Age of Sail Nonfiction

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Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days
Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days 4.12 avg rating — 600 ratings
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A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech
A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech 3.83 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
Why Read Moby-Dick? 3.77 avg rating — 4,339 ratings
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The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812
The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812 3.96 avg rating — 588 ratings
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail 3.86 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Erebus: The Story of a Ship
Erebus: The Story of a Ship 4.28 avg rating — 10,835 ratings
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Spanish Seaborne Empire
Spanish Seaborne Empire 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings
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In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon 3.71 avg rating — 749 ratings
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The Great Gamble: Nelson at Copenhagen
The Great Gamble: Nelson at Copenhagen 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The frigate Pallada
The frigate Pallada 3.96 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Marco Polo
Marco Polo liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Other Side Continent
The Other Side Continent really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate
Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate 3.54 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Sailors
Sailors 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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De kleurrijke wereld van de VOC : nationaal jubileumboek VOC, 1602-2002
De kleurrijke wereld van de VOC : nationaal jubileumboek VOC, 1602-2002 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy 4.12 avg rating — 845 ratings
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning 4.33 avg rating — 2,844 ratings
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The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks 3.42 avg rating — 1,448 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Blackbeard: The Birth of America
Blackbeard: The Birth of America 4.12 avg rating — 947 ratings
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Sons of Sinbad: the Great Tradition of Arab Seamanship in the Indian Ocean
Sons of Sinbad: the Great Tradition of Arab Seamanship in the Indian Ocean 4.33 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415 - 1825
The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415 - 1825 4.21 avg rating — 126 ratings
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A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest
A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest 3.60 avg rating — 321 ratings
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John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior
John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Sea Life in Nelson's Time
Sea Life in Nelson's Time 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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De geschiedenis van de VOC
De geschiedenis van de VOC 3.17 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Seafaring Women
Seafaring Women 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Under Full Sail
Under Full Sail 4.19 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina 3.78 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650
The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650 3.82 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Architectura Navalis Mercatoria: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century Naval Architecture
Architectura Navalis Mercatoria: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century Naval Architecture 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
by: Dean King
4.07 avg rating — 12,042 ratings
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Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy 3.67 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Christopher Columbus The Dream and the Obsession
Christopher Columbus The Dream and the Obsession 3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook 4.46 avg rating — 15,141 ratings
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The Bounty Mutiny
The Bounty Mutiny 3.85 avg rating — 3,308 ratings
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Frigates, Sloops and Brigs
Frigates, Sloops and Brigs 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution
A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia 4.01 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Hunting the Last Great Pirate: Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star
Hunting the Last Great Pirate: Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
Captain James Cook: A Biography 4.16 avg rating — 698 ratings
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The Baltimore Clipper: Its Origin and Development
The Baltimore Clipper: Its Origin and Development 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail: 1793-1815
The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail: 1793-1815 4.13 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Captain Blakeley and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814
Captain Blakeley and the Wasp: The Cruise of 1814 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Jack Nastyface: Memoirs of an English Seaman (Bluejacket Books)
Jack Nastyface: Memoirs of an English Seaman (Bluejacket Books) 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad'
Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship `Amistad' 3.50 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson 3.94 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Shipwreck
The Shipwreck 4.04 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 16th Centuries; A Study of Strategy, Tactics and Ship Design.
Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 16th Centuries; A Study of Strategy, Tactics and Ship Design. 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer, and Adventurer
Captain Marryat: Seaman, Writer, and Adventurer 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Nagle Journal: A Diary of the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, from the Year 1775 to 1841
The Nagle Journal: A Diary of the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, from the Year 1775 to 1841 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Devil Himself: The Mutiny of 1800
The Devil Himself: The Mutiny of 1800 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie
Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Columbus and the Conquest of the Impossible
Columbus and the Conquest of the Impossible 3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-of-War 1600-1860, Based on Contemporary Sources
Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-of-War 1600-1860, Based on Contemporary Sources 4.56 avg rating — 84 ratings
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette 4.29 avg rating — 24,755 ratings
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Those Vulgar Tubes: External Sanitary Accommodations aboard European Ships of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries (Volume 1) (Studies in Nautical Archaeology)
Those Vulgar Tubes: External Sanitary Accommodations aboard European Ships of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries (Volume 1) (Studies in Nautical Archaeology) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Chebec Le Requin 1750
Chebec Le Requin 1750 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lost Gold of the Republic: The Remarkable Quest for the Greatest Shipwreck Treasure of the Civil War Era
Lost Gold of the Republic: The Remarkable Quest for the Greatest Shipwreck Treasure of the Civil War Era 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Granuaile: Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen
Granuaile: Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen 3.48 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
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The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson 4.21 avg rating — 332 ratings
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The Discovery of Tahiti
The Discovery of Tahiti 3.80 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The wooden world dissected: in the character of a ship of war: As also, the characters of all the officers, ... By the author of the London-Spy The fourth edition.
