Bartell, Joyce J Editor With A Foreword By Don Walsh & An Introduction By Athelstan Spilhaus

The Yankee Mariner & Sea Power: America's Challenge of Ocean Space

Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1982. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean fine hard cover book/ dust jacket rubbed otherwise a very good dust jacket., Papers from a conference sponsored by the Center for Study of the American Experience, March 1981. Fifteen noted sea specialists examine the diversity of American uses of earth's oceans.

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Book number: 2563171

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 884741052

Chichester, Francis

The Romantic Challenge

NY: Coward McCann Geohegan, 1972. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book/ edgewear on dust jacket spine & short closed tear otherwise very good+ price clipped dust jacket.

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Book number: 605902

Catalogue: Nautical

Gibson, Gregory W/ Ill By Erik Ronnberg & Gary Tonkin

Demon of the Waters: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe

Boston: Little Brown, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The author was given a handwritten journal which contained the first eyewitness account of the notorious & deranged mutiny of the Globe, illustrated.

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Book number: 658104

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 316299235

Gibson, Gregory

The Demon of the Water: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe

Boston: Little Brown, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In 1823, Samuel Comstock led a bizarre mutiny onboard the whaleship, Globe, that ended in the murder of the captain & his officers in the South Pacific. Surviving crewmembers sailed back to South America where a naval expedition set out & apprended Comstock, illustrated.

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Book number: 752251

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 316299235

Holland, Francis Ross Jr

America's Lighthouses: an Illustrated History

NY: Dover Publications, 1988. an unabridged republication of the slightly corrected 1981, Light edgewear otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete very good paperback book in decorative wrappers (softcover book), The first comprehensive study of the United States Lighthouse Service and over 200 of its most famous lights, illustrated.

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Book number: 656458

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 048625576X

John, Anthony edited by Ian Dear

The Early Challenges of the America's Cup (1851-1937)

Sydney: Pierson & Co., 1986. 1st printing of 1st edition., A clean fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The world's most famous sailing race struggled at its outset and only much later did it gain the prominence and prestige associated with it today; 159 pages, illustrated.

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Book number: 2021316

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 0947068007

Jones, Tristan

The Incredible Voyage

Kansas City: Sheed Andrews & McMeel, 1977. 3rd printing., Fine hard cover book/ lightly rubbed otherwise near fine price clipped dust jacket, Jones' six year journey from the lowest body of water in the world in the Dead Sea to its highest at Lake Titicaca in the Andes, illustrated.

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Book number: 657100

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 836207033

Linklater, Eric

The Voyage of the Challenger

London: Cardinal/Sphere Books, 1974. 1st paperback (soft cover) edition., Edgewear & pages slightly darkened otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete good paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Sponsored by the British government and the Royal Society, HMS Challenger began its 68, 000 mile journey to circumnavigate the globe and take scientific measurements & observations of the world's oceans, marine life and climate in 1872, illustrated.

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Book number: 657201

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 351172238

Lundy, Derek

Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1999. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The story of the 1996-1997 Vendee Globe.

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Book number: 657059

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 1565122291

Robinson, Bill

Legendary Yachts

NY: MacMillan, 1971. 1st printing of 1st edition., Light shelfwear otherwise very good+ hard cover book/ no dust jacket., The author examines the differences between a legendary yacht and other lovely, graceful yachts, illustrated.

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Book number: 656997

Catalogue: Nautical

Snow, Elliot

Adventures at Sea in the Great Age of Sail: Five Firsthand Narratives

NY: Dover Publications, 1986. 1st edition thus (reprint of the 1925 edition), Fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)., Five firsthand narratives of life aboard tall ships during the Great Age of Sail.

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Book number: 605926

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 486251772

Biel Steven

Down With the Old Canoe: a Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

NY: Norton, 1996. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., As soon as the great ship sank, the American public insisted that the disaster must mean something.

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Book number: 605901

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 039303965X

Whynott, Doughlas

A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat

NY: Doubleday, 1999. 1st printing of the 1st edition., Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover otherwise fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., In June 1996, not long after he had been diagnosed with cancer, Joel White began the design of W-76, a wooden racing yacht, his last boat, illustrated.

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Book number: 2563052

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 385488122

Whynott, Douglas

A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat

NY: Doubleday, 1999. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ closed dust jacket corner tear otherwise near fine dust jacket., The author recounts the year he spent at the Brooklin Boat Yard observing Joel White designed and later constructed W-76, a wooden racing yacht.

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Book number: 653625

Catalogue: Nautical

Keywords: 385488122