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Cannibals and Carnage
Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.1)
Inbunden, 2019
160 kr
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In the nineteenth century true stories of cannibal tribes massacring white traders (and vice versa) and missionaries fed the morbid appetites of Europeans, North Americans and colonials. Accounts of cannibalism committed by seafarers on their dead shipmates quickened the pulses of landfolk even …
Misery, Mutiny and Menace
Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.2)
Inbunden, 2019
185 kr
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Life at sea in the nineteenth century was demanding and perilous. Seamen had to be able to rely on those around them. This was easier said than done. The sea could be, and still is, a place of constant and unpredictable danger, whether by storm, shipboard disease or threat from the crew. Stories of …
Mysteries and Sea Monsters
Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.4)
Häftad, 2021
137 kr
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The sea realm has ever been mysterious: strange happenings upon it, an unfathomable abyss of ‘The Great Unknown’ below.Before the scrutiny of scientific Enlightenment and Age of Reason, in the eighteenth century, ghost ships and oceanic monsters were the stuff of superstition, myth and legend to …
Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste
150 Years of Myth and Mystique
Inbunden, 2022
188 kr
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4 December 1872: The brigantine Dei Gratia chances upon another brigantine out on the Atlantic near the Azores. She is the Mary Celeste. She is under sail. But she is deserted. Silent as a drowned cadaver.For 150 years since then, the mystery of why the Mary Celeste was abandoned, and what happened …
Ate the Dog Yesterday
Maritime Casualties, Calamities and Catastrophes
E-bok, 2016
292 kr
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The constant dangers that deep-sea sailing ships and sailors of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries faced were numerous and this book recounts the true-life dramas of their perils and misfortunes – the battles that they waged, and all too often lost – against the hazards of the sea.Life …
Castaways - Adrift and Abandoned
Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.3)
Häftad, 2021
141 kr
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Seafaring before the twentieth century bristled with peril.The safe haven of your vessel might be destroyed by tempest or misadventure, your security scuttled. When you were cast away with only the resources of pluck, stamina, hope – and luck. Where you might end up on the expanse of endless sea …
