The astonishing tale of the first sea voyage to circumnavigate the entire globe. Magellan’s dramatic maritime expedition in 1519 discovered the straits that enabled Europe to trade …
An epic social history of steamship travel from the 19th-century to the ‘Lusitania’, the ‘Mauretania’ and the ‘Titanic’. The great transatlantic steamships became emblems …
The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an …
September 1, 1985. The RMS Titanic, which has been missing since April 15, 1912, is found in the North Atlantic where it lies at a depth of 3,821 metres.Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a …
Collins Shorts - insight in an instant.Learn the techniques you need to become an expert navigator, without reliance on technology. Discover the basic principles of navigation in …
This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.The dramatic story of the largest voyage of discovery in the …
When he's not negotiating his way around a sand bar, there's nothing a sailor likes more than propping up the bar - and telling tall tales and saucy jokes.The World's Best Sailing …
Voyages of Delusion in the Age of Reason: Williams’s book charts the 18th-century’s perilous and often fatal attempts to discover a passage through the Arctic to the Pacific. An …
In the tradition of Dava Sobel's â??Longitudeâ?? comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery â?? an eloquent elegy to one of the …
