Sea Room: Clearance Sale.

Special Sale for the Nautical Research Guild

Ignore the price indicated on list--you may buy one of these bonus books for $5.00 with each purchase of any other book on the main list over $25.00 at the listed sea-room discounted price (yourprice). You can find the main catalog at http://www.sea-room.com/catalog-books.html. Quantities are limited and you may indicate a second or third choice in case your first choice is gone. All bonus books must be selected from this list. No bonus book will be backordered. In the event your bonus book is unavailable, I will call you to request another choice.

Revised: March 31, 2009

Alaskan Maritime

by Jim Gibbs, --More than 250 photographs of Alaskan sailing vessels, ports, lighthouses, and historical figures are featured, along with an intriguing text. Gibbs relates the epic stories of Alaska, unusual shipwrecks, and a history of the cruise industry and modern cargo transport.. Schiffer, , 311 photos, 8.5 X11. P, List Price $29.95, Your price $16.75, Book Number B00697. Go top.

Birds of Prey

by , --The year is 1667; Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of South Africa. They are lying in wait for one of the treasure laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient. So begins a quest for adventure and the spoils of war that sweeps them from the settlement of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia far to the north--at a time when international maritime law permitted acts of piracy, rape, and murder otherwise punishable by death. Wilbur Smit introduces a generation of the indomitable Courteneys and thrilllingly re-creates their part in the struggle for supremacy and riches on the high seas.. , , , 6.5 X9.5. H, List Price $25.95, Your price $14.00, Book Number B00585. Go top.

Bride's Passage; A,

by K. Petroski, --Perhaps a few of us can identify with the circles frequented by Jack Aubrey and Stephen but for the rest of us, Susan Hathorn's diary in Catherine Petroski's hands provides insights into middle class life among the merchant sailors of New England in the 1850s. Catherine, a no*v*elist, augments the year, 1855, of Susan's diary with devoted research that provides preamble and epilogue to the larger story probably not known to Susan. For example, the appearance of cholera in Richmond may have been one of the reasons for Susan's honeymoon cruise with her captain husband. Perhaps more literate than most women of her time as a Mount Holyoke Seminary graduate, Susan takes care to record this year at sea. Through it and Catherine's work at presenting the material coherently we see the daily life of a not-quite-ordinary young woman through her own words and we see how her life and position shaped character, a character that supported her through a life with some tragedy and some joys.. Northeastern U. Press, 1997, , . P, List Price $15.95, Your price $8.25, Book Number B00292. Go top.

Captain's Castaway

by Angeli Perrow, --Based on the true story of Seaboy, a friendly seafaring dog. When his vessel is wrecked in a storm he crawls ashore on nearby Great Duck Island and is found, barely alive, by Sarah, the lighthouse-keeper's daughter. Two years pass, and the dog settles in happily with his new family. Then, a ship's captain arrives, home from distant seas. It is Seaboy's owner, delighted to find his old friend. A grief-stricken Sarah must reconcile herself to the loss of a loyal companion, but in the end the castaway himself decides where he really belongs.. DownEast Books, , Color Illus, Ages 5-8, 8.2 X11. H, List Price $15.95, Your price $7.95, Book Number B00632. Go top.

Captain's Daughters, Coasterman's Wife

by Joan Druett, --Joan Druett's continuing study of women who went to sea in the nineteenth century now includes this little book that follows Carrie Hubbard Davis of Orient, Long Island, on short voyages across Long Island Sound aboard small coasting vessels between 1877 and 1880.. Mystic Seaport, 1995, 30, 6 X 9. P, List Price $9.00, Your price $4.50, Book Number B00854. Go top.

Celtic Ring; The

by Bjorn Larsson, --On a dark night in the Danish harbor of Dragor, Ulf is handed a log-book by a lone sailor who then disappears. The log leads to a dangerous winter crossing of the North Sea to Scotland in the 31-foot yacht Rustica. On the way through the Caledonian Canal, the first unlikely accident occurs and soon Ulf is involved with arms smugglers and a Druidic cult and some of the most dangerous sailing areas in the world.. Sheridan House, 1997, , 5.5x8.5. P, List Price $14.95, Your price $8.05, Book Number B00846. Go top.

Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian 1809-1922

by James Tertius de Kay, --His Majesty's Frigate Macedonian was launched at Woolwich in 1810, at the height of the wars against Napoleon, and burned in the Bronx in 1922. She is barely remembered today, but in her time the Macedonian was recognized the world over as the most important prize ever taken by the American Navy--a distinction she holds to this day. Her capture from the British in the War of 1812 was proof of American daring and skill, and it was largely thanks to her cachet as a trophy ship that she served so prominently in the events that defined her times, including the liberation of Latin America, the war against the slave trade, the great Irish famine, and the Civil War.. W. W. Norton, , index, photos, 5.5X8. P, List Price $15.95, Your price $8.60, Book Number B01087. Go top.

Custom of the Sea; The

by Neil Hanson, --On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southhampton, England, bound for Sydney, Australia. Halfway through the 12,000 mile voyage, Captain Tom Dudley and his three-member crew were beset by a monstrous storm and the Mignonnette was sunk by a massive forty-foot "Freak" wave. Cast adrift a thousand miles from landfall with no food or water, Captain Dudley and the crew endured a horrific twenty-four day ordeal. Cannabilism may have saved the survivors but once safe, they were the subject of a murder trial that enthralled the public. The author provides a reconstruction of the facts from many sources including the trial.. John Wiley, , 35, 8.5X9. P, List Price $15.95, Your price $8.60, Book Number B00960. Go top.

Daring the Sea: The True Store of the First Men to Row Across the Atlantic

by David W. Shaw, --Extraordinary, true story of the first men to row across the Atlantic. In 1896 two Norwegian-Americans, George Harbo and Frank Samuelson, set out from New York in response to a newspaper challenge. They made it to England in only 55 dramatic and hardship-filled days. The record still stands. Mike Bosworth, a modern chanteyman knows the song as "Harbo and Samuelson". The song was written by Jerry Bryant of Massachusetts in the 1980's [... with] the refrain, which is rather catchy: We'll see you in France or we'll see you in heaven; Cried Harbo and Samuelson out on the bay.; Two hardy young oystermen after adventure,; And no one believed they could row all the way.. Birch Lane, 1998, 35, 6 X 9. H, List Price $19.95, Your price $11.15, Book Number B00601. Go top.

Deadeye

by Sam Llewellyn, --Lawyer Harry Frazer is on holiday singlehanding Green Dolphin up the wild West Coast of Scotland towards the Three Bens Race and a potential investor. But smooth sailing it isn't when Harry's sweet-tempered 45-foot cruiser racer is plowed into by an unlighted trawler on a mysterious nightime mission. The collision knocks a trawler's crewhand into the cold, churning waters and Harry dives into the sea to save him and finds himself deep in a mystery.. R. Hale, 1992, 25, 4.25X6.75. P, Your Price $4.99, Book Number B00494. Go top.

Departure

by Janet Stevenson, --In 1851 Amanda Bright sails from Boston with her husband, Jonathan, captain fo the merchant ship Maria M. Warned that it is no place for a woman, she finds instead a challenging new world, one she discovers a talent for. On the leg from Hawaii to North America disease strikes leaving Jonathan and the first mate delirious with fever. Amanda must act quickly to avert mutiny and a dangerous landfall but the story continues when Jonathan recovers and must accept an independent wife.. , , , 5.5 X8.5. H, List Price $14.95, Your price $8.35, Book Number B00586. Go top.

Doctor Dogsbody's Leg

by James Norman Hall, --Dr. Dogsbody is a peg-legged old salt who never lets truth ge in the way of a good story. Here, his vivid tales recreate the Napoleonic Wars with broad comedy, rollicking adventure and memorable characters.. H. Holt, 98, Heart Of Oak, 5.5 X8.5. P, List Price $13.00, Your price $7.25, Book Number B00468. Go top.

Endurance

by F. A. Worsley, --First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Frank worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the entire history of exploration. (See also Worsley's Shackleton's Boat Journey.) A preface by Patrick O'Brian draws special attention to Worsley's devotion ot his friend in both writing the book and their life outside the adventure story.. W. W. Norton, , Preface by POB, Jellicoe, 5.5 X8.3. P, List Price $13.00, Your price $7.00, Book Number B00775. Go top.

Endurance

by Frank Worsley, --First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Frank worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the entire history of exploration. (See also Worsley's Shackleton's Boat Journey.) A preface by Patrick O'Brian draws special attention to Worsley's devotion ot his friend in both writing the book and their life outside the adventure story.. W. W. Norton, , 20 Illust., 6.1 X 9.3. H, List Price $25.95, Your price $14.50, Book Number B00562. Go top.

Fatal Cruise Of The Argus: Two Captains In The War Of 1812; The,

by Ira Dye, -- The commanders of the Argus and the Pelican meet in battle, 1813. As close to hand-to-hand fighting as the navy gets.. Naval Institute Press, , , 6 X 9. H, List Price $37.95, Your price $21.25, Book Number B00135. Go top.

