Nautical History

We have two sections in the store about this general topic. For purposes of location, vintage books are labeled nautical history, and newer books are put in the Ships, Boats, & Submarines section.

To most of us (the uninitiated), the sailing ships of the past are a thing of myth and romance. We see paintings of graceful ships' hulls cutting through majestic waves, rigging taut and sails billowing. We imagine the freedom of the sea and it stirs something deep within us. There's a yearning to test our mettle, feel our smallness under the open sky and on the open sea, experience the power of the waves as they crash on the deck during a gale.

A lot of nautical fiction tends to focus on the narrow European "age of sail," especially the age of discovery and the epic sea battles of the Napoleanic wars. But, of course, Maritime history is much broader than that. It's an overarching subject that includes lots of topics, like fishing, whaling, international maritime law, naval history, the history of ships, ship design, shipbuilding, the history of navigation, the history of the various maritime-related sciences (oceanography, cartography, hydrography, etc.), sea exploration, maritime economics and trade, shipping, yachting, seaside resorts, the history of lighthouses and aids to navigation, maritime themes in literature, maritime themes in art, the social history of sailors and passengers and sea-related communities.

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Active Filters: 9th grade (Ages 14-15)
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
by Chester G. Hearn
from US Naval Institute Press
for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
All Hands Aloft!
by Lou A. Schmitt
from Howell-North
for 9th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
American Ship Models and How to Build Them
by V. R. Grimwood, foreword by Howard I. Chapelle
from Bonanza Books
for 9th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Arts of the Sailor
by Hervey Garrett Smith
Reprint from Dover Publications
for 5th-Adult
in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Barbary Pirates
Landmark #31
by C. S. Forester, illustrated by Charles J. Mazoujian
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Blackbeard
by Dan Parry
from Thunder's Mouth Press
for 8th-12th grade
in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Blow Ye Winds Westerly
by Elizabeth Gemming
1st edition from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
for 9th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone
from Golden Press
for 4th-10th grade
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
Captain Cook
by Alistair MacLean
from Doubleday & Company
for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas
World Landmark #19
by Armstrong Sperry
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Captain Edward L. Beach: Around the World Under Water
by Beril Becker
from Kingston House
for 6th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Clipper Ship Days
Landmark #22
by John Jennings, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
David Farragut, Sea Fighter
by Marie Mudra, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline
from Julian Messner
for 9th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Design Line: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
by Chris Oxlade, Edited by Jenny Broom, Illustrated by Mike Lemanski
from Candlewick Press
for 2nd-Adult
in Oversized Science Books (Location: SCI-OVER)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Discovery of the Titanic
by Robert Ballard
from Warner/Madison Press
for 6th-12th grade
in Titanic & 20th Century Disasters (Location: HISW-20DIS)
Ferdinand Magellan
World Landmark #31
by Seymour Gates Pond, illustrated by Jack Coggins
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Golden Age of Sail
by Amy Handy
from Todtri Productions Limited
for 7th-Adult
in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
Guns Off Cape Ann
by Kenneth Poolman
from Evans Brothers Limited
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
History of Pirates
by Nigel Cawthorne
from Chartwell Books
for 8th-Adult
in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE)
Illustrated History of Ships and Boats
by Lionel Casson
from Doubleday & Company
for 7th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Illustrated Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
by Owen Chase
200th Anniversary from SeaWolf Press
for 9th-Adult
in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW)
$6.95
In Yankee Windjammers
by Charles Nordhoff, edited by his grandson of the same name
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
for 9th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
Keystone Battlewagon - U.S.S. Pennsylvania (BB-38)
Warship Series #2
by Myron J. Smith
1st edition
for 7th-10th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Kid on the River
by Dean Nichols
1st edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Lexington Goes Down
by A. A. Hoehling
from Prentice Hall
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Log of Christopher Columbus
by Christopher Columbus, translated by Robert Fuson
1992 Printing from International Marine / McGraw-Hill
for 9th-Adult
in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN)
Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age
by Frans G. Bengtsson, translated from the Swedish by Michael Meyer
7th Printing from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 9th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$60.00 (1 in stock)
Lost at Sea
by Ronald Pearsall
from Smithmark Publishers
for 7th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
Man of the Monitor
by Jean Lee Latham
from Harper & Row
for 6th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Marooned
by Robert Kraske; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
from Clarion Books
for 5th-9th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
Mayflower II
from Plimoth Plantation Publication
for 6th-12th grade
in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Men-of-War
by Patrick O'Brian
1st Us Edition from W. W. Norton and Co.
for 5th-10th grade
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$3.00 (2 in stock)
Midway: Battle for the Pacific
Landmark #119
by Edmund Castillo
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Monitor and the Merrimac
Landmark #16
by Fletcher Pratt, illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrove II
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Mutiny of the Bounty
by Sir John Barrow
1st U.S. ed from David R. Godine
for 8th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd
Landmark #122
by A.B.C. Whipple
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd
Landmark #122
by A.B.C. Whipple
from Purple House Press
for 5th-9th grade
in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE)
Naval Warfare
Civil War Chronicles
by John C. Wideman
from MetroBooks
for 7th-Adult
in American Civil War Era (1850-1865) (Location: HISA-19CW)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Paddle-Wheel Days in California
from Stanford University Press
for 8th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Pirate Ship: 1660-1730
by Angus Konstam, illustrated by Tony Bryan
from Osprey Publishing
for 7th-Adult
in Pirates (Location: HISV-PIRATE)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Sailing-Ship
by Romola & R. C. Anderson
from Bonanza Books
for 9th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$5.50 (1 in stock)
Salt-Water Men
Canadian Inheritance Series #1
by Joseph Schull
from Inheritance Publications
for 7th-10th grade
in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
$12.95
San Francisco Bay
by John Haskell Kemble
from Cornell Maritime Press
for 7th-12th grade
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
San Francisco Bay
by John Haskell Kemble
1978 Reissue from Bonanza Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Seabees of World War II
Landmark #103
by Edmund Castillo, foreword by Admiral Ben Moreell, CEC, USN, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Seafaring America
by Alexander Laing
from McGraw-Hill
for 6th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Ships Visual Encyclopedia
by David Ross
from Amber Books
for 3rd-Adult
in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast
by James A. Gibbs
2nd edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Square Sails and Spice Islands
by Laura Long, illustrated by C. B. Falls
from Longmans, Green & Co.
for 6th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Story of Submarines
Landmark #102
by George Weller, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Tale of a Shipwreck
by James Norman Hall, illustrated by W. Alister MacDonald
from Houghton Mifflin
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Twentieth Century Sea Power
for 7th-12th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$1.00 (1 in stock)
Wooden Ships and Iron Men
by Clifford Lindsey Alderman
from Walker and Company
for 8th-Adult
in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)