Maritime History
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A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind
by Preston- Diana/ Preston- Michael
Seventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailed around the world three times when crossing the Pacific was a major feat, was the first explorer to visit all five continents, and reached Australia eighty years before Captain Cook. His exploits created a sensation in Europe. Swift and Defoe used his experiences in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Darwin incorporated his concept of "sub-species" into the theory of evolution. Dampier's description of breadfruit was the impetus for...
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The Empress Of China
by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith
"The Empress of China was the first vessel belonging to the United States of America to initiate trade with the Chinese. Largely financed by Philadelphia merchants, but unable to sail from there due to the freezing of the Delaware River, she departed New York Harbor for Canton on February 22, 1784 and returned in mid-May 1785 with a full lading of teas, silk, porcelain, and other exotic Oriental goods. Although historians have often repeated the general story of the Empress of China's trailblazing...
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Journals and Other Documents On the Life and Voyages Of Christopher Columbus
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Wrecks Along the Great Ocean Road - Shipwrecks On the Victorian West Coast From Point Lonsdale To Portland
by Jack Loney
The Secret Discovery Of Australia Portuguese Ventures 200 Years Before Captain Cook
by McIntyre Kenneth Gordon
The Secret Discovery Of Australia Portuguese Ventures 250 Years Before Captain Cook
by McIntyre Kenneth Gordon
Maritime History Books & Ephemera
Under the Black Flag
by David Cordingly
"This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read." -- Patrick O'BrianPirates are so much a part of legend that it is easy to forget they actually existed. UNDER THE BLACK FLAG tells their story in a rollicking account of the golden age of piracy that is packed with history, anecdote, and above all adventure. Here are the true stories of such bloodthirsty legends as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, and the fearsome Mary Read. And here are...
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