Clary, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maritime History in Art 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.41 CLAStowe, Hannah
Summary: "As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOWE, HANNAH STOBiesty, Stephen
Summary: Takes a detailed look inside a British warship of the Napoleonic age, providing facts about the ship and the people aboard it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 359.1 BIEEvans, Siân
Summary: "In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Maiden Voyages explores how women's lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province ofthe great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were transformed by their journeys between the Old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.2 EVAWilkinson, Alec
Contents: The blessing of the fleet -- The riverkeeper -- The uncommitted crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WILBiesty, Stephen.
Summary: Text and cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 359 PLADutton, Fred W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.70 DUTBeck, Horace Palmer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published for the Marine Historical Association, Mystic Seaport, by Wesleyan University Press 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.364 BeckChichester, Francis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward McCann 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 CHICogill, Burgess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 COGFreeman, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ian Allan 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4092 FREConrad, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 CONHaydamacker, Nelson.
Summary: From the Publisher: Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women-the unsung heroes of the job world-toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats. With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand offers an insider's view of both the mundane and the intriguing duties performed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2009
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Summary: "In this remarkable collection of illustrated private journals, log books, letters, and diaries, we follow firsthand the voyages of intrepid sailors from the frozen polar wastes to South Seas paradise islands. And we meet a fascinating cast of real characters: officers and crew, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers- including Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 910.4 LEWMcPhee, John
Summary: This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 MCPHO'Hanlon, Redmond
Summary: The author describes his odyssey aboard a deep-sea fishing trawler from the northern coast of Scotland and his adventures with the ship's captain and five-man crew through the North Atlantic at the height of a terrifying storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 OHAStockwin, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STOThompson, Mark L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.544 THOVann, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 VANVilliers, Alan John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1971
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Contents: Poet of London -- Aboard for Jamestown -- Ocean bound -- Hurricane -- Rogue wave -- Devil's land -- Angel's garden -- New life -- Rebellion -- Away to Virginia -- Relief from home -- Forest people -- Blood in the snow -- Poison -- Bound for England -- Blackfriars surprise -- Bermuda ghosts -- After the storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 WOODana, R H
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS Large Print 1987
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910.45 DANGreenlaw, Linda
Summary: The bestselling author's sequel to "The Hungry Ocean" is a fast-paced account of her return to swordfishing. Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey, "Seaworthy" is Greenlaw's compelling narrative about a person setting her own terms and finding her true self between land and water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 GRELavery, Brian.
Contents: Naval fact and naval fiction -- The world of the seaman -- The ships -- Officers -- The lower deck -- Techniques -- Life at sea -- Enemies and allies -- The navy in action -- The experience of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2003