Maritime History: Fiction and Non-Fiction

Selections include:

• The History of Seafaring, Donald Johnson and Juha Nurminen
• The Voyage of Verrazzano
• The Sea, A Cultural History by John Mack
• Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll
• Maritime History as World History by Daniel Finamore
• Sailing into the Abyss, William R. Benedetto
• America and the Sea: A Maritime History, Benjamin Labaree, William M. Fowler, Jr., Edward W. Sloan and John B. Hattendorf
• Principles of Maritime Strategy, Sir Julian Stafford Corbett,
• A Maritime History of Baja California, Edward W. Vernon
• A General History of the Pyrates, Daniel Defor
• Stockwin’s Maritime Miscellany
• Maritime Southeast Asia to 1500, Lynda Norene Shaffer and Kevin Reilly
• A history of Arctic Exploration: Discovery, Adventure and Endurance at the Top of the World by Juha Nurminen and Matti Lainema
• The Foundation of British Maritime Ascendancy: 1755-1851 (Cambridge Military Histories) by Roger Morriss
• We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History – Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations, Daniel N. Paul
• Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Coloniel Era, Arthur Pierce Middleton
• The Guernseyman (Richard Delancey Novels), C. Northcote Parkinson
• Stories from the Maine Coast: Skippers, Stips and Storms, Harry Gratwick
• Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, Peter Padfield
• Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans, Brian M. Fagan
• A Brief History of Fighting Ships, David Tudor Davies
• Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route (California World History Library), Stteven E. Sidebotham
• The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, David Abulafia
• The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World, Amir D. Aczel

The Fighting Temeraire William Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851. Turner, an English landscape painter, was the son of a barber. He received almost no general education but at 14 was already a student at the Royal Academy of Arts and three years later was making topographical drawings for magazines. In 1791 he exhibited two watercolours at the Royal Academy. In the following 10 years he exhibited there regularly, was elected a member (1802), and was made professor of perspective (1807). By 1799 the sale of his work allowed him to devote himself to the visionary interpretations of landscape for which he became famous.

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