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Late Bronze-Age Metal Artifacts Off Hahotrim, Israel

by Shelley Wachsmann

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 During an inspection dive in 1980 along the Mediterranean coast off of Kibbutz Hahotrim, Shelley Wachsmann discovered artifacts on a section of seabed swept clear of sand by a storm. Scattered around two large stone anchors, the finds consisted primarily of small, broken, or damaged pieces of metal artifacts and ingots.
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From Caligula To The Nazis - The Nemi Ships In Diana'S Sanctuary

by John M. Mcmanamon

~~39,68€~~ 31,74€ 20% OFF

 The saga of Caligula’s barges sunk in Lake Nemi south of Rome—how the huge vessels came to be there in the first place; why they became a cause célèbre for Mussolini’s Fascist regime; how they were, after multiple attempts, recovered from the lake bed; and why they were shortly thereafter destroyed—is, in the words of author John McManamon, a good story that is worth telling: "It has memorable characters, twists and turns in the plot, no lack of conflict and tension, and a dramatic ending where something clearly went wrong." In From Caligula to the Nazis: The Nemi Ships in Diana’s Sanctuary, McManamon takes readers on an excursion through history to the fiery ending of the tale, a journey propelled by narrative energy and enhanced by the fruits of careful research. Related topics include Roman mythology and state religion, the erratic reign of the infamous Caligula, underwater archaeology as practiced during the Renaissance, the ideological exploitation of archaeology by Il Duce and his fascist followers, and a historical whodunit to ascertain the choices that led to the arson of the ship remains. McManamon covers every chapter in the 2,000-year history of the ships and does not ignore the mistaken interpretations that at times led subsequent researchers into blind alleys. In the end, From Caligula to the Nazis provides for both academic specialists and informed general readers the careful unwinding of a centuries-long mystery, replete with heroes, villains, gods, kings, and numerous ordinary folk swept up into the maelstrom.
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From Whaler To Clipper Ship - Henry Gillespie, Down East Captain

by Michael Jay Mjelde

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 Captain Henry Gillespie (1857-1937), of Portland, Maine, went to sea as a young man of 17, serving as "able-bodied seaman" on a New Bedford whaler. Over the next 47 years he would advance to deck officer, then master of sailing and steam ships. He was commissioned as an officer in the US Navy during World War I, commanding vessels operating in the war zone. Following the war, he returned to merchant marine service until his retirement in 1921. Maritime historian Michael Jay Mjelde has chronicled the colorful life and career of this "down-east" man of the sea, mining available first-person accounts, interviews with family members, government records, and maritime archives on both coasts. The result is a narrative in clear, highly engaging prose that puts readers on the tilting decks and noisy wharfs frequented by Gillespie. Through Mjelde’s retelling of a remarkable life, the age of clipper ships, the Cape Horn trade, and oceangoing steamers comes into vivid relief, affording a richly embossed assessment of Captain Gillespie’s life and times. From Whaler to Clipper Ship adds a layer of full-bodied context to our understanding of this pivotal era in American maritime history. The wealth of detail will appeal to scholars, students, and maritime history enthusiasts.
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Studying The Princess Carolina - Anatomy Of The Ship That Held Up Wall Street

by Warren Curtis Riess

~~39,75€~~ 31,80€ 20% OFF

 In January 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation at 175 Water Street in Lower Manhattan found the remains of an eighteenth-century ship. Uncertain what they had found or what its significance might be, they called in nautical archaeologists Warren Riess and Sheli Smith to direct the excavation and analysis of the ship’s remains. As it turned out, the mystery ship’s age and type meant that its careful study helped answer some important questions about commerce and transportation of its day. Given only one winter month for fieldwork, the large crew excavated and recorded the site, which became known as the "Ronson ship site," named for the site’s developer, Howard Ronson. At the end of their time in the field, the crew was able to save the first eighteen feet of the bow for preservation. For Riess, the analysis and conservation of the artifacts would begin. In this book, the follow-up to his 2014 publication The Ship That Held Up Wall Street, Riess presents the technical analysis of the vessel, which he believes to be the Princess Carolina, a merchant ship likely constructed by shipwright Benjamin Austin in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1700s. In doing so, he fills significant gaps in contemporary knowledge of eighteenth-century shipbuilding techniques. Though meticulous in scientific detail, Riess’s style is eminently readable for interested general readers.
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Ships' Fastenings - From Sewn Boat To Steamship

