An Atlantic Maritime History
By M Archibald

A popular history of the North Atlantic. Full of fascinating historical information, from the early days of exploration to the grand liners and the desperate days of WW11.

Pb. 192pp 240x170mm illus.

The Annual of the Historic Sailing Ship.
Ed. N. Tracy

Annual publication examines all aspects of maritime warfare and ship development from 1500 to 1860. Includes development, construcation, maritime strategy, naval campaigns, fighting tactics, social life, naval infrastructure, maritime finance, exploration, art and archaeology.

75 illus. 270x200mm 208p Hb

By W. Flayhart
2001
The early history of the American Steamship Company (1870 - 1900). The story of the first American steamship company after the civil war to tival the great European transatlantic companies.

By B. Lavery
1999
The arming and fitting of the English warships in the period 1600 - 1815.

320pp Hb

The True Life of a Naval Legend
By B. Vale
2004
The author of this biography has gone back to original documents, objective contemporary accounts and the work of some of the few scholars who have studied Cochrane's life. The picture that emerges is of a complex figure who saw things in stark contrast and who could exhibit paranoia and jealousy.

234x156mm Hb

By M. Robson
2005
An original narrative integrated with quotations and eyewitness accounts, it offers both the perspective of hindsight and the immediacy of being present.

176p Hb. 246x189mm

By J. Nelson
2007
Benedict Arnold's Navy recounts the courageous and exemplary campaign of Arnold and his cobbled-together fleet of ships against a much superior British force in the Battle of Valcour Island (Lake Champlain) in October 1776.This landmark book shows how Arnold's fearless leadership against staggering odds in a northern wilderness secured for America the independence that he would later try to betray.

Pb.

By D. Parry

The companion book to a major BBC television factual drama starring James Purefoy.

Blackbeard's extraordinary life of excess during the 'golden age of piracy' ignited a reputation that struck terror into men's hearts from Virginia to Barbados

246x189mm 192pp Pb.

The Naval Charts and Maps that have Informed and Illustrated War at Sea.
By J. Blake
2006
Extensive commentary on over 150 fascinating and beautiful maps and charts from a naval perspective.
160p Hb.

The Autobiography of the Shipmaster, John Miller of Edinburgh (1802 - 1883).
Ed. R. Craig
From a chance acquisition of a battered leather-bound notebook, an extensive and extremely well-written narrative was revealed which recounted the life of a midshipman in the East India Company, through to the time when he owned his own vessels and settled in Tasmania.

Hb. 224pp 240x170mm illus.

A Story of Exploration and Innovation
2005
By A. Gurney

' A well researched excursion into an esoteric scientific world.. all the more authoritative because of Gurney's experience as a yacht designer.

Pb. 320p 136x204mm 20 illus.

By McKenna

A unique reference that provides the core of information that is indispensible to understanding maritime history and culture. 3,500 entries describe the ideas, events and individuals that have shaped our maritime language, geography, commerce, warfare, law, literature, art, film and more.

By S. Biel

A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

An intriguing history of the myths and meanings which have come to cluster around the wreck.

320p 140x210mm Pb 22 illus.

by Peter Aughton

Cook made three great voyages into the Pacific and his first in the Endeavour 1768-71 was arguably his greatest feat. This account of the voyage is exhilarating and impressive, imbued with the romance of exploration and discovery.

Hardback, 200pp

An Illustrated Account of Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antartic.

By A. Lansing.

This account of Shackleton's epic 1914 expedition contains awesome photographs of the ice-shapes and the details of their daily activities.

Hb

Ed. D. King & J. Hattendorf

An anthology of firsthand accounts from the age of Nelson.
Hardback version available at £17.99 - e-mail sales@sailingbooks.co.uk if required.
234x156mm 464p Pb

The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring
By R. Woodman

A full account of the development of the ship with an international perspective. 250 colour and b/w illustrations ranging from ship plans, engravings and diagrams to marine oil paintings and photographs of both ships and models.

352p 248x295mm Pb

By Peter Kemp

A full and highly readable biography. Cook made three famous voyages of discovery and was killed by Hawaiian natives during the third.

Pb 398

By J. Winton

Beginning in the reign of King John, through the establishment of the standing navy during the reigns of King Henry V111 and Elizabeth 1, right up to the most recent operations.

