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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
434 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism...
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 8
Description
“In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941 . . .”
May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp...
May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp...
Author
Pub. Date
20150723
Description
Ray A. Northup moved with his family at the age of 16 to the western edge of Washington's Olympic Peninsula in 1895. At various times, he homesteaded in that area, but for many years was lured away from the land to the sea, working aboard bar tugs on Grays Harbor and on the Columbia River. He served at both the Westport and Neah Bay lifesaving stations. He was an engineer for lighthouse tenders and the Merchant Marine during World War I, and an engineer...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery -- but it sent one of the largest concentrations of sea captains and U.S. merchant mariners of any community in America to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs...
Author
Series
Pirates of the Caribbean volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 653 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Jack Sparrow is a merchant seaman for the East India Trading Company. His ship is attacked by pirates and he is suddenly in command. He then is made commander of the ship the Wicked Wench, by Cutler Beckett who sends Jack on a voyage to an island called Zerzura to find treasure.
11) Shōgun
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (547 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or shōgun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.
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