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  • Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia

    by Ric Murphy ...
    Series series American Heritage
    In 1619, a group of thirty-two African men, women and children arrived on the shores of Virginia. They had been kidnapped in the royal city of Kabasa, Angola, and forced aboard the Spanish slave ship San Juan Bautista. The ship was attacked by privateers, and the captives were taken by the English to their New World colony. This group has been shrouded in controversy ever since. Historian Ric ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery

    The African American History of America's Most Hallowed Ground

    by Ric Murphy, Timothy Stephens ...
    From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN

    First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier

    by Ric Murphy ...
    The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, Rear Admiral Lawrence Cleveland Chambers (1929- ) played a prominent role as captain of the USS Midway during the Vietnam War. During the evacuation of Saigon--known as Operation Frequent Wind--he famously ordered several UH-1 helicopters pushed overboard to make room for an escaping South Vietnamese Air Force major to land his Cessna. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • The Canal Guide

    Britain's 50 Best Canals

    by Stuart Fisher ...
    This attractive guidebook shows off just how rich our waterways heritage is. Picking out Britain's 50 most beautiful and interesting canals, Stuart Fisher gives a lively background to the history, wildlife, pubs and nearby attractions of each waterway. Each of the 50 chapters also features a map, colour photographs and a handy info box.Through the beautiful cities of London, Bath and Oxford, ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • Pirates

    Truth and Tales

    by Helen Hollick ...
    The historian R. H. Tawney famously wrote, ‘The sixteenth century lives in terror of the tramp.’ The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps of the seas – pirates. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It was a harsh life for those who went ‘on the account’, constantly overshadowed by the threat of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or the hangman’s noose. The lure of gold ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • The Boat Improvement Guide

    by Ian Nicolson, C. Eng. FRINA Hon. MIIMS ...
    Comfort is not a measureable quality, mainly because it means different things to different people. It also changes according to the weather, the time of year, the size of the boat, the distance from land, the prevalence of seasickness, and the state of the drinks locker. However, sound initial design, good building practice and, if necessary, modifications can make life afloat in cruising yachts ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Global Climate Change and the Shipping Industry

    by Andrew G. Spyrou ...
    Environmentalists want industrialized nations to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that warm the atmosphere. For more than twenty years, however, their pleas have been mostly ignored. Naval architects and ship designers can play a critical role in reducing greenhouse gases by designing effi cient ships that are safe and environment friendly. New innovations would enhance fuel effi ciency and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Wreck, Rescue and Salvage

    by Dick Jolly ...
    After joining the Australian Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen, Dick Jolly trained as an engineer before joining the Australian National Line as a cadet. After a four-year apprenticeship, he gradually gained promotion while travelling around the Australian coast. Fascinated by the world of commercial deep-sea tugs and salvage, his first real break came in Portsmouth in 1963 when he landed a job ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • My Year Before the Mast

    by Annette Brock Davis ...
    In 1933, a young Canadian woman rejected the expectations of society and her upper-class family and became a crew member aboard one of the last great four-masted sailing vessels that still plied the ocean.It was not an easy task. Young Annette had to fight pressures from her family, rejection from schools of navigation, and doubts from ship owners. When she finally found a berth as an apprentice ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ian Nicolson Trilogy

    by Ian Nicolson, C. Eng. FRINA Hon. MIIMS ...
    This trilogy tells how Ian Nicolson, yachtsman, naval architect and author, joined a Canadian and a Norwegian to sail the 45-foot ketch Maken from England via the Panama Canal to Vancouver, Canada. It goes on to describe how Ian returned home from Vancouver: how he hitch-hiked his way between Canada’s east and west coasts, via California; found the bare hull of a 30-foot, 6-inch yacht in a ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Flying Cars, Amphibious Vehicles and Other Dual Mode Transports

    An Illustrated Worldwide History

    by George W. Green ...
    It wasn’t very long after the first commercially viable automobiles came on the scene that ambitious engineers began to dream of vehicles that could travel not only on land but also in the air, or by water. For a century, talented designers have created unique dual purpose vehicles for land, water and air (in various pairings) for both civil and military applications. Sometimes converted from ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Lifeboat Service in South East England

    Station by Station

    by Nicholas Leach ...
    Series series The Lifeboat Service in ...
    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824, and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea; nowhere is this more evident than in the south-east of England. The lifeboats and lifeboat crews from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent have been involved in some of the most dramatic, courageous and daring rescues in the history of the RNLI, and this book provides details of ... Read more

    $12.59 USD