Archive for Items Categorized 'Maritime', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

by Ian Johnston & Ian Buxton

The battleship as a case study for how it’s made. And why, and by whom. A good, important, useful big-picture book even if the actual pictures are too, too small.

Graveyard of the Atlantic, Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast

by David Stick

The watery graves of some 600 ships aren’t just recorded as dry stats but told here with the pace of a fiction book. If you know water you know what a mighty force it is. If you don’t, just read the book.

A Girl Aboard the Titanic: A Survivor’s Story

by Eva Hart

Written by one of the youngest Titanic survivors this biography deals with the life-altering effect such an event has, traumatic on the one hand but also with the potential for good.

From Ocean Liner to Cruise Ship: The Marine Art of Harley Crossley

by Harley Crossley

Forget paintbrushes! Ever painted with knives?? A practitioner for over 30 years, Crossley is the master—so why is this only his first book??

Flying the Colors: The Unseen Treasures of Nineteenth-Century American Marine Art

by Alan Granby & Janice Hyland

A lusciously rich look at an important era in American ships, illustrated with many artworks from private collections you’d never see on your own, and printed and bound in a book that has few equals.

Figureheads of the Royal Navy

by David M. Pulvertaft

The open sea is a massive force and notoriously superstitious sailors sought to appease it by mounting an offering on the stems of their ships. Thus was born what would evolve into the nautical figurehead, here examined on 350 years of British warships.

Turtle: David Bushnell’s Revolutionary Vessel

by Roy R. Manstan, Frederic J. Frese

This exceptionally well-written book examines what barely amounted to a sideshow during the American Revolution—the first-ever attempt at submarine warfare during the age of sail.

Benetti

by Decio Giulio Riccardo Carugati

If the closest you’ll get to a Benetti megayacht is a book, make it this one—it is as opulent and complex as the ships it celebrates.

The Steamboat Era: A History of Fulton’s Folly on American Rivers, 1807–1860

by S.L. Kotar and J.E. Gessler

“Riverboat’s ‘a commin’!” Everything you wanted to know about pre-1860 steamboats operating on western rivers, and more! Owning a riverboat was a rough and tumble life.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

by Robin Jones 

His career reads like fiction. A 2002 BBC poll voted him no. 2 of the “100 Greatest Britons”—143 years after his death! No “15 minutes of fame” for this fellow, but have you heard of him?

The Last Atlantic Liners: Getting There is Half the Fun

by William H. Miller, Jr.

In an ever-faster moving world, ocean liners could not keep up with jet airliners, no matter their far greater creature comforts and the sheer romance of sailing the high seas. This book shows some of the great boats but explains nothing.

The New Cunard Queens

by Nils Schwerdtner 

If you encounter an ocean liner these days whose name has the prefix Queen you know you’re looking at a Cunarder. This book offers a look at the famous company’s history and its three current flagships.

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