Female Tars--women Aboard Ships In The Age Of Sail

by Suzanne Stark, --Women on board ships of the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail? Stark provides judicious answers to why hundreds of prostitutes swarmed about ships, why they submitted to this degradation, why the navy permitted it. She also describes the wives of warrant officers and seamen who spent years at sea and fought beside the men, the women in male disguise, how they avoided discovery, and the reasons why women enlisted when men had to be impressed. Stark's attempts to disentangle fact from myth will provide the reader with primary sources--including excerpts from the autobiography of Mary Lacy, who rose from ship carpenter's servant to shipwright in the 12 years she served.. Naval Institute Press, , 25, 6 X 9. H, List Price $26.95, Your price $13.45, Book Number B00233. Go top.

First Saratoga; The,

by , --Neither John Young, twenty-third captain in the US Navy, nor Sloop-of--War Saratoga have been given the recognition due they for their achievements in the Revolutionary War. Sailing out of Delaware River ports Saratoga engaged heavily armed British vessels in spectacularly successful encounters, capturing 12 prizes. While in the shelter of the Loire, refitting as a brig, Young and John Paul Jones received the first official salute from a foreigh power to the Stars and Stripes. In 1781, during a West Indian storm, she disappeared with all hands.. , , 25, . P, List Price $14.95, Your price $7.75, Book Number B00270. Go top.

Flying Cloud

by David W. Shaw, --With a subtitle of "The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided her," the book aims for one closer to the lubber end of sea knowledge than the shellback end. Nevertheless it is a compelling story of a woman and a ship. Eleanor Cressy navigated the Flying Cloud to San Francisco around the Horn in a record-setting eighty-nine days. Shaw, who also wrote of Samuels and Harbo, the first to row across the Atlantic, seems particularly well suit to write of true stories where the elements challenge the individual. Eleanor's skills with longitude were matched by her skills in dealing with the many other adventures such a cruise would have.. Morrow, , glossary and sail diagrams, 6.5 X9.5. H, List Price $26.00, Your price $14.55, Book Number B00840. Go top.

Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail

by Joan Druett, --First-person accounts from the remarkable wives of merchant captains who shipped aboard with their huspands, enduring the trials and dangers and reaping the rewards of their unusual lives at sea.. Simon & Schuster, , , 6 X 9. H, List Price $25.00, Your price $14.00, Book Number B00615. Go top.

Ill-starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin

by Anthony J. Brown, --Amid the Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), France and Britain dispatched rival voyages of discovery to complete the mapping of Australia and "advance the limits of science." Led by naval captains Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, both expeditions carried safe-conducts protecting them from seizure by the ships of the opposing navies. Ill-Starred Captains is the first book to explore the two voyages together in detail. Published in association with the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, it represents a major addition to the records of maritime history.. Stackpole, 2000, 30, 6.5x9.3. H, List Price $32.95, Your price $16.45, Book Number B01199. Go top.

Injured Honor--the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, June

by Spencer C. Tucker, --POB readers vicariously felt the emotions of the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair from both sides. The facts briefly: the US Chesapeake surrended and turned over crew members to the British that the HMS Leopard demanded. But the action exacerbated passions that eventually led to War of 1812. In this book we gain a full description of the controversial surrender at sea, a comprehensive summary of the naval and diplomatic history of this period, and fascinating details from the court martial proceedings of the Chesapeake's officers. Many historical figures have roles in this drama: Jefferson, Madison, King George III, Lord Grenville, John Jay, and Napoleon.. Naval Institute Press, , 35, 6 X 9. H, List Price $35.00, Your price $18.90, Book Number B00234. Go top.

Last Mutiny: A Novel; The,

by Bill Collett, --Contemporary writers are looking at Bligh with fresh eyes and this current novel hardly sanctifies him while permitting him to have a last say. Imagine it is 1817 and Bligh is reviewing his life. Like most of us, he can't separate his problems from the fact that he is the problem. Bligh survived several mutinies, not just one but there is always the last mutiny. Yet pause with me and read his epitaph: Sacred to the memory of William Bligh, Esq. F.R.S., Vice Admiral of the Blue. The celebrated navigator who first transplanted the breadfruit tree from Otaheite to the West Indies. Bravely fought the battles of his country; and died beloved, respected and lamented, on this seventh day of December, 1817. Aged 64.. W. W. Norton, 1995, 35, . H, List Price $23.00, Your price $12.40, Book Number B00039. Go top.

