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  • The Ismay Line

    The Titanic, the White Star Line and the Ismay family

    by Wilton J. Oldham ...
    The Ismay Line charts the rise and fall of one of the most eminent British shipping companies - and tells the story of the family behind it. The founder of the White Star Line, T H Ismay, pioneered a revolutionary design of iron steamships, built for him by Harland & Wolff of Belfast. By the time of his death in 1899 he had become the most successful steamship owner in the world. He was succeeded ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Batavia

    from the author of The Opera House, Ned Kelly and Mutiny on the Bounty

    by Peter Fitzsimons ...
    Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • A Night to Remember

    The Sinking of the Titanic

    by Walter Lord ...
    Series Book 1 - The Titanic Chronicles
    #1 New York Times Bestseller: The definitive book on the sinking of the Titanic , based on interviews with survivors, by the author of The Miracle of Dunkirk ."Absolutely gripping and un-put-downable." —David McCullough, author of John AdamsAt first, no one but the lookout recognized... ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Years Before The Mast

    by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ...
    Two Years Before the Mast is the exhilarating 19th century personal narrative by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. that provides readers with an realistic understanding of America’s maritime heritage in the great age of sail: perhaps the most accurate picture yet of the life of seamen of that time, including the cruelty and abuse onboard ships.The book was written after Dana, who suffered weakened eyesight ... Read more

    $6.28 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Deadliest Sea

    The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History

    by Kalee Thompson ...
    Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue—where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Loss of the Titanic: I Survived the Titanic

    I Survived the Titanic

    by Lawrence Beesley ...
    A grieving world has already recognised Lawrence Beesley as the chief recorder of the Titanic wreck. The sports master at an English public school, who was going West for a tennis tournament, he had no special qualifications for performing the task that fell to him alone out of nearly a thousand survivors but he brought to bare a splendid self-possession upon his observation of the whole sad story ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • The Other Side of the Night

    The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost

    by Daniel Allen Butler ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author of Unsinkable "recounts the disaster from the vantage point of nearby vessels" ( Publishers Weekly).A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. While the world has remained fascinated by the tragedy, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sinking Of The Titanic

    by Jay Henry Mowbray ...
    The human imagination is unequal to the reconstruction of the appalling scene of the disaster in the North Atlantic. No picture of the pen or of the painter's brush can adequately represent the magnitude of the calamity that has made the whole world kin. How trivial in such an hour seem the ordinary affairs of civilized mankind--the minor ramifications of politics, the frenetic rivalry of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daniel Keith Ludwig: Reclusive Billionaire

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Daniel Keith Ludwig wore cheap shoes and eyeglasses, carried a plastic raincoat when it rained, flew economy class, and carried his own bags. Neighbors thought he was a mid-level manager. He was not. Ludwig was one of the wealthiest men, one of the few billionaires in the 1950s. He was reclusive and Time magazine complained that Ludwig was "so publicity-shy that almost nobody knows what he is up ... Read more

    $2.05 CAD

  • Cornelius Vanderbilt: The Colossus of Roads

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Cornelius Vanderbilt entrepreneur shipping and railroad magnate and one of the wealthiest and best known tycoons in American history. Uneducated and coming from a poor background Vanderbilt built an empire beginning with sailboats before graduating to steamships. His shipping interests extended from California to Europe generating substantial income for the gruff tall and ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Haunted Dartmoor

    by Kevin Hynes ...
    The wild sweep of Dartmoor is home to countless ghosts, spirits and ghouls as well as the hundreds of inhabitants of the towns and villages dotted across this ancient, windswept moorland. Containing a chilling range of spooky tales, from ghostly sightings of a large black hound at Hound Tor, a phantom procession of monks near Buckfast Abbey, medieval horsemen galloping across the moor and a ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arctic Labyrinth

    The Quest For The Northwest Passage

    by Glyn Williams ...
    As a result of global warming and the subsequent shrinking of Arctic ice, for the first time in seafaring history a navigable Northwest Passage, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, will open up. The possibility of seasonal shipping lanes has renewed the world's interest, and there are lessons to be learned for the next explorers striving to be the first to finally realize a sustainable and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD