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  • Shipwrecks of Massachusetts Bay

    af Thomas Hall ...
    Serier serie Disaster
    Massachusetts Bay stretches along the rocky coast and dangerously sandy shoals from Cape Ann to Cape Cod and gives the Bay State its distinctive shape and the Atlantic Ocean one of its largest graveyards. Author and longtime diver Thomas Hall guides us through the history of eight dreadful wrecks as we navigate around Mass Bay. Learn the sorrowful fate of the Portland and its crew during the ... Læs mere

    83,86 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • The Sea Hunters II

    The second thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other marvels that changed history.For decades, Clive Cussler’s real-life NUMA®, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles ... Læs mere

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  • Sea of Glory

    America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

    **"A treasure of a book."—David McCulloughThe harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.**A New York Times Notable BookAmerica's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more ... Læs mere

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  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

    af Dennis Powers ...
    "Kirkus Reviews" summarized: "Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for ... Læs mere

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  • Leviathan

    The History of Whaling in America

    **A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History"The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick**The epic history of the ... Læs mere

    127,36 kr.

  • The Sea Hunters 2

    The thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other marvels that changed history.For decades, Clive Cussler's real-life NUMA®, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles - both ... Læs mere

    54,94 kr.

  • Sea of Glory

    The Epic South Seas Expedition 1838–42

    This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.The dramatic story of the largest voyage of discovery in the history of the world, this is an astounding tale of courage, arrogance and adventure on the high seas from the author of ‘In the Heart of the Sea’.Headed by the controversial Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and consisting of six ... Læs mere

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  • Sea Wins

    Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy

    af Eric Allaby ...
    We are all drawn to the sea. Those who call the shores of Fundy home take the twice-daily flooding and ebbing of massive tides as a matter of daily routine. But to visiting mariners, the Bay of Fundy posed particular challenges for their sea-borne commerce. Shipwrecks became part of the lore of Fundy life. They were usually enormously dramatic events, too often sadly tragic, occasionally even ... Læs mere

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  • MAYDAY: 99 Disasters and Tragedies on the High Seas

    af Hank Kellner ...
    Even before the "Divine Winds" destroyed Kublai Khan's mighty invasion fleet in 1274 (and right up to the present)the relentless sea has claimed the lives of many thousands of human beings and the ships on which they sailed.Powerful storms have ravaged passenger liners, oil tankers, cargo vessels, and other craft of every description. Human error has led to collisions that resulted in disaster. ... Læs mere

    18,80 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Shipwrecks of Lake Erie

    Tragedy in the Quadrangle

    af David Frew ...
    A history of Lake Erie's most mysterious and notorious wrecks and disappearances.The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden waves and wildly shifting sandbars. The steamer Atlantic succumbed to these conditions when, in 1852, a late-night collision brought sixty-eight of its weary immigrant ... Læs mere

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  • Brilliant Beacons

    A History of the American Lighthouse

    "What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical subject." —Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four VoyagesIn this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history of America itself" ... Læs mere

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  • The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

    The History of the Shipwreck That Inspired Moby Dick

    In 1820, a sperm whale attacked and sunk the Whaleship Essex. 2000 miles off the coast of South America, the crew knew it would be a true feat to survive and make it to shore--any shore.It’s story became legendary; Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about it; Edgar Allen Poe incorporated details of it in his only novel; and, most notoriously of them all, it served as the inspiration for Herman Melville’s ... Læs mere

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