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 Hands Aloft!
by Lou A. Schmitt
from Howell-North
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
American Fishermen
by Albert Cook Church (photography), text by James B. Connolly
from Bonanza Books
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
American Sailing Coasters of the North Atlantic
by Paul C. Morris, foreword by Edouard Stackpole
1979 Reprint from Bonanza Books
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
American Ship Models and How to Build Them
by V. R. Grimwood, foreword by Howard I. Chapelle
from Bonanza Books
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Arts of the Sailor
by Hervey Garrett Smith
Reprint from Dover Publications
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Blow Ye Winds Westerly
by Elizabeth Gemming
1st edition from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Boatbuilding
by Howard I. Chapelle
from W. W. Norton and Co.
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Book of Old Ships
by Henry B. Culver, illustrated by Gordon Grant
from Dover Publications
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Chapman Piloting
by Elbert S. Maloney
57th edition from Hearst Marine Books
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Clear for Action
by Foster Hailey and Milton Lancelot
Printing D from Bonanza Books
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Clipper Ships
by David R. MacGregor
from Argus Books
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Decorative Arts of the Mariner
by Gervis Frere-Cook (editor)
from Little, Brown & Company
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Deep-Water Sail
by Harold A. Underhill
from Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd.
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$18.00 (1 in stock)
Design Line: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
by Chris Oxlade, Edited by Jenny Broom, Illustrated by Mike Lemanski
from Candlewick Press
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Destroyers for Great Britain
by Arnold Hague
Revised & Expanded from Naval Institute Press
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Disasters at Sea
by Milton H. Watson, foreword by Frank O. Braynard
from Patrick Stephens
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Dynamite Johnny O'Brien
by Milton A. Dalby
from Lowman & Hanford Co.
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$25.00 (1 in stock)
Echoes of the Whistle
by Gerald Rushton, introduction by Leonard G. McCann
from Douglas & McIntyre, Limited
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Experts' Book of Boating
by Ruth Brindze (editor), illustrated by Fred Wellbrock
from Prentice Hall
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Full Fathom Five
by Frank H. Shaw
from Macmillan
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Great Waters
by Creston Donald Ketchum
from Hutchinson & Co.
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Guns Off Cape Ann
by Kenneth Poolman
from Evans Brothers Limited
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
History of the American Sailing Navy
by Howard I. Chapelle
from Bonanza Books
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
How the Merrimac Won
by R.W. Daly
from Thomas Crowell
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Illustrated History of Ships and Boats
by Lionel Casson
from Doubleday & Company
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Illustrated Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
by Owen Chase
200th Anniversary from SeaWolf Press
for 9th-Adult
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$6.95
In Quest of the Sun
The Mariners Library #30
by Alain Gerbault
from Rupert Hart-Davis
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Joshua Barney
by Ralph D. Paine
from Century Co.
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Last Grain Race
by Eric Newby
1st Printing from Houghton Mifflin
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$32.00 (1 in stock)
Lexington Goes Down
by A. A. Hoehling
from Prentice Hall
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Liberty Ships
by John Gorley Bunker
from Naval Institute Press
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Log of "Bob" Bartlett
by Captain Robert A. Bartlett
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Lonely Sea and the Sky
by Francis Chichester
First American Edition from Coward McCann
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
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.
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$60.00 (1 in stock)
Longitude
by Dava Sobel
1st edition from Penguin Books
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Manual of Celestial Navigation
by Arthur A. Ageton
from D. Van Nostrand Co.
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$18.00 (1 in stock)
Mariner of the North
by George Palmer Putnam
from Duell, Sloan and Pearce
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$25.00 (1 in stock)
Medley of Mast and Sail 2
by Alex A. Hurst
from Naval Institute Press
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Of Yachts and Men
by William Atkin, illustrations by Charles G. Davis, introduction by Charles F. Chapman
from Sheridan House
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Oregon Shipwrecks
by Don Marshall
1st edition from Binford & Mort Publishing
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Pacific Lumber Ships
by Gordon Newell and Joe Williamson
1st edition from Superior Publishing Company
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Paddle-Wheel Days in California
from Stanford University Press
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Pathfinder of the Seas
by John W. Wayland
from Garrett & Massie
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Pictorial History of American Ships
by John & Alice Durant
from A.S. Barnes and Co.
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Pictorial History of Outboard Motors
by W.J. Webb with Robert W. Carrick
from Renaissance Editions
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$48.00 (1 in stock)
Piloting, Seamanship, and Small Boat Handling
by Charles F. Chapman
from Motor Boating
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Posted Missing
by Alan Villiers
from Charles Scribner's Sons
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
Principles of Warship Construction and Damage Control
by G.C. Manning and T.L. Schumacher
4th edition from United States Naval Institute
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$19.00 (1 in stock)
Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast
by R.C. Anderson
from Marine Research Society
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$20.00 (1 in stock)
Sailing-Ship
by Romola & R. C. Anderson
from Bonanza Books
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$5.50 (1 in stock)
Scott's Voyage of the Discovery
by Captain Robert F. Scott
from John Murray
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Sea and River Pilots
by Nancy Martin
from Terence Dalton Limited
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Sea Life in Nelson's Time
by John Masefield
from Macmillan
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Sea Trip in Clipper Ship Days
by Mary Matthews Bray
from Gorham Press
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Seafaring America
by Alexander Laing
from McGraw-Hill
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Ships
by Tom McCluskie
from Chartwell Books
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Ships
Man in Motion
by C. Hamilton Ellis
from Peebles Press International
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Ships and Cargoes
by Joseph Leeming
1st edition from Doubleday, Page & Company
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Ships Through the Ages
by Douglas Lobley
from Octopus Books Limited
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Sons of Sinbad
by Alan Villiers
from Charles Scribner's Sons
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$35.00 (1 in stock)
South Sea Shilling
by Eric Swenson
First Edition from Viking Press
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Steam and Sail in Britain and North America
by Rear Admiral P.W. Brock and Basil Greenhill
1st edition from Pyne Press
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Tall Ships
by Maldwin Drummond, illustrated by Mike Willoughby, Foreword by H.R.H the Duke of Edinburgh
First American Edition from G.P. Putnam's Sons
for 10th-Adult
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Ted Brewer Explains Sailboat Design
by Ted Brewer
from International Marine / McGraw-Hill
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Thirty Years of The American Neptune
by Ernest S. Dodge, editor
from Harvard University Press
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$7.00 (1 in stock)
This People's Navy
by Kenneth J. Hagan
from Free Press
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Two Years Before the Mast
by Richard Henry Dana Jr., illustrated by E. Boyd Smith
from SeaWolf Press
Autobiographical Narrative for 10th-Adult
in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW)
$12.95
Victorian & Edwardian Sailing Ships
by Basil Greenhill & Ann Giffard
1981 Reprint from Naval Institute Press
for Adult
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
We, the Navigators
by David Lewis
from University Press of Hawaii
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Westcoasters
by Tom Henry
from Harbour Publishing
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$10.00 (1 in stock)
Western Port Ferries Past and Present
by Arthur E. Woodley
from Hill of Content
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Winning the War with Ships
by Admiral Emory S. Land, introduction by Gen. Charles A. Lindbergh
1st edition from Robert M. McBride & Co.
for Adult
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$48.00 (1 in stock)
Wooden Ships and Iron Men
by Clifford Lindsey Alderman
from Walker and Company
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Yankee Sails the Nile
by Irving and Electa Johnson
1st edition from W. W. Norton and Co.
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Yankee Skippers to the Rescue
by Felix Riesenberg, Jr.
1969 Reprint from Books for Libraries Press
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$12.00 (1 in stock)