The wooden world dissected: in the character of a ship of war: As also, the characters of all the officers, ... By the author of the London-Spy The fourth edition. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Pride of Baltimore: The Story of the Baltimore Clippers
Pride of Baltimore: The Story of the Baltimore Clippers 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy
The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)
The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813) 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A New Voyage Round the World
A New Voyage Round the World 3.91 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Manila Galleon
The Manila Galleon 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Autobiography of a Yankee Mariner: Christopher Prince and the American Revolution
The Autobiography of a Yankee Mariner: Christopher Prince and the American Revolution 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
Tupaia: Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator 4.25 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World 4.06 avg rating — 12,693 ratings
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade 4.04 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes 3.13 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Adventures By Sea Of Edward Coxere: A Relation Of The Several Adventures By Sea With The Dangers, Difficulties And Hardships I Met For Several Years
Adventures By Sea Of Edward Coxere: A Relation Of The Several Adventures By Sea With The Dangers, Difficulties And Hardships I Met For Several Years liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Shipwrecked on the Top of the World: Four Against the Arctic
Shipwrecked on the Top of the World: Four Against the Arctic 3.44 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook 4.33 avg rating — 2,417 ratings
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Ships and Shipwrecks: Stories from the Great Lakes (Greenstone Books)
Ships and Shipwrecks: Stories from the Great Lakes (Greenstone Books) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Sack of Panamá: Captain Morgan and the Battle for the Caribbean
The Sack of Panamá: Captain Morgan and the Battle for the Caribbean 4.02 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Sons of Sindbad : The Photographs
Sons of Sindbad : The Photographs 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The unfortunate shipwright: or, cruel captain. Being a faithful narrative of the unparallel'd sufferings of Robert Barker, late carpenter on board the ... a voyage to the coast of Guinea and Antigua.
The unfortunate shipwright: or, cruel captain. Being a faithful narrative of the unparallel'd sufferings of Robert Barker, late carpenter on board the ... a voyage to the coast of Guinea and Antigua. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition 4.47 avg rating — 3,524 ratings
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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship 3.95 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Pirates' Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America
The Pirates' Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America 3.68 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska 4.33 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Twenty Years Before the Mast
Twenty Years Before the Mast 4.05 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Shipwreck Anthropology (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Shipwreck Anthropology (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade
The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade 3.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations
Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations 4.13 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World 3.75 avg rating — 2,618 ratings
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Regulations and Instructions Relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea. Established by His Majesty in Council. the Ninth Edition, with Additions.
Regulations and Instructions Relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea. Established by His Majesty in Council. the Ninth Edition, with Additions.
by: Various
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival 4.09 avg rating — 12,326 ratings
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A Thousand Ships (Age of Bronze, #1)
A Thousand Ships (Age of Bronze, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 1,533 ratings
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Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery 2.89 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan 3.92 avg rating — 2,116 ratings
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Twenty Years Before the Mast, or Life in the Forecastle: Being the Experiences and Voyages of Nicholas Peter Isaacs; Containing an Account of His Escapes From Wild Beasts; From the Dangers of War; Fro
Twenty Years Before the Mast, or Life in the Forecastle: Being the Experiences and Voyages of Nicholas Peter Isaacs; Containing an Account of His Escapes From Wild Beasts; From the Dangers of War; Fro 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Jeanie Johnston: Sailing the Irish Famine Tall Ship
Jeanie Johnston: Sailing the Irish Famine Tall Ship 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her
Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her 4.21 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy
Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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