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A Field Guide To Sailboats Of North America: An Illustrated Reference to 255 Sailboats with Detailed History, Da

A Field Guide To Sailboats Of North America: An Illustrated Reference to 255 Sailboats with Detailed History, Da

Sherwood, Richard

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pvp.26,75 €

Amy Foster

Amy Foster

Conrad, Joseph

Periférica

Yanko Gooral, un campesino de los Cárpatos, es arrastrado hasta la costa inglesa después de que zozobre el barco de emigrantes en el que viajaba rumbo a América, donde, engañado por una red ilegal de emigración, aspiraba a labrarse un próspero porvenir. Tras el hambre, el frío, el estupor y la desesperación que sufre durante ...

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pvp.12,00 €

Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep

Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep

Scales, Helen

Reaktion Books

From a leading writer of the sea, an exquisitely illustrated deep dive into the beauty and meaning of art inspired by the life of the watery depths.

Artists have captured the marvels of ocean life throughout history. From fine art to scientific illustrations, these portrayals help us to appreciate and interpret the diversity of shapes, ...

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pvp.25,00 €

In Search of Trade and Fortune: John Cabot, Christopher Columbus and the Opening of the Atlantic

In Search of Trade and Fortune: John Cabot, Christopher Columbus and the Opening of the Atlantic

Towns, Lydia

Reaktion Books

Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration.

What did John Cabot and Christopher Columbus truly achieve and what did they inherit? In this compelling reassessment, Lydia Towns traces their voyages not as radical departures, but as chapters in a much older story of Atlantic navigation and commerce. Beginning with Celtic and ...

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pvp.29,00 €

How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History

How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe

Reaktion Books

A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others. Wall Street Journal

The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and ...

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pvp.26,00 €

Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories (Animalibus)

Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories (Animalibus)

Kaori, Nagai

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

This volume explores nonhuman animals' involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail-as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship movement.

Far from treating the ship as a confined space defined by the sea, Maritime Animals considers the ship's connections ...

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pvp.30,00 €

Why Whales Sing

Why Whales Sing

Mercado, Eduardo

Johns Hopkins University Press

Reconceives whale songs as a sophisticated sonar system, revealing incredible insights into these creatures' intelligence and behavior.

With breathtaking complexity and haunting beauty, the songs of whales have long fascinated scientists. Whales are the only mammals that can sing continuously for ten hours or more, changing the unique songs they sing every year. In Why ...

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pvp.28,00 €

On Shoreless Sea: The MS St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film, and Popular Memory.

On Shoreless Sea: The MS St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film, and Popular Memory.

VVAA

State University of New York Press

Combines new archival research with innovative theory to reassess the ship's dramatic voyage and analyze its representation in a broad range of texts, films, and artifacts of popular memory.

In 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis undertook a dramatic voyage with over nine hundred Jewish refugees that caught the world's attention and has been ...

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pvp.28,00 €

Conventional Maritime Deterrence: The Operational Foundations of Influence at Sea

Conventional Maritime Deterrence: The Operational Foundations of Influence at Sea

Lockyer, Adam

Georgetown University Press

A future clash between the United States and China would occur across the seas, islands, and peninsulas of the Indo-Pacific region. Thus, mastering maritime deterrence-creating and displaying naval power to discourage an attack-is vital for peace.

Conventional Maritime Deterrence revives and updates our understanding of how deterrence at sea differs from its terrestrial counterpart. Adam ...

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pvp.44,00 €

Tras las huellas de los héroes olvidados

Tras las huellas de los héroes olvidados

Laucirica, Sabino

Asociación Cultural y Científica Iberoamericana (ACCI)

Tras las huellas de los héroes olvidados es un paseo nostálgico por los paisajes de un imperio, que nace y crece vigoroso gracias al esfuerzo ilusionante de conquistadores, navegantes y religiosos, cuyo recuerdo permanece en el pozo del olvido. Este libro tiene la intención de rescatarlos y sacarlos a la luz acompañándoles en su viaje. ...

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Mariscadores y pescadores prehispánicos en el Caribe colombiano. Arqueología y ecología cultural en

Mariscadores y pescadores prehispánicos en el Caribe colombiano. Arqueología y ecología cultural en

Universidad de Cádiz. Servicio de Publicaciones

Esta monografía, coeditada con la Universidad del Magdalena (Colombia) sintetiza los resultados de las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas por
parte de un equipo colombiano-español en el año 2024 en el yacimiento de El Jagüey, en
el cordón dunar que separa la Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta del Caribe. En clave interdisciplinar
se reflexiona sobre una comunidad ...

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pvp.28,00 €

Urbs Julia: desempolvando su pasado

Urbs Julia: desempolvando su pasado

Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz

Este libro acompañó a la Exposición organizada por la Junta de Andalucía y la Universidad de Cádiz en el Museo de Cádiz en 2025. Ilustra la floreciente época romana, en la cual Gades fue el centro del Mediterráneo, el principal puerto comercial de Occidente y una urbe privilegiada, conocida internacionalmente por su cosmopolitismo, por la ...

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pvp.25,00 €