by Michael McCarthy

~~39,75€~~ 31,80€ 20% OFF

 In this second edition, Michael McCarthy extends his thorough treatment of the parts that hold the boat together, offering fascinating descriptions of a range of techniques that span from sewn-plank boats of the ancient world and Micronesia to Viking ships, Mediterranean caravels, nineteenth-century ocean clippers, and even steamships.
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Seagoing Ships And Seamanship In The Bronze Age Levant

by Shelley Wachsmann

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 Presents a comprehensive examination of how the early eastern Mediterranean cultures took to the sea - and how they evolved as a result. The author surveys the blue-water ships of the Egyptians, Syro-Canaanites, Cypriots, Early Bronze Age Aegeans, Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Sea Peoples, and also discusses known Bronze Age shipwrecks.
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Shore Is A Bridge - The Maritime Cultural Landscape Of Lake Ontario

by Benjamin Ford

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 The principle of the ""seamlessness"" of human interaction with the maritime environment undergirds author Ben Ford's sweeping survey. In The Shore Is a Bridge: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Lake Ontario, Ford explores human interaction with the waters of the lake, spanning the international border, from 5,000 years ago to the early twentieth century.
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Nicolaes Witsen And Shipbuilding In The Dutch Golden Age

by A. J. Hoving

~~159,00€~~ 127,20€ 20% OFF

 In Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age, Hoving, master model builder for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, sorts out the steps in Witsen's method for building a seventeenth-century pinas by following them and building a model of the vessel.
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Nautical Archaeology

by Eric Rieth e Patrice Pomey

~~70,30€~~ 56,24€ 20% OFF

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 Originally published as Lâ€™archÃ©ologie navale by Editions Errance/Actes Sud (Arles, France) in 2005, this new revised and expanded edition is in a condensed and accessible form that highlights many of the principles currently guiding research in nautical archaeology around the world.
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Maritime Studies In The Wake Of The Byzantine Shipwreck At Yassiada, Turkey

~~13,24€~~ 10,59€ 20% OFF

 "In association with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology."
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Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding - The Archaeological Study Of Batavia And Other Seventeenth-Century Voc Ships

by Wendy Van Duivenvoorde

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 <DIV>Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia. Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated remains of an early seventeenth-century Indiaman to have been raised and conserved in a way that permits detailed examination, using data retrieved from the archaeological remains, interpreted in the light of company archives, ship journals, and Dutch texts on shipbuilding of this period. Over two hundred tables, charts, drawings, and photographs are included.</DIV>
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Confederate Saboteurs - Building The Hunley And Other Secret Weapons Of The Civil War

by Mark K. Ragan

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 The Singer Secret Service Corps developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices during the US Civil War. In Confederate Saboteurs , Mark K. Ragan presents the untold story of the Singer corps. Ragan also examines the complex personalities and relationships behind the Confederacy's use of torpedoes and submarines.
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Shipwrecked In Paradise - Cleopatra'S Barge In Hawai'I

by Paul F. Johnston

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 The first oceangoing yacht ever built in America, Cleopatra's Barge endured many incarnations over its eight-year life, from Mediterranean pleasure cruiser to a Hawaiian king's personal yacht. The famed ship, at times also a Christian missionary transport, pirate ship, getaway vehicle, instrument of diplomacy, and racing yacht, wrecked on a reef in Hanalei Bay on April 6, 1824. Obtaining the first underwater archaeological permits ever issued by the state of Hawai'i, a team of divers from the Smithsonian Institution located, surveyed, and excavated the wrecked ship from 1995 to 2000.
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La Belle - The Archaeology Of A Seventeenth-Century Vessel Of New World Colonization

