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Whaling, Pelagic Hunting and Polar Exploration
Philip Allan's NAUTILUS LIBRARY series page at camberpete.co.uk. This page provides links to other Nautilus books for sale. The 'Nautilus Library', begun in the 1920s, built up to more than thirty volumes. A few were given slightly different titles but most were classic nautical works issued in a pocket sized edition by Philip Allan, who owned the copyright to many of the original editions.
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In The Adventure of Sail 1520-1914, Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first, circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square-rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914.
SEA WOLVES; The Viking Era: Who were these people? What drove them to leave their homelands in their longships and venture out into the open seas in search of plunder, riches, and land? These and other questions about the fair-haired Vikings are answered
VALIANT SAILORMEN by E. Keble Chatterton: An interesting selection, covering, amongst other subjects, the hunt for the DRESDEN, anti-submarine operations using trawlers, Q-ships and motor launches, the problems keeping open our lines of communication to the Continent in WW1, long-range U-boats (Deutschland) and the Blockade Squadron.
Constable's Miscellany: Shipwrecks and Maritime Disasters Vol.I: The Northern and Polar Seas. Vol. II The Atlantic and the Southern Seas published in 1833
LODESTONE and EVENING STAR: The seamen who mapped the world by Ian Cameron. A magnificent theme, magnificently handled. Within the confines of a single volume Ian Cameron unfolds the story of exploration by sea, from the voyages of the ancient Egyptians to the twentieth century. Click on this image to go to my "Falconer's Marine Dictionary” page ! A MILLION MILES IN SAIL: Being the story of the sea career of Captain C. C. Dixon by JOHN HERRIES McCULLOCH: All lovers of the sea will delight in this odyssey of the windjammer, which we consider will become a classic of nautical reminiscence. It is a tale fraught with adventure, tasting of blue water, sounding of raging storms, and told by a master mariner. POSTED MISSING: The Drama of Ships Lost Without Trace in Recent Years by Alan Villiers. Every year, at least one big, well-found ship and a number of little ones of anything up to a thousand tons are Posted Missing at Lloyd's. The reasons for the loss of some of these are obvious, though no one actually witnessed their ends; some have simply disappeared from the face of the sea.
SEA SERPENTS, SAILORS & SCEPTICS by Graham J. McEwan: Giant squid, sea serpents, alleged capture of a mermaid and descriptions of various strandings of enigmatic carcasses over the years strongly suggest that the sea still has many surprises for us. David Masters classic Wonders of Salvage; Lutine, Submarine K13, U-boat, Liner St. Paul, Silurus Araby. Diving and salvage in first half of the Twentieth century. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE - A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES, RISKS, AND ESCAPES DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR by Thomas E. Taylor WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIAN CORBETT.  
WHEN THE POLE STAR SHONE- A history of exploration by Michael Langley: This book emphasises the human factor as it traces geographical exploration back to ancient times. A detailed account of early exploration reveals that Europeans have, for the most part, been rediscovering the earth, rather that unveiling it for the first time
ff The Titanic Disaster
Click here to go to CHARLES BOARDMAN HAWES story of the voyage of the Island Princess from Salem to Canton via the Cape of Good Hope " The Mutineers " page at camberpete.co.uk !
SAILING SHIPS of The Romantic Era: A 19th Century Album of SAILING SHIPS of the Romantic Era
This is a link to a selection of books for sale at camberpete's site about Seamanship, Pilotage and local knowledge of the English Channel and the Solent area.
This is a link to a selection of books for sale on camberpete’s site, either about William Bligh, H.M.S. Bounty or her mutineers

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Naval Social History section: This covers any period where the subject matter is social history or, as in particular memoirs; there is material relevant to the subject. On occasions other navies are featured, not just the Royal Navy.
In this site this icon, adapted from the front of this book, and originally from a portrait miniature of Drake, by Nicholas Hilliard in 1581, is used as a link to ‘A page of books about drake'.
  
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex