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Provides a detailed look into the history and technical development of the sailing vessels from a primitive beginning to the present day. Includes sail powered warships, merchant ships, and smaller craft used for fishing and coastal trading. Illustrated throughout by renowned technical artist John B... More

All the individual aircraft described here are pictured in one or more drawings by the world famous technical artist John Batchelor, and their stories are outlined in informative text and specifications by renowned aviation historian Malcome V. Lowe.All the individual aircraft described here are pic... More

Here is an authentic account of a brief, momentous event that preceded India’s Independence fifty years ago. This is a personal account by the author, a junior naval officer at the time, caught by chance at the centre of the disturbances in Bombay, and it indicates their far reaching implicationsâ... More

In "Extreme Aircraft! Q&A" Check out cool Smithsonian websites and exhibits throughout the book Meet a Smithsonian Specialist See fabulous close-up photos Read extremely fun facts about aircraftIn "Extreme Aircraft Q&A" Check out cool Smithsonian websites and exhibits throughout the book Meet... More

In the century since this book was first published much has been written about the greatest sea battle of the age of sail, but very little of it in English is from the perspective of the defeated. This gives the work an enduring value to all but those with access to French and Spanish naval archives... More

Steam engines beauties with fire in their bellies, evoke nostalgic journeys down the memory track! The book showcases some of the beauties which are out but not over as yet. One of the most comprehensive books on the subject, it captures some special moments with these wonderful works of art. These ... More

This book details the risky business of aviation through case studies of Singapore Airlines, British Airways, Southwest Airlines, Jet Airways, Indian Airlines, AirTran Airways, Air Deccan, Boeing and Airbus, Lufthansa Cargo AG and Indian LCCs. Issues explored are the capital-intensive nature of the ... More

The volume contains of Alain Willaume's striking visual images and an introductory essay and also the text of 2 probing discussions. The discussion engage with a range of questions and issues thrown up by the photographs.Paperback... More

This volume explains the evolution of maritime strategy through the twentieth century, and concludes with some speculations about its future in the next century. The forms and practices of navies and maritime strategy are analysed through the development of eight historical and contemporary topics d... More

"Crouch (A Dream of Wings) interweaves family drama with the history of aviation in a riveting saga of ingenuity, competing claims, public adulation and technical innovation".--Publishers Weekly. Photographs.The reissue of this definitive biography heralds the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wright... More

"In real life-especially off the Florida coast-things can have fatal consequences. Fatal Treasure is a truly compelling read." -Aphrodite Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Sacrifice and All She Wanted In 1622, hundreds of people lost their lives to the curse of the Spanish galleon At... More

Captain Bligh and the voyage of the Bounty are the starting point of this new study of the famous mutiny in history, literature and film. By juxtaposing an account of the mutiny with an analysis of its evolving place in history and culture, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language offers a new interpretation of the... More

Gurney chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger.COMPASS CHRONICLES the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect ... More

"A stupendous feat of reportage." -Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desperate Hours "Goldstein's book is packed with detail. . . . This description of the Doria's sinking is especially moving." -The New York Times "A stupendous feat of reportage. Goldstein has virtually put u... More

In the tradition of Walter Lords A Night to Remember, a dramatic moment-by-moment account of the greatest peacetime sea rescue in history Advance Praise for Desperate Hours "A stupendous feat of reportage. Goldstein has virtually put us into lifeboats and sent us hurtling into the North Atlantic on ... More

Vitus Jonassen Bering (1681-1741) is a towering figure in the history of exploration. In the course of two expeditions that consumed most of his adult life--and eventually led to his death--he journeyed from St. Petersburg to Siberia and ultimately to the northwest coast of America. Along with the m... More