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               The Voyage of the Narwhal
               Barrett, Andrea

 W.W. Norton First Edition 1998                                       
New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
Part adventure narrative, part love story, this extraordinary chronicle captures a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the mystery of the Arctic.
SAIL,NAVIGATION,SAILING SHIPS,ARCTIC,MARITIME,NINETEENTH CENTURY, ADVENTURE,EXPLORATION                                                                          Book# 3858, 3859 		US$16.50


               Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
               Clancy, Tom

 Berkley 1993                                       ISBN  0425138739
Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. A rare glimpse inside a Los Angeles-class (SSN-688) nuclear submarine...with Tom Clancy as your guide.
U. S. NAVY,SUBMARINES,NUCLEAR WARSHIPS,U. S. MILITARY                Book# 5527 		US$8.95

         
               Tales of the Sea
               Conrad, Joseph

 Castle 2002                                      ISBN  0890098018
New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
A collection of Conrad's powerful and beautifully-written sea stories including LORD JIM, TYPHOON, CHILDREN OF THE SEA, HEART OF DARKNESS and others.
LITERATURE,SAILING SHIPS,AGE OF SAIL,ADVENTURE                           Book# 6734 		US$14.00


               The Conway History of Seafaring in the Twentieth Century
               Conway Maritime Press

 Brassey's 2000                                      ISBN  1574883178
Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with very slight edge wear; in a clear protective cover.
A retrospective look at developments in ships and shipping over the years of the twentieth century...All aspects of international shipping are covered - both naval and commercial. Illustrated.
SHIPS,SHIPPING,MARITIME,NAVIES,NAVAL WARFARE,MERCHANT MARINE,INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE,LINERS                                             Book# 6466 		US$15.00
    

               Life and Death in a Coral Sea
               Cousteau, Jacques-Yves with Philippe Diole

 Doubleday Fourth Printing 1974                                    
Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.DJ with slight wear and a small closed corner tear; now nicely held in a clear protective cover.
This book describes a world that few men have ever seen - an undersea world filled with structures of greater beauty, complexity and vastness than anything ever built on land. Richly illustrated with drawings, maps and B&W and many color photographs. Translated from the French by J.F. Bernard.
MARINE LIFE,MARINE STUDIES,MARINE BIOLOGY,RED SEA,INDIAN OCEAN,CALYPSO,UNDERSEA EXPLORATION,BIOLOGY,ZOOLOGY,
ADVENTURE,EXPLORATION                                                                                     Book# 3378 		US$15.00


               Splintering the Wooden Wall: The British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815
               Dudley, Wade G.
 Naval Institute Press First Printing 2002   ISBN: 155750167X
 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Full cloth binding. Unmarked.
 DJ with two tiny corner nicks; in a clear protective cover.
 An account and study of the British Naval Blockade of the United States during the War of 1812. Illustrated.                      
 AMERICAN HISTORY,NAVAL HISTORY,MILITARY HISTORY,WAR OF 1812,SAILING SHIPS,MEN OF WAR     
 Book #7734		  
US$15.00
    

           
               The Early Republic and the Sea: Essays on the Naval and Maritime History of the Early United States
               Dudley, William S. and Michael J. Crawford

 Brassey's First Paperback Edition 2001                   ISBN  1574883720
New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
A multi-disciplinary group of distinguished scholars explores the rich diversity of the early republic's seafaring heritage.
AMERICAN HISTORY,U.S. NAVY,CONFEDERACY,SLAVERY,SLAVE TRADE, EXPLORATION,SAILING SHIPS                                                                                 Book# 5491 		US$14.50


               Delilah
               Goodrich, Marcus
 Time-Life 1981   ISBN: 0809436477
 Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 Set in 1917, Delilah is the story of an aging destroyer and of her men as they scour the South Pacific
 in search of stockpiled arms.                      
 WORLD WAR I,U.S.NAVY,SOUTH PACIFIC,FICTION       Book #7180		  
US$8.00
    
         

               The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
               Greenlaw, Linda

 Hyperion First Paperback Edition 1999                            ISBN  0786885416
Very Good Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps and a tiny number written on reverse of front wrap. Small soiling of two pages. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
"In his number one bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as 'one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast.' Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East Coast, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick."
ATLANTIC OCEAN,THE SEA,SWORDFISHING                                                   Book# 4231 		US$5.75

           
               The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island
               Greenlaw, Linda

 Hyperion 2002                                     ISBN  0786885912
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
The Lobster Chronicles is a must-read for everyone who loves boats and the ocean (and lobsters), everyone who has ever reached a crossroads in life, and everyone who has wondered what it would be like to live on a very small island.
BIOGRAPHY,ADVENTURERS,THE HUNGRY OCEAN,SWORDBOATS                                                                                                                                                                                 Book# 6393 		US$7.50

         
               The Custom of the Sea
               Hanson, Neil

 John Wiley & Sons 1999                                      ISBN  0471399779
Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Tiny spots on several pages. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked.
 A terrifying, true-to-life account of peril on the high seas - and of the electrifying murder trial that shocked the world. Illustrated.
SHIPWRECK,SURVIVORS,SAILING SHIPS,CANNIBALISM,MIGNONETTE                                                                                                                                                                       Book# 6390 		US$10.00

         
               Limeys: The True Story of One Man’s War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy
               Harvie, David I.

 Sutton Reprinted 2002                                       ISBN  0750927720
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 In the three centuries prior to 1800, it has been estimated that scurvy killed at least two million sailors. Limeys is the dramatic history of Dr. James Lind’s heroic efforts to find a cure for this “dreaded disease”. Illustrated.
MEDICINE,HISTORY OF MEDICINE,SCURVY,VITAMIN DEFICIENCY,
VITAMIN C,BRITISH HISTORY,ROYAL NAVY                                                    Book# 6859 		US$14.00

       
               My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn
               Hays, David and Daniel Hays

 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Fourth Printing 1995                     ISBN  1565121023
Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a tiny, closed tear of back flap; in a clear protective cover.
“Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Some play baseball. David and Daniel Hays decided to sail a tiny boat 17,000 miles to the bottom of the world and back.” 
ADVENTURE,SAILING,SAILBOATS,CAPE HORN,VOYAGES                         Book# 6867 		US$10.00

         
               My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn
               Hays, David & Daniel Hays

 HarperPerennial 1996                                      ISBN  0060976969
New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
"My Old Man and the Sea will be read 100 years from now..It will make you cry and smile and exult." ___William F. Buckley
ADVENTURE,MARITIME,NAVIGATION,SAILING,SAILBOATS,PACIFIC OCEAN,TIERRA DEL FUEGO,PANAMA CANAL,GALAPAGOS ISLANDS,
STRAIGHT OF MAGELLAN,FALKLAND ISLANDS                                            Book# 4572 		US$9.75


              The Story of the Clipper Ship
              Heatter, Basil
 Barnes & Noble 1996   ISBN: 0760700087
 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
 Here is the history of the clipper, from the launching of Donald Mckay’s first design in 1846 to the final victory of steam over sail.
 It is also an exciting portrayal of the era when no man was a real sailor until he had rounded Cape Horn, and when ships raced
 one another to the Orient to capture the tea trade.                     
 YANKEE CLIPPERS,BALTIMORE CLIPPERS,CAPE HORN,FLYING CLOUD,DONALD MCKAY,NINETEENTH CENTURY     
 Book #7713		  
US$10.00
     


               The Frigates: An account of the lesser warships of the wars from 1793 to 1815
               Henderson, James
 Wordsworth Military Libraray 1998   ISBN: 1853266930
 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 Light, swift, daring: frigates were the cruisers of Nelson’s navy, commanded by bold, young, courageous officers,
 ranging the oceans of the world alone or in packs, seeking the enemy - and usually finding him. Illustrated.                     
 MILITARY HISTORY,NAVAL WARFARE,ROYAL NAVY,MEN OF WAR,SAILING SHIPS,
 NAPOLEONIC WARS,NELSON       Book #7503		  
US$10.00
    
         
     
               Nelson: The Immortal Memory
               Howarth, David and Stephen Howarth

Lyons 1999                                       ISBN  155821979X
New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Lower edge remainder mark.
 Here, from two of the United Kingdom's finest naval historians, is an immensely human portrait of Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant and most honored naval leader Britain has ever known. Illustrated.
BRITISH HISTORY,NAVAL HISTORY,ROYAL NAVY,NAPOLEONIC WARS,ST. VINCENT,BATTLE OF THE NILE,TRAFALGAR                                                 Book# 4481 		US$11.00


               In Hazard
               Hughes, Richard
 Time-Life 1982   ISBN: 0809437309
 Near Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Minor creasing of wraps - else Fine. Spine is uncreased.
 Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 A story of the Archimedes, a freighter, caught in the Caribbean in the worst hurricane in recorded history.
 By the author of A High Wind in Jamaica.                       
 THRILLERS,HURRICANES,MARITIME,CARIBBEAN,SHIPWRECK       Book #7183		  
US$8.00
    
         

               The Perfect Storm
               Junger, Sebastian

 HarperPerennial 1999                                       ISBN  0060977477
Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight fore-edge spotting - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
"October, 1991. It was the 'perfect storm' - a tempest that may happen only once in a century - a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse."
HURRICANE,TYPHOON,MARITIME,THE SEA,SHIPS,BOATS,ATLANTIC OCEAN                                                                                                                                                          Book# 2574 		US$7.50

           
               The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
                Junger, Sebastian
HarperPerennial 1999    ISBN: 0060977477
Near Fine Trade Paperback. The very slightest creasing of wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
It was “the perfect storm” - a tempest that may happen only once a century - a nor’easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse.                  MARITIME,FISHING BOATS,COMMERCIAL FISHING,SHIPWRECK,COAST GUARD,RESCUE,GLOUCESTER,MASSACHUSETTS       Book #6959		 US$4.75
    

           
               The Perfect Storm
               Junger, Sebastian

 HarperTorch 2000                                      ISBN  006101351
Very Good Mass Market Paperback. Gentle creasing of spine and a small scuff of wraps - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" - a tempest that may happen only once in a century - a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Illustrated.
MARITIME,THE SEA,SHIPS,NAVIGATION,STORMS,ATLANTIC OCEAN                                                     Book #4315 		US$3.95


               The Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard
               Ledyard, John (edited by James Zug)
 National Geographic Society 2005   ISBN: 0792293479
 New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Unmarked.
 A collection of the writings of the great, but little-known, early American adventurer who sailed with Captain James Cook,
 formed a fur trading company with John Paul Jones, and dreamed with Thomas Jefferson of exploring the western
 United States 20 years before the Lewis and Clark expedition.                      
 ADVENTURE,EXPLORATION,ADVENTURERS,AMERICAN HISTORY,COLONIAL AMERICA,CAPTAIN JAMES COOK,
 JOHN PAUL JONES,THOMAS JEFFERSON       Book #7619		  
US$10.00 
   
         

               The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
               Maas, Peter

 HarperCollins First Edition 1999                            ISBN  0060194804
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
On the eve of World War II, America's newest submarine plunges helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their wives and girlfriends waited in nearly unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend on one man. 
SUBMARINES,SUBMARINE RESCUE,SWEDE MOMSEN,SQUALUS,U.S.NAVY,
DIVING BELLS                                                                                                                 Book# 6285 		US$15.95


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