The Long Ships

This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England.

DescriptionThe worldwide cruise industry is booming--alone, there are some 56 new cruise ships being built or planned (2016). Cruise ships visit po...

Reducere. Flora Martus lived on Elba Isle near Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1900s. She, her brother, and her father were the lighthouse keepers there, and...

Reducere. The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sud...

DescriptionCork Harbour's association with infamous ships like Titanic and Lusitania ensure its place in world maritime history. While such tragedi...

The sea has played an important part in shaping Britain's identity, and the country has long needed to look outwards, not inwards, for its trade an...

Reducere. Although no battles were fought on Long Island, the Civil War deeply affected all of its residents. More than three thousand men--white and black--...

A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States "Engrossing. . . . Astonishing...

Reducere. The Shinnecock have resided along the shores of eastern Long Island for more than 10, 000 years. These hunter-gatherers were also skilled whalers w...

Everyone has heard of the USS Constitution and the USS Constellation. They were the first two ships commissioned into the United States Navy. But h...

Reducere. To boldly go where no losers have gone before...Some starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilisations. Some...

Reducere. Chicamacomico transports us back to an earlier time on the Outer Banks, when folks on these isolated islands lived by their wits and determination....

During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defences against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. T...

Reducere. Sixteen-year-old Jessie Thompson reluctantly moves with her mother and older sister to Savannah, Georgia, in the summer of 1943 to work as a welder...

The battle of Lepanto has long been considered one of the decisive naval battles of history. Yet, the savage fighting on Sunday, 7 October 1571 lef...

Reducere. The Good Shepherd was described as one of the best novels of 1955. In it, C.S. Forester departs from the age-of-sail Hornblower genre that made him...

Reducere. Today the Port of New York is where container ships and tankers park while waiting to reload and be on their way around the world. Long black tanke...

DescriptionOnce before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxy -- humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gorm -- had united to defeat alien invad...

Reducere. Long before the Jewish settlements in North America, Sephardic Jews came to the Caribbean, first as crew members on Columbus's ships. By the 1600s,...

Reducere. Disc 11. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Remastered LP Version)2. Marrakesh Express (Remastered LP Version)3. Guinnevere (Remastered LP Version)4. You Don't...

September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany b...

Reducere. A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Southampton 1070 Sir Geoffrey Mappestone and his loyal friend Roger seek passage on one of the many ships due to ...

Reducere. Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in Europe. Aro...

Reducere. Meet LONG JOHN McRON, SHIP'S COOK . . . and the most unusual babysitter you've ever seen. Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow, and--f...

Reducere. Hay un nuevo barco pirata surcando los mares, el barco de las Pira as Intr pidas Se est n haciendo famosas, han salvado a gente en peligro y conseg...

Reducere. In 1903, Benjamin Purnell, a long-haired, bearded itinerant preacher, arrived in Benton Harbor. He and his wife, Mary, stepped out of their covered...

This is the story of my Great Grandfather's voyage on a whaling ship from New Bedford to the North Pacific and back from 1842 to 1845. The official...

Reducere. This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries...

Reducere. Description"An award-winning aviation historian chronicles the Navy's efforts to develop a powerful sea-based strike force through the use of long-...

DescriptionAll civilizations have faced the challenges and dangers of trading by sea: storms, bad weather, and the hazards of cliffs, headlands, re...

Reducere. The wide promenade of the boardwalk, the ring of the carnival games and a steaming bushel of crabs all make for an iconic Ocean City summer. Yet be...

Reducere. Voyage through the warm, southern seas with a new whale calf and its mother.Together, Little Whale and Gray Whale swim under midnight skies and thr...

Crowds cheering, trumpets sounding, and cannons firing Follow along as George Washington journeys from Virginia to his inauguration in New York Cit...

Reducere. Long before "The Perfect Storm, " the 1935 August Gale roared northeast. The surf raged along the New York and New Jersey shores as the gale whirle...

Reducere. For nearly three decades, the 1877 sailing ship Elissa has been widely recognized as one of the finest maritime preservation projects in the world....

Reducere. David Childress, popular author and star of the History Channel show Ancient Aliens, brings us the amazing story of the German Andromeda craft, des...

Reducere. Description Will Papa's box of treasures reveal the destiny of his long-awaited girl child? Will the stranger's gold stone that marked her birth be...

Reducere. Long before women had the right to vote, earn money, or have lives of their own, "she captains" -- bold women distinguished for courageous enterpri...

Modern Fortran teaches you to develop fast, efficient parallel applications using twenty-first-century Fortran. In this guide, you'll dive into For...

20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne.Jules Verne's classic science fiction story 20, 000 L...

Reducere. Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteen...

Reducere. DescriptionFor nearly ninety years, lake freighters belonging to the Inland Steel fleet transported the raw materials necessary for the manufacture...

Reducere. I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who ...

Reducere. Description The U.S. maritime industry hit rock bottom starting in the early 1980's, right around the time the author was graduating from the Calif...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most powerful starships ever constructed are taken. Thousands are dead. A fleet is in ruins...Lieutenant Abigail Cage never expected...

Reducere. DescriptionTucked away in a natural port, Mystic has long been home to seagoing adventure. In A History of Mystic, Connecticut, author and former M...

DescriptionIn the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval ...

Reducere. Call to Arms Blood on the Stars II War. The word spreads throughout the Confederation...the long-expected Union invasion has come. The enemy is str...

Reducere. H. Beam Piper's The Cosmic Computer has long been recognized as a science fiction classic and a major foundation of Piper's Terro-Human Future Hist...

Reducere. Long-listed for the NBCC's John Leonard PrizeA Seattle Times Best Book of the YearThe gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of dis...

Reducere. DescriptionORIGINAL TRADE PAPERACK. Steve White, co-author with David Weber of the New York Times best-seller The Shiva Option, joins with Compton ...

Reducere. "Astoria is the gateway by the sea, and Portland is the gateway by land. I suspect that Astoria will not be quiet and obscure for long." -George Fl...

Reducere. How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go "underground" "R...

DescriptionThis is the fully-illustrated story of the Royal Navy's escort carriers which battled against deadly U-Boats during the Battle of the At...

DescriptionFor better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this pr...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as ``freedom's swift-winged angels.`` In 1813 th...

Reducere. Award winning comic writer and artist Wayne Vansant brings his gripping World War II saga of war in the Pacific to Guadalcanal and the Battle of Bl...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the second installment of the unique and extraordinary adventures of long-time insider and survivor, Janis Gillham Grady. For ye...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marina J. LostetterTravel to the remotest reaches of deep space in this wondrous follow-up to the acclaimed Noumenon--a tal...

Reducere. Florida was the third Southern state to secede from the United States in 1860-61. With its small population of 140, 000 and no manufacturing, few C...

Reducere. The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at s...

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ire...

Reducere. Florida has a long and rich history of pirates plundering its shores, cities, and shipping lanes. Tales of Florida pirates abound from Key West to ...

Reducere. Niall O'Byrne's long-awaited story is finally here in Book 3 of The O'Byrne Brides Series, Wild Moonlight!Promised in marriage to a brutal Norseman...

Reducere. Attentive young Sophie lives with her family at a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Superior. At this essential outpost, everyone has a job to do, wh...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of European exploration, mariners have heard tales and relayed their own stories of North Carolina's perilous shoreline. Wi...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of European exploration, mariners have heard tales and relayed their own stories of North Carolina's perilous shoreline. Wi...

Reducere. As opposed to memorizing Spanish phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry Spanish grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader (...

Reducere. Harlem Shadows (1922) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Shadows earned praise from ...

"What is the value of Black life in America?" In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel-the slave ship, ...