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This is an account of an amazing feat accomplished long ago at the turning point in the growth of a young nation's confidence....

In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner....

An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day....

He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century"....

Joshua Slocum was believed to be the first man to sail single-handed around the world....

In Graveyard of the Lakes, Thompson suggests that most of the accidents and deaths on the lakes have been the result of human error, ranging from simple mistakes to gross incompetence....

Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world....

Frank Delaney tells, for the first time, the full story of this unmatched bravery and endurance at sea....

Lin Pardey - renowned for her sailing narratives - takes you on a voyage of the heart, sharing her and her husband Larry's remarkable tale of homesteading with equal parts candor and humor....

A Brief History of the Titanic brings to life the captivating narrative of the world's most famous ship. This book isn't just about a tragedy; it's about the people, the dreams, and the innovations that defined an era.

On November 18, 1958, a 623-foot limestone carrier - caught in one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan history - broke in two and sank in less than five minutes....

A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg....

On November 18, 1958, when the limestone carrier Carl D. Bradley broke up during a raging storm on Lake Michigan, it became the largest ship in Great Lakes' history to vanish....

A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller....

Shortly after the Titanic sank on the morning of April 15, 1912, author Logan Marshall compiled a history of the tragic event. His narrative reads like a novel, yet every word is true....

This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic Wars tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the ship of the line - the deadly battleships that played such a vital role in the battles....

In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the 19th-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades....

On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the army reported that it was under attack....

Built in 1927, the German ocean liner Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the Titanic. When the Nazis seized control, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport....

A cargo ship ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time....