The most detailed and celebrated autobiographical account of a solo circumnavigation of the globe in the age of sail. Slocum, a naturalized American, designed, built, provisioned, and skippered his small sloop, the Spray, around the world in 1895-1898. The book chronicles every facet of the voyage from technical specifics of the ship and supplies to lively accounts of the people and places Slocum visited along his 46,000-mile journey. Sailing Alone was, in its own time, a very popular book, and it remains so today, having been reprinted many times throughout the 20th century. However, this is the first high-quality facsimile reproduction to date, faithfully reproducing the original text, art, and striking cover of the rare first edition.

Sailing Alone Around the World

History

SLOCUM, JOSHUA

SLOCUM, Captain Joshua

Fogarty, Thomas

Varian, George

World

Regatta Press

This is the biography of the renowned admiral and general, Robert Blake, and, in it, the naval history of England during the 17th century - one of its most dramatic and turbulent periods. Having been painstakingly researched from official British-state and Blake-family papers and written by one of England's foremost writers of the 19th century, Robert Blake remains an important research volume today. Containing extensive footnote references, this definitive work is reproduced here in the first-ever facsimile of the rare first edition. The volume has been enhanced by a new introduction, written by a well-known maritime historian, and the addition of an index.

Robert Blake: Admiral and General at Sea

Gough, Barry

Dixon, Hepworth

Europe

The most detailed and noteworthy research biography of Lord Nelson's maritime career, his life at sea, battle strategy, ship innovations, and tours of duty. It remains today, one of the most frequently referenced works on the subject of Britain's late 18th- and early 19th-century naval power. This is the first high-quality facsimile edition ever produced, including reproductions of original pull-out maps (one in two-color). It is also the only single-volume reproduction available.

The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain

Biographies & Memoirs

Van Der Merwe, Pieter

Mahan, Captain A. T.

Mahan, A.T.

Historical

This is the first-ever book-length analysis of England's pre-industrial domestic trading economy, drawing on extensive quantitative data provided by the computerisation of Britain's Portbooks Programme . It is now recognised that internal trade, for too long overlooked by economic historians, provided a vital link in the organization of pre-industrial economics. This book sheds new light on the volume, nature, structure, and mechanisms of coastal and river trade. In addition, the extent to which Bristol acted as a "quasi-metropolis," influencing the direction and conduct of the internal trade of a geographically-extensive region, is exposed to a more critical analysis.

Coastal and River Trade in Pre-Industrial England: The Bristol Region, 1680-1730

Hussey, David P.

This meticulously researched book tells the history of private chart making and the story of the families and companies that dominated this trade from its earliest beginnings. From the 1750s, maritime navigators around the world relied on nautical charts and pilot books published by a handful of chart makers and instrument sellers working in the city of London. These privately produced charts or bluebacks, as they were known because of the tough blue manila paper on which they were mounted, were in circulation among merchant fleets until the Second World War. The makers of the blueback charts were among the great map publishers of their day, and names like Imray, Lorie, Norie, and Wilson are well known to anyone with an interest in the history of nautical publishing and chart design. The high and low fortunes of their businesses, developments in chart-making technology and techniques, and the world of ever-expanding global commerce in which they lived and worked is colorfully portrayed for the general reader.

The Makers of the Blueback Charts: A History of Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd

Fisher, Susanna

This is the first book-length analysis of 20th-century shipbuilding at the national level in Britain. It is based on the full breadth of primary and secondary sources available, blending the records of the UK government with those of the British Shipbuilding Employers Federation and Shipbuilding Conference, as well as making use of a range of records from individual yards, technical societies, and the shipping trade press. Few industries attest to the decline of Britain's political and economic power as does the near disappearance of British shipbulding. On the eve of the First World War, British shipbuilding produced more than the rest of the world combined. But, by the 1980s, the industry that had dominated world markets and underpinned British maritime power accounted for less than 1 percent of total world output. Throughout its decline, a remarkable relationship developed between the shipbuilding industry and the UK government as both sought to restore the fortunes and dominance of this once great enterprise. Authors: Lewis Johnman is Principal Lecturer in history at the University of Westminster in London. His previous books include The Suez Crisis (Routledge, 1997). Hugh Murphy is Senior Caird Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.

British Shipbuilding and the State Since 1918: A Political Economy of Decline

Business & Money

Murphy, Hugh

Johnman, Lewis

Industries

This is the first book-length analysis of 20th-century shipbuilding at the national level in Britain. It is based on the full breadth of primary and secondary sources available, blending the records of the UK government with those of the British Shipbuilding Employers Federation and Shipbuilding Conference, as well as making use of a range of records from individual yards, technical societies, and the shipping trade press. Few industries attest to the decline of Britain's political and economic power as does the near disappearance of British shipbulding. On the eve of the First World War, British shipbuilding produced more than the rest of the world combined. But, by the 1980s, the industry that had dominated world markets and underpinned British maritime power accounted for less than 1 percent of total world output. Throughout its decline, a remarkable relationship developed between the shipbuilding industry and the UK government as both sought to restore the fortunes and dominance of this once great enterprise. Authors: Lewis Johnman is Principal Lecturer in history at the University of Westminster in London. His previous books include The Suez Crisis (Routledge, 1997). Hugh Murphy is Senior Caird Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.

Throughout its history, the British merchant marine often employed people from the same extended families, and it was not uncommon to have brothers or cousins working together on the same ship. Until now, however, relatively little has been written to provide an accurate account of the working lives of families and ships engaged in the ocean-going trade of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To help fill a gap in the literature, this carefully researched book traces the careers of two merchant mariners and a typical "tramp" sailing vessel of the time. Drawing upon government records, employment contracts, crew discharge papers, and other primary sources, the author presents a methodical yet altogether personal history, which is further enhanced by the inclusion of maps, period photographs, and memorabilia.

Lives and Work at Sea: Herbert Holdsworth, Colin Hannah, and the Ship Ladakh

Scarratt, William L. H.

Essays: Authoritative, complete edition

Literature & Fiction

EMERSON,Ralph Waldo

Dramas & Plays

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