Log of the Skipper's Wife; The

by James W. Balano, --The candid witty diary of that Dorothea Balano kept of her travels with her husband, the Captain, aboard a Maine schooner that plied the trade routes from Maine to Puerto Rico in the early decades of this century. (See CD of same title.). DownEast Books, , photos, . P, List Price $10.95, Your price $5.90, Book Number B00630. Go top.

Maritime Memories Of Puget Sound

by Jim Gibbs, --Photographs from the historical collection of Joe Williamson. 335 old photographs of ships, people, and early towns and the text ties ship and shore together in the story of the settling of this vast woodland area.. Schiffer, , 335 B/w Photos, . P, List Price $19.95, Your price $10.35, Book Number B00377. Go top.

Midshipman Quinn Collection; The

by Showell Styles, --Four novels in one omnibus book. Age of Nelson and Napoleon, 1803. The English Navy stands alone against the might of Bonapartist France. Midshipman Septimus Quinn of his Majesty's frigate Althea has newly shipped for the Mediterranean. Though rather small and studious (and only recently a landlubber), Quinn is prepared to do his duty in whatever adventures may come his way. The capturing of informants, the assault of fortresses (mixed with a little knight-errantry), mighty sea battles with Spanish treasure ships, brushes with pirates, espionage and hurried journeys in Republican France, desperate rescue attempts against impossible odds--all these are met with a cool hand and spectacled eye. Young adult. Four complete books in one: Midshipman Quinn, Quinn of the Fury, Midshipman Quinn & Denise the Spy, Quinn at Trafalgar.. Bethlehem Books, , Four novels in one cover, 6X9. P, List Price $19.95, Your price $9.95, Book Number B00799. Go top.

Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

by Thomas Heffernan, --A bloody mutiny on a whaling journey, followed by an incredible tale of survival on land and sea. Samuel Comstock knew he was born to do some great thing, but his only legacy was a reign of terror. Two years out of Nantucket on a whaling voyage, he organized a mutiny and murdered the officers of the Globe. It was a premeditated act: in his sea chest Comstock carried the seeds and tools with which he would found his own island kingdom. Witness and chronicler of the mutiny was Comstock's horrified brother.. W. W. Norton, 2002, , 6.3X9.3. H, List Price $24.95, Your price $12.45, Book Number B01094. Go top.

Mutiny, A History Of Naval Insurrection

by Leonard F. Guttridge, --This fascinating study provides a casebook of mutinies that have occurred throughout the world over the past two hundred years.. Naval Institute Press, 1992, 40, 6 X 9. H, List Price $29.95, Your price $14.95, Book Number B00368. Go top.

My Old Man And The Sea

by David Hays And Dan Hays, --Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Some play ball. David and Daniel decide to sail 17,000 miles to the sailor's nemesis at the bottom of the world and back. On this voyage the father relinquishes control, the son becomes the captain, and before long they are utterly alone, with only the huge waves of Cape Horn, the unceasing wind, a compass, a sextant, a pet cat, and the tiny boat they've built together. Lots of detailed and useful maps, diagrams. Pleasant little summaries of the Cape, its history, its feel, its explorers, and the regular traffic. Many "right on" quotes, touching stories, and wonderful scenes. "The next three hours take about four days. All the lines are tangled, all thirteen feet of the whisker pole swings at me, sails drag through the water. I fall twice. I am filled with a pulsing anticipation of the moment we will hit the beach or some rocky outcrop. I cannot see the land and I do not know where I am on the chart." "How full of meaning and menace is the sound of those two words: Cape Horn! What a vast and terrible cemetery of seamen lies under that eternally boiling sea! ... Lives there a sailor, who would not have made a Cape Horn passage in his own small vessel rather than any other voyage in the world?" Vito Dumas. Algonquin, , 45, 5 X 8.5. H, List Price $19.95, Your price $9.95, Book Number B00001. Go top.

Nautical Antiques

by Robert W. D. Ball, --This beautiful volume illustrates hundreds of nautical treasures, items related to lives of seamen in past generations. Included are a variety of scrimshawed items, sailor-made hip models, nautical instruments and aids, nautical and whaling implements, furnishings and accessories, ship's figureheads, stern boards and billet heads, ship's journals, ephemera, paintings, and much more. A useful price guide is included.. Schiffer, , 387 Illus., 8.5 X11. H, List Price $39.95, Your price $22.35, Book Number B00372. Go top.

