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  • Kirkcaldy Through Time

    de Walter Burt ...
    Series series Through Time
    Kirkcaldy, long known as the Lang Toun, is the biggest town in Fife. Situated on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, it began to develop as a trading port in the sixteenth century, developing further around salt, coal mining and nail making. However, it was the linoleum industry that had the biggest impact on Kirkcaldy; first brought to the town by Sir Michael Nairn in 1877, it was a major ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • Rosyth Dockyard and Naval Base Through Time

    de Walter Burt ...
    Series series Through Time
    With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there. Construction work started in 1909 and the dockyard was finished in 1916, when the pre-Dreadnought HMS Zealandia entered dry dock there. The yard closed in 1925, reopening in 1938 when relations with Germany began to ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

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  • Narrow Margins

    The Narrow Boat Books

    de Marie Browne ...
    Series series The Narrow Boat Books
    Narrow Margins – a laugh-out-loud book which proves that lean times can sometimes be a very positive thing.Faced with the loss of everything following the collapse of the Rover Group, Marie Browne moved her long-suffering husband Geoff, chaotic children and smelly, narcoleptic dog on to a houseboat in search of a less stressful, healthier, alternative way of life.Strapped for cash, the family buy ... Leer más

    $51 MXN

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $69 MXN

  • Coming Back Alive

    de Spike Walker ...
    When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard ... Leer más

    $226 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the Great Lakes

    Based on C.H.J. Snider's "Schooner days"

    For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers. The memory of the romance and elegance of these beautiful ships has almost been forgotten in the search for greater efficiency and speed in our modern world.C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) chronicled this era in his 1,303 "Schooner Days" columns for Toronto's The Evening Telegram ... Leer más

    $124 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Refits, More Ways to Make Your Boat Better.

    Cruising Boats, How to Select, Equip and Maintain, #5

    de John Champion ...
    Series Libro 5 - Cruising Boats, How to Select, Equip and Maintain
    Details the various options of marine refrigeration and the benefits and disadvantages of each. A chapter on hauling out and various issues to consider like staying aboard or moving off for the job. Refitting in Thailand is discussed as a popular, value for money option taken by hundreds if not thousands of boats each year. Access to systems and components is a compromise on most boats, some tips ... Leer más

    $69 MXN

  • German Luxury Ocean Liners

    From Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse to Aidastella

    From the 1890s, the German shipping lines had begun to build the fastest and most luxurious liners. It had started when Kaiser Wilhelm had visited Spithead and been transported on White Star Line's Teutonic and had mentioned that Germany must have ships like this. The first four stacker, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, had been named in his honour and the ships that followed were faster and more ... Leer más

    $443 MXN

  • Sailing Seven Seas

    A History of the Canadian Pacific Line

    de Peter Pigott ...
    Under Canadian Pacific's red-and-white-checkered flag, the company's founders, George Stephen and William C. Van Horne, created a rail-sea service from Liverpool to Hong Kong. Boasting sternwheelers, Great Lakes bulk carriers, ferries, and luxurious ocean-going liner leviathans, the Canadian Pacific shipping line sailed around the globe. In both world wars the entire fleet served gallantly as ... Leer más

    $150 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • On Board RMS Titanic

    Memories of the Maiden Voyage

    de George Behe ...
    ***'It would make the stones cry to hear those on board shrieking'***- Daniel Buckley, third-class passengerFor the first time, in this moving new book, Titanic's passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of that lamentable disaster entirely in their own words.Included are letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs that were written before, during and immediately after the maiden ... Leer más

    $311 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Gaff Rig Handbook

    History, Design, Techniques, Developments

    de John Leather ...
    This is the internationally regarded definitive handbook for anyone designing, building, rigging or sailing gaffrigged craft. It provides a fascinating insight into the design, history,techniques and developments of a rig which has evolved through thecenturies.John Leather outlines the practical aspects of the masts,spars, sails, running and standing rigging, and contrasts thedevelopment of the ... Leer más

    $669 MXN

  • London's Triumph

    Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City

    'Consistently illuminating ... Like all the best stories, it is about the timeless tides of power and influence ... trade deals can sometimes be sexy, thrilling and epic' Sinclair McKay, SpectatorLife in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained ... Leer más

    $199 MXN