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 In 1995 underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of La Salle's La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River. More than two decades in the making, this book thoroughly documents one of the most significant North American archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century.
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Caligula'S Barges And The Renaissance Origins Of Nautical Archaeology Under Water

by John M. Mcmanamon

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 <DIV>Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken ships for 800 years. Having no idea of the size of the objects he was attempting to recover, Alberti failed. For most of the next 500 years, various attempts were made to recover the vessels. Finally, in 1928, Mussolini ordered the draining of the lake to remove the vessels and place them on the lake shore. In 1944, the ships burned in a fire that was generally blamed on the Germans. John M. McManamon connects these attempts at underwater archaeology with the Renaissance interest in reconstructing the past in order to affect the present. Nautical and marine archaeologists, as well as students and scholars of Renaissance history and historiography, will appreciate this masterfully researched and gracefully written work.</DIV>
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Lost Submarines Of Pearl Harbor

by Hans K. Van Tilburg, James P. Delgado, Maximilian D. Cremer, Ole Varmer, Russell Matthews, Stephen Price e Terry Kerby

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 "One of the last remaining and persistent mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack is that of the Japanese Midget Submarines. It is a fascinating story of innovation, courage, secrets, and failed expectations." These words by Daniel J. Basta, Director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, from the foreword of this manuscript, capture both the essence and the impact of this work.
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La Belle - The Archaeology Of A Seventeenth-Century Vessel Of New World Colonization

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 In 1995 underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of La Salle's La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River. More than two decades in the making, this book thoroughly documents one of the most significant North American archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century.
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Serce Limani, Vol 2 - The Glass Of An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck

by Berta Lledo, George F. Bass, Robert H. Brill e Sheila Matthews

~~124,44€~~ 99,55€ 20% OFF

 For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. This work focuses on the excavation, conservation, and study of the glass found in the wreckage.
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Homeric Seafaring

by Samuel Mark

~~49,78€~~ 39,82€ 20% OFF

 In this history of Homer's references to ships and seafaring, author Samuel Mark reveals patterns in the way that Greeks built ships and approached the sea between 850 and 750 B.C. In discussing and clarifying the terms used by Homer, Mark refers to scholarly literature as well as examples from recent excavations of ancient shipwrecks.
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Pepper Wreck - A Portuguese Indiaman At The Mouth Of The Tagus River

by Filipe Vieira De Castro

~~62,20€~~ 49,76€ 20% OFF

 In 1606, a Portuguese ship, Nossa Senhora dos Martires, laden with peppercorns, porcelain, and other products from Cochin foundered during a storm. This is the story of the ship's excavation by crews working in cold water and fast currents between 1997 and 2000.
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Ships' Fastenings - From Sewn Boat To Steamship

by Michael McCarthy

~~53,93€~~ 43,14€ 20% OFF

 In this book, the author offers a description of a range from sewn-plank boats of the ancient world and Micronesia to Viking ships, Mediterranean caravels, nineteenth-century ocean clippers, and even steamships. It will be useful to shipbuilders, historians, and archaeologists. It is also written for the enthusiast and amateur boat builder.
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Serce Limani - An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck Vol. 1, The Ship And Its Anchorage, Crew, And Passengers

by Frederick H. Van Doorninck, George F. Bass, J. Richard Steffy e Sheila Matthews

~~103,69€~~ 82,95€ 20% OFF

 For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation and the conservation of its artifacts.
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The Life And Times Of The Steamboat Red Cloud - Or, How Merchants, Mounties, And The Missouri Transformed The West

by Annalies Corbin

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 Views the development of the Canadian Rockies from a maritime perspective. This book ties the Missouri River's commercial development with the opening of the Canadian West and with the formation of the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. It is useful for readers interested in western history, maritime history, and nautical archaeology.
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Origins Of The Lost Fleet Of The Mongol Empire

by Randall James Sasaki

~~13,24€~~ 10,59€ 20% OFF

 Revision of the author's thesis (M.A. - Texas A&M University, 2008) issued under title: The origin of the lost fleet of the Mongol Empire.
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