Nautical History

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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All About Sailing the Seven Seas
All About Books #40
by Ruth Brindze
from Random House
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American Sailing Ships - Coloring Book
Dover Coloring Books
by Peter F. Copeland
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Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers
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Arts of the Sailor
by Hervey Garrett Smith
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Barbary Pirates
Landmark #31
by C. S. Forester
from Random House
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Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813
by James P. Barry
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Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone
from Golden Press
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Captain Cook Explores the South Seas
World Landmark #19
by Armstrong Sperry
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Clipper Ship Days
Landmark #22
by John Jennings
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Commodore Perry in Japan
by Robert Reynolds
from American Heritage Publishing Co.
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Design Line: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
by Chris Oxlade, Edited by Jenny Broom, Illustrated by Mike Lemanski
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Ferdinand Magellan
World Landmark #31
by Seymour Gates Pond
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First Ships Around the World
from Lerner Publishing Group
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Historic Sailing Ships - Coloring Book
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History of Pirates
by Angus Konstam
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Illustrated Guide to Sailing Ships
by Christopher Chant
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Indestructible Commodore Matthew Perry
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Ironclads of the Civil War
by Frank R. Donovan
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John Paul Jones
A Discovery Book
by Stewart Graff, illustrated by William Hutchinson
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John Paul Jones, Fighting Sailor
Landmark #39
by Armstrong Sperry
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Lighthouses of America
by Mina Lewiton, Illustrated by Howard Simon
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Making It Go: The Life and Work of Robert Fulton
by Don Herweck
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Men-of-War
by Patrick O'Brian
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Midway: Battle for the Pacific
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by Edmund Castillo
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Monitor and the Merrimac
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by Fletcher Pratt
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Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd
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Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd
Landmark #122
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Nelson and the Age of Fighting Sail
by Oliver Warner
from Harper & Row
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Old Ironsides: The Fighting Constitution
Landmark #51
by Harry Hansen
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On the Shores of the Great Sea
Story of the World Series #1
by M. B. Synge
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On the Shores of the Great Sea
Story of the World Series #1
by M. B. Synge
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Pirates
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Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages
by Valerie Petrillo
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Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude
by Louise Borden
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Sea Disasters
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Seabees of World War II
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Ships at Work
by Mary Elting; illustrated by Manning De V. Lee
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Ships Visual Encyclopedia
by David Ross
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Ships, Sailors and the Sea
Usborne Beginner's Knowledge
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Spanish Armada
by Jay Williams
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Spanish Armada
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Steamboat South
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Story of Old Ironsides
by Norman Richards, illustrated by Tom Dunnington
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Story of Ships
by Frank O. Braynard, paintings by Fouille
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Story of Stephen Decatur
Grosset & Dunlap Signature #29
by Iris Vinton, illustrated by Graham Kaye
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Story of Submarines
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by George Weller
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Story of the Clipper Ships
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein
from Children's Press
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Story of Two Years Before the Mast
by Frank L. Beals, illustrated by E.E. King, original story by Richard H. Dana Jr.
Adapted & Retold from Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.
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Take Command, Captain Farragut!
by Peter Roop, Connie Roop
1st edition
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Tall Ships of the World
by C. Keith Wilbur
from The Globe Pequot Press
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Titanic - Coloring Book
Dover Coloring Books
by Peter F. Copeland
from Dover Publications
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Trail Blazer of the Seas
by Jean Lee Latham
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Yankee Clippers
by Clara Ingram Judson
from Follett Publishing Co.
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You Wouldn't Want to Sail the Seas!
by Written by Peter Cook, John Malam, Jim Pipe, and David Stewart, and Illustrated by David Antram and Kevin Whelan
from Parfait Press
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