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Digging Holes in Popular Culture: Archaeology and Science Fiction [Paperback]
Miles Russell (Author); Russell Adams (Author)
$50.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781842170632
Published by : Oxbow Books
What would Howard Carter have thought of Lara Croft? and why do archaeologists feature so prominently in Star Trek?
Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy writes the preface to this unusual collection of... .... Learn More -
The Glorious First of June 1794: A Naval Battle and Its Aftermath [Paperback]
Mike Duffy (Author); Roger Morriss (Author)
$29.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780859896894
Published by : The Exeter Press
Volume: 2001
The Glorious First of June 1794 was the first great naval engagement of the Great War with France (1793-1815). Participants on both sides considered it the hardest-fought battle between them in the eighteenth century and both sides felt they ... .... Learn More -
Adventures in Ocean Exploration: From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood [Hardback]
Robert D. Ballard (Author);Winder McConnell (Author)
Regular Price: $40.00
Special Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9780792279921
Published by : National Geographic
Few men know the ocean as well as Robert Ballard. A pioneering marine scientist, he has dived in submersibles in all the planet's oceans, contributed key pieces to such scientific puzzles as plate tectonics and deep-ocean biology, and located ... .... Learn More -
Historic Maritime Maps 1260-1699 [Hardback]
Don Wigal (Author)
$55.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781859957509
Published by : Parkstone
An illustrated survey of historic exploration which combines large colour reproductions of ocean-going charts with brief descriptive text. Sections present the charts which resulted from voyages aound the New and Old worlds and include short a... .... Learn More -
The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the NE Coast 2 (1918-2000) [Paperback]
M Jane Young (Author)
Regular Price: $27.99
Special Price: $14.98
Out of stock
ISBN: 9780752417509
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
The coral-covered wrecks that litter the coastal waters of Britain were once ships that carried valuable cargoes all over the world. Now home to lobsters and shoals of mackerel they are only visited by inquisitive divers.
In this second vo... .... Learn More -
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage [Hardback]
James Delgado (Author)
$14.98Out of stock
ISBN: 9781550547344
Volume: 1999
Across the Top of the World is a vivid retelling of one of the most enduring quests in the history of exploration and discovery--the Northwest Passage. It covers the earliest endeavors in the sixteenth century, the many ill-fated expeditions t... .... Learn More -
Beacon On The Rock: Dramatic History of Lighthouses from Ancient Greece to the Present Day [Hardback]
Peter Williams (Author)
Regular Price: $29.95
Special Price: $9.98
ISBN: 9780764153495
Describes ancient lighthouses built by the Phoenicians and Greeks, then details development of lighthouses from seventeenth-century wood-fired beacons to today's state-of-the-art solar-powered lights. Readers are treated to a fascinating chron... .... Learn More -
Pirates: Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China Sea [Hardback]
David Cordingly (Author)
Regular Price: $39.95
Special Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9781572152649
Published by : MISC. ACCOUNT
The popular image of pirates today-the combined effect of three centuries of books, plays, operas, films, cartoons, and children's games-is extraordinarily powerful.Pirates have become the mythical equivalent of giants, vampires, wizards, or wi... .... Learn More -
Sprachliche Aspekte des nation-building in Mazedonien: Die kommunistische Presse in Vardar-Mazedonien (1940-1943). [Paperback]
Torsten Szobries (Author)
$67.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9783515076227
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Studien zur Modernen Geschichte (StMG)
Volume: 53
Diese Analyse der kommunistischen Propaganda in Vardar-Mazedonien unter ideologischen und sprachlichen Gesichtspunkten dokumentiert die entscheidende Rolle der Sprache im makedonischen nation-building. Denn die makedonischen Kommunisten legitimier... .... Learn More -
Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands that Never Were [Hardback]
Sara Raup Johnson (Author)
$25.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780285633957
Published by : Souvenir Press Ltd
They were conjured out of myth, human error, and occasionally a captain's hubris, but they appeared on maps for centuries--even though many never existed at all. Here are the compelling stories of seven islands which mapmakers documented and de... .... Learn More