Chris-Craft: The Essential Guide
 Okay, but not what I was looking for.: This appears to be a comprehensive guide to all boats manufactured by Chris Craft, however it did not provide the history or details that I was looking for. Simply provides a one page sheet for each craft detailing [... more]
$49.95
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The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework
great book: This is an excellent resource book and we will use it a lot.... This book should be owned by every sailor: A great book chock full of interesting ideas to make your boat more seamanlike. The definative rope working book. The Arts of the [... more]
$9.95
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Amazon.com Review: Melding superb research and the extraordinary expedition photography of Frank Hurley, The Endurance by Caroline Alexander is a stunning work of history, adventure, and art which chronicles "one of the greatest epics of survival in [... more]
$29.95
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The Ship Model Builder's Assistant
Great Reference Work: After initial chapters on varying types of ship models, including the built-up model and wooden-sail models, the author devotes individual chapters to the masting of ships, mastheads, the standing rigging, the running rigging, foot- [... more]
$12.95
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The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of ...
Amazon.com Review: On April 23, 1913, 24-year-old William McKinlay, a teacher of mathematics and science in Scotland, was finishing dinner when a telegram arrived. Legendary Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, it explained, was planning a four-year [... more]
$12.95
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In Search of Robinson Crusoe
Amazon.com Review: Tim Severin's In Search of Robinson Crusoe is a fascinating melding of literary and bibliographic scholarship and wide-ranging travelogue that seeks out, and discovers, the flesh-and-blood prototypes for Daniel Defoe's famous castaway [... more]
$26.00
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Ship Models: How to Build Them
Excellent primer of ship modeling: Charles Davis is the old grandfather of ship modeling and maritime history. Though much of his work has been since superseded by more recent research, much is still worthwhile today. "Ship Models and How to Build [... more]
$9.95
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Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early ...
Rare book on rarely looked subject: This classic masterpiece deserved reprinted more than anything else and it is done with an excellent expansion, especially on narrated accounts of travellers and geographers of the time. Inside you'll find an [... more]
$22.95
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Naval Ceremonies, Customs, and Traditions
Navy custom explained: This book is clearly inteded as a manual for naval officers. I don't doubt that it would come in useful. It's a true treasure trove of information concerning US Navy custom and traditions. But the best part is the fact that it goes [... more]
$29.95
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Titanic & Her Sisters Olympic & Britannic
Excellent Olympic-class photo reference book: If one is seeking a comprehensive book on the Olympic-class liner, this volume is vital to one's collection. Many rarely-printed images are offered alongside the popular pictures of Olympic, the lesser- [... more]
$29.98
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life ...
Everyone from California should read this: This is a good read for anyone who loves adventure and a great read for anyone interested in Californian history. More to the point, this book was *THE* book on California for Americans living between 1840 and 18 [... more]
$12.95
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying ...
fascinating history: This is a fascinating read, full of details (politics of the time, how ships operate, torture, sexual mores of various tribes around the world, etc.). The story of the first voyage around the world is so amazingly dramatic one would [... more]
$27.95
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