A Sailor's Logbook 9780814340905, 9780814328446, 081432827X, 081432844X

Sailors' Secrets: Advice from the Masters 9780070390881

With pithy, often iconoclastic advice on all aspects of seamanship and boat maintenance, Badham and Robinson have distil

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Sailors on the Rocks: Famous Royal Navy Shipwrecks 9781473882485, 9781783400621

For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did Rule the Waves, in the sense that during the numerous wars wit

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Crossing the Equator;: Sailors' baptism and other initiation rites, with a Danish summary

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Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World: Convicts, Sailors and a Dissonant Empire 9781350027367, 9781350027381, 9781350027350

Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World discusses how the storytelling of the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles

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Nelson's Sailors [Warrior Series #100 ed.] 9781841769066, 1841769061

Drawing on many contemporary sources and eyewitness accounts, this book examines the lives of the ordinary sailors of th

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The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors 9781725187535

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Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples 9780824864231

Written by a senior scholar and master mariner, Sailors and Traders is the first comprehensive account of the maritime p

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Sailing Solo: The Legendary Sailors and the Great Races 0071418458

A lavish, full-color chronicle of the most grueling single-handed yacht races in the world Ever since Joshua Slocum circ

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Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution 9780674089174

After 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to figh

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Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica 9780814773345

During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-bo

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