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Clary, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Maritime History in Art 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.41 CLA

Stowe, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOWE, HANNAH STO

Biesty, Stephen

Summary: Takes a detailed look inside a British warship of the Napoleonic age, providing facts about the ship and the people aboard it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 359.1 BIE

Evans, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.2 EVA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.2 EVA

Wilkinson, Alec

Contents: The blessing of the fleet -- The riverkeeper -- The uncommitted crime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WIL

Biesty, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1993

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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 359 PLA

Dutton, Fred W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.704 DUT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.70 DUT

Beck, Horace Palmer

Format: text

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 Beck

Chichester, Francis

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coward McCann 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 CHI

Cogill, Burgess.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 COG

Freeman, Norman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ian Allan 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4092 FRE

Conrad, Joseph

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 CON

Haydamacker, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2009

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Lewis-Jones, Huw

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 910.4 LEW

McPhee, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 MCPH

O'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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 OHA

Stockwin, Julian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STO

Thompson, Mark L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.544 THO

Vann, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 VAN

Villiers, Alan John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1971

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Woodward, Hobson.

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 WOO

Dana, R H

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS Large Print 1987

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910.45 DAN

Greenlaw, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 GRE

Lavery, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 LAV

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