal Navy had used the island as a base for its attacks on Axis convoys. The island, though, relied on ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The End of Barbary Terror

    America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa

    When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and for all. ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Great Lakes Warships 1812–1815

    de Mark Lardas ...
    Series Libro 188 - New Vanguard
    When war broke out in 1812, neither the United States Navy nor the Royal Navy had more than a token force on the Great Lakes.However, once the shooting started, it sparked a ship-building arms race that continued throughout the war. Mark Lardas examines the design and development of the warships built upon the lakes during the war, emphasising their differences from their salt-water contemporaries ... Leer más

    $13.59 USD

  • Dawn Like Thunder

    The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy

    de Glenn Tucker ...
    In the early 1800s, American ships off the coast of North Africa routinely found themselves the targets of Muslim pirates. These sea raiders, or 'corsairs' as they were known, sought captives to enslave in the Ottoman Empire's galleys, mines and harems. When reports circulated of white Christians being shackled to oars, smashing rocks in mines and being sold into sexual slavery, the American ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Foreign Jack Tars

    The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

    de Sara Caputo ...
    Series series Modern British Histories
    The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. Based on sources from across Britain, Europe, and the US, and blending quantitative, social, cultural, ... Leer más

    $24.59 USD

  • Liberty’s Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire.

    de Maya Jasanoff ...
    From the author of ‘Edge of Empire’ comes a fascinating, thought-provoking and alternative history of the American Revolution – that of those Americans who remained loyal to the British Empire.George Washington's triumphant entrance into New York City in 1783 marked the end of the American Revolution; the British were gone, the patriots were back and a key moment inscribed itself in the annals of ... Leer más

    $11.19 USD

  • RMS Queen Mary

    The World's Favourite Liner

    de David Ellery ...
    Probably the most famous, and certainly one of the best-loved ships in the world, the Cunard transatlantic liner RMS Queen Mary has now been preserved at Long Beach, California as a floating hotel and tourist attraction for more than fifty years, comfortably longer than her 31-year career as an ocean liner. Laid down in 1930, Queen Mary's construction was severely delayed by the Great Depression. ... Leer más

    $13.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sull'oceano

    "Sull'oceano" è un'opera di denuncia della condizione dei poverissimi emigranti italiani. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wunderwaffen im Zweiten Weltkrieg - Band 1

    Neuartige Waffensysteme der Deutschen Kriegsmarine

    WUNDERWAFFEN IM ZWEITEN WELTKRIEG – Band 1Neuartige Waffensysteme der Deutschen KriegsmarineDer Begriff Wunderwaffe wurde von der NS-Propaganda während des Zweiten Weltkrieges verwendet. Er bezeichnet generell gesprochen eine Waffe, die einer Kriegspartei in einem bewaffneten Konflikt einen unerwarteten, überraschenden Vorteil verschaffen soll. Ebenso wichtig wie der waffentechnische Fortschritt ... Leer más

    $5.33 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • World War II US Navy Special Warfare Units

    de Eugene Liptak ...
    Series Libro 203 - Elite
    An illustrated exploration of the dangerous and difficult tasks performed by US Navy Special Warfare Units, from combat demolition to deception operations - a vital, but largely unsung, contribution to Allied victory.With the need for large-scale amphibious landings to decide the outcome of World War II the US Navy developed several types of specialized unit to reconnoitre potential landing areas, ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Falklands War: A History from Beginning to End

    The Falklands War, which erupted in 1982, was a conflict between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Argentina over sovereignty of the Falklands, a group of largely uninhabited islands in the South Atlantic. The islands had under two thousand inhabitants and little particular strategic or commercial importance when they became the object of the war. Still, disputes over whether these islands ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Voice from the Main Deck

    Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech

    de Samuel Leech ...
    Samuel Leech (1798–1848) was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few who wrote an account of his experiences, titled, in the manner of the time, "A Voice from the Main Deck".Leech's nautical career began in 1810, at the age of thirteen, when Lord William FitzRoy agreed to take Samuel into his frigate HMS Macedonian.He ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sink the Belgrano

    de Mike Rossiter ...
    On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'. At first he didn't believe it. In the early hours of 2 April, Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Isles.The sinking of the Belgrano was one of the most dramatic moments of the Falklands conflict. For many it ... Leer más

    $19.09 USD

  • La supremacía de los buques acorazados. Motores, artillería y blindaje

    Historia de los grandes combates navales (1866-1905)

    Los grandes acorazados de la batalla de Tsushima, más armados y más blindados que los cruceros y destructores que los escoltaban, evocan imágenes de altas chimeneas escupiendo densas nubes de negro hollín y de enormes proas partiendo el agua del mar. Pero, eso no es todo, además traen a la mente la imagen de decenas de armas de fuego de todos los calibres instaladas de proa a popa, listas para ... Leer más

    $5.98 USD

  • Young Nelsons

    Boy sailors during the Napoleonic Wars

    This book takes us into the fascinating and sometimes tragic world of the boy sailors of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting and dying for their country across the oceans of the world.They 'fought like young Nelsons.' The words of a schoolmaster, writing from aboard the Mars after the battle of Trafalgar, describing the valour of his pupils in the heat of battle. Made immortal by ... Leer más

    $15.39 USD

  • 1891: Historia naval de la Guerra Civil

    En 1891 estalló una violenta Guerra Civil en Chile producto de diferencias irreconciliables entre el Presidente Balmaceda y el Congreso Nacional, generándose uno de los conflictos más debatidos por los historiadores. Faltaba una obra dedicada a uno de sus aspectos más importantes: su historia naval. Gran parte de la Marina se volcó en favor del Congreso y la casi totalidad el Ejército actuó en ... Leer más

    $19.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus