The 100-Gun Ship Victory (Anatomy of the Ship Series)
by John McKay
Listed under Nelson
The
50-Gun Ship (Chatham Shipshape Series)
Rif Winfield
Hardcover, 128 pages
United States Naval Inst.April 1998
ISBN: 1861760256
The
American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction,
and Details
by William L. Crothers
Paperback - 544 pages (February 25, 2000)
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; ISBN: 0071358234
American
Sailing Ships : Their Plans and History
by Charles G. Davis
Paperback - 196 pages (October 1984)
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486246582
American
Clipper Ships, 1833-1858 : Adelaide-Lotus
by Octavius T. Howe, Frederick C. Matthews
Paperback - 928 pages Vol 001 (August 1986)
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486251152
Barrow's
Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy
by Fergus Fleming
Barrow's Boys is historical-adventure literature at its best, recounting
the breathtaking story of Britain's nineteenth-century program of expeditions
to the Arctic, the heart of Africa, and Antarctica. Re-creating both brilliant
success and harrowing failure, Fergus Fleming captures the courageous,
and often insane, passion for exploration of an incredible group of adventurers.
The
Publisher
Paperback - 512 pages 1 Grove pr edition (April 9, 2001)
Grove Press; ISBN: 0802137946
Batavia's Graveyard : The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's
Bloodiest Mutiny
by Mike Dash
Listed under Australian
History
Black
Jacks : African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
by W. Jeffrey Bolster
(Hardcover - May 1997)
The Bounty Trilogy
by Charles Nordhoff & James Hall
An historical novel, upon which was based the Mel Gibson movie.
Listed under The Bounty
Mutiny
Captain Cook's World : Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook
R.N.
by John Robson
Listed under Captain James Cook
Cochrane: the Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain
Robert Harvey
Listed under Lord Cochrane
The
Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War : 1650-1850
by Peter Goodwin
Hardcover (August 1987)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870210165
The
First Atlantic Liners : Seamanship in the Age of Paddle Wheel, Sail and
Screw
by Peter Allington, Basil Greenhill
(Hardcover - September 1997)
Flying
Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman
Who Guided Her
by David W. Shaw
Hardcover - 304 pages 1 Ed edition (June 20, 2000)
William Morrow & Co; ISBN: 0688167934
Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars
by Robert Gardiner
Listed under Nelson & Trafalgar
The
Frigate Constitution and Other Historic Ships
by Alexander Magoun, F. Alexander Magoun
Paperback - 154 pages (December 1987)
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486255247
Hen
Frigates : Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail
Joan Druett
Paperback / Published 1998
Like many of the voyages it depicts, Hen Frigates has doldrums as well
as stretches that move along at a fast clip.... Hen Frigates ... [leaves]
in its wake a valuable collective portrait of intrepid seafaring women--and
an image of domestic challenge that would leave even Martha Stewart spinning.
The
New York Times Book Review, Holly Morris
The
Heyday of Sail : The Merchant Sailing Ship 1650-1830
by Robert Gardiner (Editor),
Philip Bosscher (Editor)
(Hardcover - September 2000)
HMS Victory : Her Construction, Career, and Restoration
by Alan McGowan, John McKay (Illustrator)
Listed under Nelson
In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
The story of a ship sunk by an angry sperm whale which inspired Herman
Melville's classic Moby-Dick.
Listed under Whaling
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower
by C. Northcote Parkinson
Listed under Hornblower
Last
of the Cape Horners : Firsthand Accounts from the Final Days of the Commercial
Tall Ships
by Spencer Apollonio (Editor)
(Hardcover)
Lords
of the East : The East India Company and Its Ships (1600-1874)
by Jean Sutton
(Hardcover - October 2000)
Lords of the Lake : The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812-1814
by Robert Malcomson
Listed under The War of 1812
The
Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War, 1625-1860
by James Lees
Hardcover - 212 pages 2nd Rev edition (December 1984)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870219480
A Most Fortunate Ship : A Narrative History of Old Ironsides
by Tyrone G. Martin
Hardcover - 400 pages Revised edition (May 1997)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557505888
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Books
The Naval War of 1812 (Modern Library (Paper))
by Theodore Roosevelt
Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old,
The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly
triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject.
It caused considerable controversy for its bold refutation of earlier accounts
of the war, but its brilliant analysis and balanced tone left critics floundering,
changed the course of U.S. military history by renewing interest in our
obsolete forces, and set the young author and political hopeful on a path
to greatness. Roosevelt's inimitable style and robust narrative make The
Naval War of 1812 enthralling, illuminating, and utterly essential to every
armchair historian.
Listed under The War of 1812
The Naval Chronicle : The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at
War, 1793-1798
by Nicholas Tracy
Listed under Nelson
Old
Ironsides : Americans Build a Fighting Ship
by David Weitzman
Hardcover - 32 pages (April 1997)
Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0395746787
Old
Ironsides
by Thomas C. Gillmer, William Gilkerson (Illustrator)
Paperback - 256 pages (April 1997)
McGraw-Hill; ISBN: 0070245649
Special Order
Oliver Hazard Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie
by Gerard T. Altoff
Listed under The War of 1812
Pride
of Baltimore : The Story of the Baltimore Clippers
by Thomas C. Gillmer
The
Prize Game : Lawful Looting on the High Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail
by Donald A. Petrie
Hardcover - 224 pages (August 1999)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557506698
The
Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast 1600-1720
by R. C. Anderson
Paperback - 278 pages reprint edition (April 1994)
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 048627960X
Rough
Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
by Joan Druett
Book Description:
"Killing whales is sometimes attended with bad accidents." Dr. William
Dalton, surgeon of the Phoenix
Scurvy. Amputation. Tropical disease. Irritable captains. Mutinous crews.
Such were the trials facing the men who shipped out as doctors on South
Seas whalers in the early nineteenth century.
Having earned a medical degree and a certain station in society, what
type of person would sign on for a dangerous three-year voyage to the other
side of the globe? What types of medicines and surgical tools did these
men have at their disposal? What sort of people did they encounter on remote
South Seas islands? Using diaries, journals and correspondence, Joan Druett
introduces us to extraordinary characters like the tattooed Dr. John Coulter,
forced into tribal warfare by the natives of the Marquesas Islands (later
a successful obstetrician back in England), and the venal Charles Frederick
Winslow, who set up a seaman's hospital on Maui and managed to bilk the
U.S. government out of a sizeable sum. Rich with fascinating detail, Druett
chronicles medicine at sea from the dawn to the demise of the South Seas
whaling trade.
A lively and often darkly humorous tale, Rough Medicine is sure to please
fans of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series and Dava Sobel's Longitude.
Hardcover from Routledge
Book Published: November, 2000 |
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The
Safeguard of the Sea : A Naval History of Britain, 660-1649
by N. A. M. Rodger
Hardcover - 691 pages 1 Amer Ed edition (April 1998)
W W Norton & Co; ISBN: 039304579X
Sailors
: English Merchant Seamen, 1650-1775
by Peter Earle
(Hardcover - June 1998)
Sail's
Last Century: The Merchant Sailing Ship, 1830-1930 (Conway's History of
the Ship)
by Robert Gardiner (Editor)
(Hardcover - September 2001)
A Signal Victory : The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813
by David Curtis Skaggs
Listed under The War of 1812
The Schooner : Its Design and Development from 1600 to the Present
by David R. MacGregor
Hardcover - 192 pages (August 1997)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 155750847X
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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
by John Harland
(Hardcover - August 1984)
Delivery sometimes delayed.
Ships
of the World : An Historical Encyclopedia
by Lincoln P. Paine, Hal Fessenden (Contributor), James H. Terry (Contributor)
Hardcover - 680 pages (November 1997)
Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd); ISBN: 0395715563
Sir Francis Drake : The Queen's Pirate
by Harry Kelsey
Listed under Spanish Armada
2004 Tall Ships Calendar
by Thad Koza
Listed under Nautical
Calendars
Two
Years Before the Mast : A Personal Narrative
by Richard Henry, Jr. Dana
Paperback - 448 pages (March 2000)
Signet; ISBN: 0451527593
The
Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor : Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and
to Practical Seamanship
by Darcy Lever
Paperback - 256 pages Dover edition (July 1998)
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486402207
Warships of the Napoleonic Era (Chatham Pictorial Histories Series)
by Robert Gardiner
Listed under Nelson & Trafalgar
The
Wooden World : An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
by N. A. M. Rodger
Paperback (July 1996)
W W Norton & Co; ISBN: 0393314693
A
War Betwixt Englishmen : Brazil Against Argentina on the River Plate
by Brian Vale
(Hardcover - January 2000)
The Floating Brothel : The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century
Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
by Sian Rees
Listed under Australian
History
Out of Print and Hard to Find Books
American
Clipper Ships, 1833-1858 : Malay-Young Mechanic
by Octavius T. Howe, Frederick C. Matthews
Paperback Vol 002 (August 1986)
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486251160
Special Order
The History of the Ship : The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from
the Earliest Times to the Present Day
by Richard Woodman
Hardcover - 352 pages (February 1998)
The Lyons Press; ISBN: 1558216812
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Books
Spain's
Men of the Sea : Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth
Century
by Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina, Carla Rahn Phillips (Translator), Pablo
Emilio Perez-Mallaina Bueno
Paperback - 320 pages (May 1998)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801857465
Special Order
The
Anglo-Dutch Naval Wars 1652-1674
by D. R. Hainsworth, Christine Churches, Roger Hainsworth, Christine
Church
Hardcover - 224 pages (October 1998)
Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 0750917873
Special Order
The Eyes of the Fleet : A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate
Captains 1793-1815
Anthony Price / Hardcover / Published 1996
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The Line of Battle : The Sailing Warship 1650-1840
by Robert Gardiner (Editor),
Brian Lavery (Editor)
(Hardcover - September 2000)
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