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The Wolf: A Classic Adventure Story of How One Ship Took on the Navies of the World in the First World War

The Wolf: A Classic Adventure Story of How One Ship Took on the Navies of the World in the First World War more

Pre-Owned The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pre-Owned The Last Slave Ship : The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found Her Descendants and an Extraordinary Reckoning 9781982136048 Used

9781982136048. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 304. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America the remarkable town its... more

Pre-Owned The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Flying Cloud : The True Story of America s Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her

Flying Cloud tells the story of how in 1851 navigator Eleanor Creesy traveled from New York to San Francisco in only 89 days on a clipper ship. Shaw s attention to detail gives readers both an intimate chronicle of this extraordinary journey and a... more

To the Moon! : The True Story of the American Heroes on the Apollo 8 Spaceship (Paperback)

The exciting and inspiring true story of Apollo 8 the first crewed spaceship to break free of the Earth s orbit and reach the moon by the best-selling author of Apollo 13. What s more exciting than spaceships and astronauts? How about a spaceship... more

Pre-Owned Quarantine!: How I Survived the Diamond Princess Coronavirus Crisis Paperback Gay Courter

A passenger s story of fighting for her--and everyone else s--rescue from the cruise ship with the first major outbreak of COVID-19 outside China. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the... more

Banned By The BBC! How I Became a Radio Pirate (Paperback)

When the famed pirate-radio ships were banned by the British government in 1967 their legacy was continued by clandestine land-based pirates risking capture at every broadcast to break the BBC s radio monopoly. Written by the co-founder of notorious... more

How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay (Paperback)

Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ship s owner J. Bruce Ismay. In a unique... more

Pre-Owned Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America (Paperback) 0786854995 9780786854998

As the huge ship pulled into New York Harbor Jehuda and his family quickly gathered their few belongings. Looming ahead of them was a giant green statue and beyond lay the huge city. Jehuda thought to himself So this is America! Jehuda and his family... more

Pre-Owned Gray Raiders of the Sea: How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union s High Seas Commerce Paperback

9780807121146. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 448. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 448 p. In this account Chester G. Hearn tells the story of the confederate cruisers - eight ships built mostly in... more

Pre-Owned A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea (Paperback) 1560257105 9781560257103

If you ve ever owned a sailboat or had a friend who did you know how it begins: with a dream. You dream about the ship and gradually the dream consumes you. Practical considerations lose all meaning ... until inevitably the dream morphs into a... more