The word 'pirate' conjures up images of the swashbuckling men featured in the likes of Black Sails and Pirates of the Caribbean, but the world of piracy has a centuries-long history that is filled w……続きを見る
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‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ S……続きを見る
This comprehensive reference work describes and illustrates some 200 types of inshore craft that once fished and traded, under oar and sail, around the coasts of the British Isles. The types are arr……続きを見る
Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent marit……続きを見る
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and commu……続きを見る
Donald L. Canneys study is the first book-length history of the U.S. Navys Africa Squadron. Established in 1842 to enforce the ban on importing slaves to the United States, in twenty years time the ……続きを見る
In Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812, archaeologist Kevin J. Crisman and his fellow contributors examine sixteen different examples of 1812-era naval and commercial shipbuildi……続きを見る
