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This is an account of the thrilling, and at times harrowing, maritime adventures of fortune hunters who sailed from the east coast of America around Cape Horn to California during …
This book tells the dramatic story of how an earthen fort defended a southern city against ironclad monitors.The southern anchor in the coastal defenses of Savannah, Georgia, Fort …
This book presents true tales of underwater adventures and discoveries in the Palmetto State's maritime history. Combining his skills as a veteran journalist and well-practiced …
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and …
Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William …
This is a firsthand account of a nineteenth-century sealing expedition that recalls the spirit of Herman Melville. Lewis Coolidge (1783-1871) was a nephew of Billy Dawes, the man …