Naval Shipbuilders of the World: from the Age of Sail to the Present Day

by Robert Winklareth, --From the construction of primitive war galleys in the first millenium BC to today's most technically advanced warship, historians have paid almost exclusive attention to the famous ships and their naval battles. This book fills a void in maritime history by providing comprehensive information on the shipyards--past and present--that built those ships. Concentrating on the last three hundred years, the author includes a concise history of the world's major naval shipyards, a map showing their locations, and for certain key shipyards, a diagram showing the general layout of the facilities. In addition, he covers warship evolution from wood and canvas to steam, steel, and electronics, as well as the concurrent changes in building methodology. Tapping a wide variety of international sources, this survey adds a fresh and fascinating perspective to the epic quest for seapower. Generously illustrated with photographs, maps and plans, it will be a welcome addition to any naval history bookshelf.. Naval Institute Press, , , . H, List Price $46.95, Your price $23.45, Book Number B00784. Go top.

Naval Warfare Under Oars: 4th to 16th Centuries

by Rodgers, --A study of ship design, strategy, and tactics of warfare under oar-power ranging from the oar-driven galleys of the late Roman empire to the ships comprising the Spanish Armada in 1568.. Naval Institute Press, 1967, 43 illus,11 maps, . H, List Price $38.95, Your price $21.00, Book Number B00837. Go top.

Oooh, You New York Girls

by Stuart M. Frank, --Subtitled "The Urban Pastorale in Ballads and Songs about Sailors Ashore in the Big city," this lively monograph investigates Jack's adventures ashore in the lyrics of more than a dozen last-century sailor's songs. (Also see Sea Room's Shanties and Sea Songs). Accompanying the lyrics are Dr. Frank's comments on the women and saloons, ports and streets described; on variations in song lyrics, and on characteristic themes and styles.. Mystic Seaport, spiral bound, 25, 8.5 X 11. P, List Price $8.50, Your price $4.25, Book Number B00464. Go top.

Pacific Square-riggers: Pictorial History Of The Great Windships Of Yesteryear

by Jim Gibbs, --A complete look at the Downeasters, seamen's missions and boarding house crimps, runners, as well as the great Star Fleet and well-known cannery vessels. . Schiffer, , 345 B/w Photos, . P, List Price $19.95, Your price $9.95, Book Number B00200. Go top.

Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the US Navy to the Nuclear Age; The

by Jeffery M. Dorwart, --A history of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the ships built there, and its role in all the US wars.. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2000, Maps, Illus, Notes, Index, . H, List Price $45.00, Your price $22.50, Book Number B00955. Go top.

Pitcairn: Port of Call

by Herbert Ford, --A fine history of Pitcairn Island that reflects its mystique as the Mutiny on the Bounty island and the extraordinary story of humans isolated by guilt, the Pacific, and the passage of time--perhaps in that order. The book reflects current research results and provides a thought provoking insight into the lives and motivations of those who stay on the island despite the daily hardships. Many illustrations and an almost daily log of the island's contact with outsiders, underscoring their utter dependence on visiting ships.. Hawser Titles, 1996, illus., 7.5 X9.3. P, List Price $19.95, Your price $9.95, Book Number B00638. Go top.

Porto Bello Gold

by Arthur Douglas Howden Smith, --A prequel before the word was known. Takes place a few years prior to Treasure Island and tells how Capt. Flint and Murray raided the Spanish Gold Galleon and buried their ill-gotten treasure on Dead Man's Chest. Is anyone out there ready to re-read Treasure Island?. McBooks, 1999, , 5.5 X8.5. P, List Price $14.95, Your price $8.05, Book Number B00660. Go top.

Prize of All the Oceans; The

by Glyn Williams, --Graced with praise from POB, this page-turning history of Anson's voyage expands the pleasure of both The Golden Ocean and The Unknown Shore. The power of the sea and man's fragility as he confronts it are terrifyingly portrayed in this rousing, historic round-the-world treasure hunt. In 1740, in the first year of war with Spain, Commodore George Anson set sail with a squadron of six British warships. His secret mission, prowling the world's longest, richest, most far-flung ocean trade route, was to seize the legendary Spanish galleon on her yearly voyage from Acapulco to Manila laden with Peruvian silver, "the prize of all the oceans."It was to be a four-year litany of hardship, disaster, mutiny, and heroism. Only one ship, Centurion, achieved its goal; the others were wrecked, scuttled, or forced back in tatters. Of more than 1900 crewmen, almost 1400 perished of disease or starvation. Historian Glyn Williams's The Prize of All the Oceans shapes Anson's dramatic voyage into a powerful narrative threaded with incisive analysis and commentary. At its center is a colorful portrait of a commander who hauled ropes alongside his men, tended their sickness, and watched them die by the hundreds--but never wavered in his resolve to capture the prize that would bring him untold wealth and return home triumphant. Anson's voyage would change the course of naval history. Glyn Williams tells the full story for the first time in a book that will rivet historians and armchair survivalists alike. About the Author: Glyn Williams is Professor Emeritus of History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, the University of London, and specializes in the history of exploration. He is the author of The Voyages of Captain Cook, The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters 1570-1750, and Ruling Britannia: A Political History of Britain 1688-1988.. Viking Penquin, 2000, Maps, illus., index, 6.5X9.5. P, List Price $14.00, Your price $7.00, Book Number B00005. Go top.

Quest For Glory: John A. Dahlgren: A Biography Of Rear Admiral John A

by Robert Schneller, --A harrowingly realistic tale of eighteen-century life at sea. "Bontepelli's sea differs widely from mine, but ... none can deny that it is described with a most common vigor and conviction," Patrick O'Brian. Naval Institute Press, , , . H, List Price $35.00, Your price $18.20, Book Number B00121. Go top.

Safeguard Of The Sea: A Naval History Of Britain 660--1649; The

by N. A. M. Rodger, --Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have been a weakling among the nations of Europe, could never have built or maintained the empire, and in all likelihood would have been overrun by the armies of Napoleon and Hitler. N. A. M Rodger has produced a superb work, combining scholarship with narrative, that demonstrates how the political and social history of Britain has been inextricably intertwined with the strength, or weakness, of her sea Power. "An uncommonly valuable book ... The most authoritative and enjoyable text on the subject that can be imagined." --Patrick O'Brian. W. W. Norton, 1998, , 6.13X9.25. P, List Price $17.95, Your price $8.95, Book Number B00769. Go top.

Salt Letters; The

by Christine Balint, --1854. Sarah flees her home for the uncertainties of life in the new colony. In steerage she joins the other unmarried women, where the horrors of their close confinement bring an unraveling of secrets no one can control. Sarah endures, longing for her mother's forgiveness and the sweetness of her cousin Richards's breath. She's haunted by the letter she can not write home and hullucinatory visions induced by heat and doldrums. An excerpt, " The tiny ocean at my feet is growing larger. Each day the spray leaves its mark higher and higher up the walls. I have come to realize that he vessel is not the solid home upoon the ocean we have been led to believe. Our direction is determined only by a sskeleton of tangled ropes and the angles of the canvas. Yesterday on of the main sheet sails was blown right off the ship and into the water. A sailor dived after it and wrapped it arond himself to carry it back on board. But as the sailor climbed the ladder, the sheet caught on a nail and was torn. The captain is very angry.". W. W. Norton, 2001, 30, 5.3x8. P, List Price $12.00, Your price $6.70, Book Number B01003. Go top.

Sarah's Boat: A Young Girl Learns The Art Of Sailing

by Douglas Alvord, --A illustrated children's book. Sarah's grandfather supports her interest in sailing and provides a first sailing boat provides basic sailing instruction for both Sarah and the book's reader. Splendid graphics both tell the story and explain the nautical terms and sailing concepts presented by the author. Sarah's friendly but slow Puddleduck becomes the butt of jokes by the boys preparing for the big end-of-summer sailboat race. Sarah and her grandfather's competitiveness lead them to the restore an old, but much faster, sailboat. The two work hard to prepare the boat for the race and Sarah's practice provides the experience necessary to become a credible contender. The pleasant ambiance of a small New England town during the summer months radiates throughout the book.. R. Hale, 1994, First Editions, Illustrated., 10 X 7. H, List Price $16.95, Your price $9.15, Book Number B00203. Go top.

Sea Serpent Journal, Hugh Mcculloch Gregory's Voyage Around The World On A Clipper Ship, 1854-55; Th

by Robert H. Burgess, --Two stories exist side by side in this book: both begin in the middle and end in the middle. As plot-less as Two Years before the Mast and just as fascinating, Hugh, class of '56, Trinity College, Hartford tells a story of a cruise around the world and the editor tells about the Sea Serpent, a clipper ship contemporary of The Flying Cloud and Ariel. Routine days, hardship days, adventure, and the "stuff of life" flow from this 19 year old's pen page after page. A Preface describes the history of the journal, an introduction provides a summary of the Sea Serpent's career.. Mariners' Museum, 1975, 22 Illust. Sail Plan, Chart Of Voyage, Glossary., 6.25X 9.5. H, List Price $19.50, Your price $10.50, Book Number B00052. Go top.

Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830

by Richard Harding, --See hardback description.. Naval Institute Press, , 7 drawings, 6.25X 9.25. P, List Price $24.95, Your price $12.45, Book Number B00146. Go top.

Shackleton's Boat Journey

by F. A. Worsley, --The author was the captain of the HMS Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the continent, the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship's part of twenty-eight drifted on an ice floe for five months. Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley, and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage. All hands survived this ill-fated expedition--as Worsley writes, "By self-sacrifice and throwing his own life into the balance, Shackleton saved every one of his men ... although at ties it had looked unlikely that one could be saved." (See also Worsley's Endurance.). W. W. Norton, 1977, Photos, 5.5 X8. P, List Price $13.00, Your price $7.25, Book Number B00560. Go top.

Shadow in the Sands; The

by Sam Llewellyn, --The Shadow in the Sands continues the celebrated story of intrigue and adventure at sea begun in Erskine Childer's epoch-making tale The Riddle of the Sands. The result is both an affectionate tribute to the world's first spy novelist, and a brilliantly original thriller in its own right. "For excitement, elegance and sheer virtuosity Llewellyn's thrillers sail rings around the competition." --Literary Review. Sheridan House, , 25, . P, List Price $14.95, Your price $8.05, Book Number B00147. Go top.

She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea

by Joan Druett, --From the author of Hen Frigates, chosen as a NY Public Library's Best Remembered Book of 1998, comes a riveting look at women who dared to captain ships of their own, don pirates' garb, and perform heroic and hellacions deeds on the high seas. From across the seven seas, Joan, has assembled a real-life cast of characters whose boldness and bravado will capture popular imaginations.. Simon & Schuster, , , 10 X6.4. H, List Price $26.00, Your price $13.00, Book Number B00779. Go top.

She Was A Sister Sailor: The Whaling Journals Of Mary Brewster, 1845-1851

by Joan Druett, --Defying convention Mary Brewster of Stonington, CT, accompanys her whaling captain husband on two voyages to the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first American woman to sail into the Western Arctic. A daily record of a woman's life in a man's world at sea with lively introductory essays to give context to the journal. Mary Brewster's Journal, here published for the first time, provides the most complete account of the female experience at sea.. Mystic Seaport, , 25, 7.4 X10.9. H, List Price $39.95, Your price $21.55, Book Number B00463. Go top.

Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813; A

by David Skaggs, Gerard Altoff, --The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812. Made famous by the American fleet commander Oliver Hazard Perry's comment, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," the battle marked the U.S. Navy's first successful fleet action and was one of the rare occasions when the Royal Navy surrendered an entire squadron. This book draws on British, Canadian, and American documents to offer a totally impartial analysis of all sides of the struggle to control the lake. New diagrams of the battle are included that reflect the authors' modification of traditional positions of various vessels. The book also evaluates the strategic background and tactical conduct of the British and the Americans and the command leadership exercised by Perry and his British opponent, Commander Robert H. Barclay. Not since James Fenimore Cooper's 1843 book on the subject has the battle been examined in such detail, and not since Alfred Thayer Mahan's 1905 study of the war has there been such a significant reinterpretation of the engagement. First published in hardcover in 1997, the book is the winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book Award.. Naval Institute Press, , , 6 X9. P, List Price $16.95, Your price $8.45, Book Number B00780. Go top.

Spain's Men of the Sea

by Pablo E. Perez-mallaina, --In the sixteenth century, Spain's control over its vast New World empire depended on the sailors and officers who manned the galleons and merchant vessels of its Atlantic fleets. Pérez-Mallaína profiles the men and boys who went to sea -- from the scions of seafaring dynasties and fugitives from justice to the orphans and destitute children apprenticed into service as cabin boys. Some signed on because of family tradition, more signed on because of the lure of New World treasure or simply to obtain free passage to the Americas. Most sailors were poorly paid, but the more enterprising among them supplemented their meager wages by small-scale trade or smuggling. The author paints a bleak picture of life at sea and its physical and mental effect on seamen and passengers alike. Not surprisingly, most sailors were highly superstitious, and Pérez-Mallaína closes his vivid study with an exploration of their unorthodox religious beliefs, which combined Christian and pagan elements. Pablo E. Pérez-Mallaína is director of the Department of American History at the University of Seville. Carla Rahn Phillips, translator, is professor of history at the University of Minnesota.. J. Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998, 20 Drawings, 12 Color Plates,, 6 X9. H, List Price $29.95, Your price $16.15, Book Number B00523. Go top.

USS Essex and the Birth of the American Navy; The

by Robotti and Vescovi, --This new naval history commemorates the USS Essex's 200th anniversary and, as the title suggests, an acceptance by the US that it must have a Navy. National Public Radio interviewed the two authors this morning (30 May) and the discussion will seem very familiar to Sea Room participants. Porter became the center of the discussion for two recurring themes. Porter lusted after prizes and weakened his ship because of this drive. Porter sought long guns for the Essex predicting that a crippled Essex would be beaten by an adversary that stood off and used their long guns to pummel his ship. The book presents much in the way of new research.. Adams Media, , 35, 5 X7.3. H, List Price $22.95, Your price $11.45, Book Number B00636. Go top.

Voyage of the Narwhal; The

by Andrea Barrett, --Part adventure narrative, part love story, this extraordinary chronicle captures a crucial moment n the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the mystery of the Arctic. Combining fact and fiction, Andrea Barret, prize-winning author of Ship Fever, focuses on Erasmus darwin Wells, a scholar-naturalist accompaning the expedition of the Narwhal. Through his eyes we meet the various crew members and the expedition's blustery commander, obsessed with the search for an open polar sea, and we experience the wild, diturbing beauties of that last unexplored region.. W. W. Norton, , 40, 6.5 X9.75. H, List Price $24.95, Your price $13.95, Book Number B00561. Go top.

White Wing

by Chris Barry, --Joe Bass lives in New Jersey on the Delaware Bay. He discovers an historic sailing schooner and restores it with his friends, and some adults in the background. Before the bootlegger's mystery is solved, the White Wing experiences some exciting bay-borne adventures . Royal Fireworks, , , 5.25X8.25. P, List Price $5.00, Your price $2.45, Book Number B00277. Go top.

Windjammer Watching on the Coast of Maine

by Virginia L. Thorndike, --Describes more than 30 "tall ships." This unusual guide. Highlights sixteen including the schooner Bowdoin, which carried D. B. MacMillan on his Artic explorations. The text includes photographs, silhouettes (very handy for identification), and the history of each vessel, as well as details of design, rigging, and contruction. Second edition.. DownEast Books, , 25, . P, List Price $11.95, Your price $5.95, Book Number B00631. Go top.

Windjammers Of The Pacific Rim

by Jim Gibbs, --As early settlers to California, Oregon and Washington came around the Horn and saied north from San Francisco, lumber for homes and industry went south by sea from the Northwest. This is the story of those ships and the intrepid pioneers who built them. Through many old photographs and stirring true stories , an appreciation of the schooners, barkentines, and other wind vessels and their crews is constructed to bring this golden age of wind ships to life.. Schiffer, , 332 B/w Photos, . P, List Price $19.95, Your price $9.95, Book Number B00201. Go top.

Wing and Wing

by J. F. Cooper, --[Cooper] loved the sea and looked on it with consummate understanding. In his sea tales the sea ... is in a subtle way a factor in the problem of existence, and, for all its greatness, it is always in touch with the men ... who live face to face with the promise and the menance of the sea." --Joseph Conrad "A riveting military intrigue on the voluptuous Mediterranean--a rousing naval adventure of mistaken identity and masquerade, hair-raising suspense, linquistic high-jinks, and undying romantic love."--Jill Gidmark. H. Holt, , , . H, List Price $30.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B00581. Go top.

Women Sailors and Sailor's Women

by David Cordingly, --. Random, 2001, , . H, List Price $24.95, Your price $12.45, Book Number B00939. Go top.

Wooden Ships from Texas

by Richard W. Bricker, --. Texas A&M, , , 6.5X9.5. H, List Price $29.95, Your price $14.95, Book Number B01065. Go top.

Wreck Of The Isabella; The,

by David Miller, --A shipwreck in 1812 leads to sharply twisting fortunes of the men, women, and children involved. Stranger than fiction.. Naval Institute Press, , , 6 X 9. H, List Price $27.95, Your price $13.95, Book Number B00066. Go top.

Yarn of Old Harbour Town

by W. Clark Russell, --The tale of the kidnapping of a sea captain's daughter, his frantic pursuit of her, and a fight in the English Channel. Admiral Lord Nelson makes an unforgettable cameo appearance in the novel.. McBooks, , , 5.5 X 8.5. P, List Price $14.95, Your price $7.45, Book Number B00802. Go top.