The Maritime Heritage Project

Maritime History Books

Selections include:

• The History of Seafaring: Navigating the World’s Oceans
• The Voyage of Verrazzano
• The Sea: A Cultural History. John Mack
• Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
• Maritime History as World History (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology), Daniel Finamore
• Sailing into the Abyss: A True Story of Extreme Heroism on the High Seas. Winner of the 2006 US Maritime Literature Award, William R. Benedetto
• America and the Sea: A Maritime History (The American Maritime Library: Vol. XV), Benjamin Labaree, William M. Fowler, Jr., Edward W. Sloan and John B. Hattendorf
• Principles of Maritime Strategy (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor), Sir Julian Stafford Corbett
• A Maritime History of Baja California, Edward W. Vernon
• From Sea to Shining Sea: 1787-1837 (God’s Plan for America), Peter Marshall
• A General History of the Pyrates (Dover Maritime), Daniel Defoe
• Stockwin’s Maritime Miscellany: A Ditty Bag of Wonders from the Golden Age of Sail
• 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, 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
• The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
• Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf), Arthur Pierce Middleton
• The Guernseyman (The Richard Delancey Novels) (Volume 1) C. Northcote Parkinson
• Stories from the Maine Coast: Skippers, Ships and Storms (The History Press), 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
• The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World, Amir D. Aczel
• A Brief History of Fighting Ships, David Tudor Davies
• Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route (California World History Library), Stteven E. Sidebotham
• A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, Captain Charles Johnson
• The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, David Abulafia

 

The Fighting Temeraire William Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851. Turner, an English landscape painter, was the son of a barber. He received little 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.