By J. Turk
2006

In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanized anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from northern Japan by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In In the Wake of the Jomon, world-class kayaker and science writer Jon Turk relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration, a voyage that Paddler magazine named one of the ten greatest sea kayak expeditions of all time.

Pb. 312pp

A History of Britain and the Sea
By B. Lavery

What does it mean to be an island people? How has the British rich and complex relationship with the sea shaped the national psyche? A beautifully illustrated expolration of the British maritime history sets out to explore these questions.
The reader is led on a journey around the porst and harbours of the British coast, across rivers and canals, to lighthouses and piers and then to the rise of the navy and specialised fisheries, the motive behind exploration.

By B. Lavery

The author relates the naval fiction of Patrick O'Brian and C.S.Forester to the real world inhabited by heroes such as Lord nelson, Sir S. Smith, and Thomas Cochrane. All these individuals and others provided inspiration for O'Brian's character of Jack Aubrey, who inhabited the world of wooden walls, broadsides and the press gang.

224p Hb 270x200mm

A Biographical Study
By R. Eddy

During the Federalist period in the USA, Humphreys designed the first large frigates. Although much criticised at the time, he remained an advocate of heavier, larger ships.

202p Pb

by Brown

Among the 300 books about the Titanic, what is notably absent is an analysis of those ill-fated last hours not through the eyes of an historian or story teller, but through the lens of a mariner and ship handler applying accepted standards of seamanship. This book is probably the first close look at the Titanic disaster by an author with the ship-handling background and knowledge to make an informed reconstruction of the ship's last manoeuvres.

US publication, hardback

By R. Haines

An insight into the experience of steerage emigrants leaving Britain for Australia throughout the nineteenth century. It draws from the letters and diaries of passengers, many of whom write movingly about the illness and deaths of their children and tell of coping with everyday life below decks. Through a combination of passengers' testimonies and official reportage, we learn how the voyages operated.

228x152mm 368pp Pb.
14 b/w maps and illus.

By J. Hood

An epic tale of shipwreck, human endeavour and survival in the age of sail.

By P. Heiney
2005
A captivating celebration of Britains nautical heritage, seen through the astonishing variety of Britain's maritime museums, historic ships and coastal attractions.
This guide covers Britain's 600 maritime ships and museums and gives a fascinating insight into everything from lighthouses and Cornish shipwrecks, to Lord Nelsons birthplace, the Armada's legacy, the tea clippers, Scotish fisheries and much more.
Pb 320p 192x128mm

rrp £12.99 our price £10.49

By A. Nicholson
This book fuses the immediate intensity of the battle with the deeper currents that were running at the time. It has a three-part framework: the long, slow six hour morning before the battle; the afternoon itself of terror, death and destruction; and the shocked, exultant and sobered aftermath, which finds its climax at Nelson's funeral in a snowy London the following January.

Adam Nicolson examines the concept of heroes and heroism, both then and now, using Nelson as one of the greatest examples. A man of complexity and contradiction, he was a supreme administrator of ships and men; overflowing with humanity, charm and love but also capable of astonishing ruthlessness and ferocity. Nelson's own courage, vanity, ruthlessness and sweetness made him one of the great identifiable heroes of English history.

341p Hb

By W. James

Main operations were in the Mediterranean and Baltic. The Navy assisted the Spanish uprising of 1808 and were involved in the Peninsular War 1807/14.

ALSO AVAILABLE VOLUME 1,2,3 and 4. Each volume is the same price. Please order here and confirm which volume you require by email to sales@sailingbooks.co.uk

448p Hb 8 b/w illus. 230x150mm

The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650 - 1815

By B. Tunstall

This book covers the evolution of fighting tactics over the whole period in which the sailing fleet was the major instrument of naval power.

295x248mm Hb

The Ships, Men and Organisation 1793 - 1815

By B. Lavery

The perfect guide for anyone interested in the workings of the great fleet. Eminently readable.

Hb 320p

Ed. by C. White

This book presents about 500 of the most important letters dating from 1777. Written in nelsons free-flowing and conversational style, these letters introduce a real and human figure.

560p 16 colour illus. 24 b/w illus. Hb

By J. Coleman