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Maritime History
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Spring Seaweed:Feamainn Bhealtaine€19.99Spring Seaweed stands as both a vital record of Irish island life and a timeless collection of essays from a master stylist – one that rewards both first-time readers and those returning to discover new depths in Ó Direáin’s writing.
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The Turning Tide : A Biography of the Irish Sea€14.99The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature-writing, travelogue and politics, Welshman Jon Gower charts a sea which has carried both Vikings and saints; invasion forces, royals and rebels; writers, musicians and fishermen.
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks€22.99Drawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, renowned maritime archaeologist David Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past to tell a new story about the world and its underwater secrets.
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks (Hardback)€29.99From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration of the Arctic, the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of bravery and endurance aboard HMS Gairsoppa in World War Two.
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The Wager (Paperback)€14.99A mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil.
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The Sinking of the Titanic : Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors€17.99I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship.
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The Ship Beneath the Ice€21.99On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, finally succumbed to the crushing ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, it was gone. The miraculous escape and survival of all 28 men on board have entered legend.
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Operation Pedestal : The Fleet That Battled to Malta 1942€11.99In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed.
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Paperback)€19.99The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night. The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter. . .
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Stories from the Sea : Legends, adventures and tragedies of Ireland's coast (Hardback)€19.99The sea has an enduring fascination: let Jo's tales and Richard Mills' evocative photographs transport you to the coast to rediscover the tales gathered over the centuries by its communities.
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SBS - Silent Warriors : The Authorised Wartime History (Hardback)Special Price €19.99 Regular Price €29.99
Written with the full cooperation of the modern SBS - the first time this ultra-secretive unit has given its seal of approval to any book - and exclusive access to its archives.
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback)Special Price €15.19 Regular Price €18.99
The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter.
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An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean (Special Illustrated Paperback Edition)€17.99This newly illustrated edition of Unsung Hero is a bestselling classic and is a must for anyone with a taste for adventure.
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Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific€16.99A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.
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RMS Lusitania: The Story of a Wreck€20.00The RMS Lusitania was the largest and fastest ocean-going liner in the world when built in 1912 - a wonder of the age.
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The Catalpa Rescue€24.99The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison story in Australian and Irish history.
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From Scapa to Jutland : The story of HMS Caroline at war from 1914-1917 (Northern Ireland War Memorial)€17.99Amid the twists and turns of her survival to this day, the story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more.
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Endeavour : The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World€17.99`Endeavour' was also the name given to a commonplace, coal-carrying vessel bought by the Royal Navy in 1768 for an expedition to the South Seas.
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Erebus: The Story of a Ship€14.99The remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.
