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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.96
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.91634
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Publication Date: 2006-09-22
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Based on firsthand accounts and published within weeks of the 1912 tragedy, this dramatic history stands as the most authoritative account of the great marine disaster. Illustrated by 43 vintage images, these reports from survivors form a complete history, from the ship's construction to the tragic aftermath of its sinking.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $84.95
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Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Misc. Supplies
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Author: Eric Sauder::Hugh Brewster
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Edition: Collectors
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Dewey Decimal Number: 745
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Publication Date: 1998-07-01
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Reading Level: 38
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Description: This is not a book but a sturdy, miniature cardboard replica of a steamer trunk such as one that might have gone down on Titanic, complete with mock-metal triangular corner protectors. Inside, there is a trove of reproductions of memorabilia from the Titanic Historical Society to wow anybody fascinated by the shipwreck: a first-class ticket; a "radiotelegramm" from the ship Amerika four hours before the disaster warning of icebergs; the fancy brochure passengers got; the orchestra's repertoire (including "Songe d'Automne," the last tune played); maps of each deck; menus (including that of the last night's fare--not very health-conscious food, actually); adhesive luggage stickers you can apply to your suitcase; reproductions of Titanic postcards--some with greetings that were delivered, some blank and suitable for mailing; a booklet of notes on all the luxuries available to first-class passengers; and a list of all first-class passengers to reassure one of one's high social standing. An irresistible box redolent of another era. --Tim Appelo
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.92
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Manufacturer: Luath Press Limited
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Arthur Swinson
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Publisher: Luath Press Limited
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.14
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Publication Date: 2007-04-01
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Reading Level: 186
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Description: Tells the true story about Whisky Galore boat, the SS Politician, which went down on 4th February 1941 with 240,000 bottles of whisky and GBP3m in Jamaican notes on board.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $0.01
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeremy Seal
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941
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Publication Date: 2003-01-07
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chiefly the town's parson, Robert Hawker, for the Caledonia's demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for "wrecking"--luring ships ashore to loot the cargo--it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow?
Having meticulously researched maritime logs, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative reconstruction in this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind--the sort that really did happen.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.59
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Manufacturer: Avery Color Studios
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frederick Stonehouse
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Publisher: Avery Color Studios
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.123
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Publication Date: 2006-04-30
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Reading Level: 215
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $3.80
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Manufacturer: William Morrow
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Barry Clifford
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Publisher: William Morrow
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 987.54
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Publication Date: 2002-07
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: An extraordinary and dramatic tale of shipwrecks, underwater discovery, and the dawn of the golden age of piracy.On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank in the Caribbean Sea, one hundred miles off the Venezuelan coast, on the killer reef of Las Aves Island. These wrecks, which claimed more than 1,200 lives, proved disastrous for French naval power in the region and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy, an era that was forever to alter the shape of the Americas. In The Lost Fleet, writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford interweaves the dramatic tale of this maritime catastrophe -- and the dangerous upsurge of piracy in the world's seas -- with the contemporary account of his own expedition to document and explore the wrecks.Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'EstrÉes, The Lost Fleet delivers a stunning portrait of a dark age, rich with historical detail and romantic drama. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the outcasts of European society came together to form a democracy of buccaneers, settling on a string of islands off the African coast. From there, the pirates made their fame and fortune by haunting the world's oceans, wreaking havoc on the settlements along the Spanish main and -- often enlisted by French and English governments -- sacking ships, ports, and coastal towns. Now, two hundred and fifty years later, Barry Clifford has followed the pirates' destructive wake around the world all the way back to Venezuela. With the help of a remarkably accurate map, drawn by Jean Comte d'EstrÉes (the captain of the lost French fleet) himself, Clifford was able to locate the exact site of the disaster and the wreckage of the once mighty armada. Beautifully told, epic in scope, and steeped in period detail, The Lost Fleet is a mesmerizing account of historical discovery and underwater reclamation for anyone with a heart for adventure and history, myth, and treasure hunting.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $10.01
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Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert F. Burgess
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Publisher: AuthorHouse
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: 2000-06-20
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Reading Level: 259
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Description: How does a professional treasure hunter get started? How and where does he or she find treasure? Burgess reveals the tricks of the trade through a series of interviews with some of the world's most successful treasure hunters. Enhanced by illustration by Burgess himself, They Found Treasure provides a wealth of information for the curious reader lured by the idea of hunting for and discovering treasure.
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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $10.74
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Manufacturer: William Morrow
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Cameron::Charles R. Pellegrino
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Publisher: William Morrow
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.91634
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Publication Date: 2000-07-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: In his introduction to this book, James Cameron, the director of the hit movie Titanic, remarks that the 1912 sinking of that great ship has yielded more books than all but two other historical events--the life of Christ and the death of John F. Kennedy. Considering that vast ocean of print, it may come as a surprise that there's much left to say about the unfortunate vessel and the iceberg that sent it to the bottom of the Atlantic. But Charles Pellegrino finds an unexplored niche with Ghosts of the Titanic, which mixes the memoirs of survivors with learned speculation on the fate of certain of the ship's passengers--some of them shot to deter a rush on the few lifeboats--to reconstruct just what happened on that fateful April night. Pellegrino also offers an intriguing look at the science behind recent forensic investigations of the Titanic, which have enabled scholars to model the minute-by-minute disintegration of the ship as it slipped into the depths--for, he argues, instead of the "traditional (and mythical) 300-foot-long 'gash' or 'split,' the Titanic was felled by a series of punches, stabs, and bullet hole-like punctures" that allowed 24,000 metric tons of water to enter the ship within minutes of its collision. Along the way, Pellegrino offers asides on such strange phenomena as the deep-ocean bacteria that are slowly devouring the wreckage, and glimpses of the odds and ends (including the well-preserved remains of a last lamb supper) that the ship has turned up. While it's almost certainly not the last word on the subject, Pellegrino's book should appeal to Titanic junkies everywhere. --Gregory McNamee
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Manufacturer: Binford & Mort Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James A. Gibbs
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Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing
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Publication Date: 1968-07
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Reading Level: 288
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Price: $15.98
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Sale: $39.93
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Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Paul Hancock
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Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.704
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Publication Date: 2001-05-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: The Great Lakes--Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario-- bordering Canada and the United States, are collectively the world's largest body of fresh water. Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes is a fascinating account of many of the most disastrous shipwrecks to have occurred in the centuries since the lakes were discovered by Samuel de Champlain. Illustrated throughout, it is organized chronologically, showing that though the construction of ships and their equipment might change, shipping is always at risk from the elements.
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