Category: Disasters

Using a new system of underwater exploration technology, the author and his team have located the Bismarck off the Atlantic coast of France. In a first person account of his work, the author recounts the history of the German warship. The author's previous books include "Exploring the Titanic". Minor edgewear to DJ. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 231 pages; 28509
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The Discovery Of The Bismarck Germany's Greatest Battleship Surrenders Her Secrets

By: Ballard, Robert D. & Rick Archbold

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Warner Books Inc : 1990

Seller ID: 28781

ISBN-13: 9780446513869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Using a new system of underwater exploration technology, the author and his team have located the Bismarck off the Atlantic coast of France. In a first person account of his work, the author recounts the history of the German warship. B/w and color illustrations of the wreck by Ken Marschall ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 231 pages; 28781
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Exploring The Lusitania Probing the Mysteries of the Sinking That Changed History

By: Ballard, Robert D. & Spencer Dunmore

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Warner Books Inc : 1995

Seller ID: 24058

ISBN-13: 9780446518512

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

The author of the best-selling "The Discovery of the Titanic" explores the controversies surrounding the sinking of the cruise ship in 1915, in a large-format gift book featuring more than three hundred photographs and illustrations. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 227 pages; 24058
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Fire, Flash, And Fury The Greatest Explosions of History

By: Benson, Ragnar

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Boulder, CO, Paladin Press : 1990

Seller ID: 24614

ISBN-13: 9780873645553

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Have you ever heard about a major catastrophe on the radio or the evening news and imagined being there to witness (and, of course, survive) the incident firsthand? ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 176 pages; 24614
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Image for It Happened Last Year! Earth Events - 1973 A Report on the Planet for 1973 from the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Short-Lived Phenomena

It Happened Last Year! Earth Events - 1973 A Report on the Planet for 1973 from the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Short-Lived Phenomena

By: Cornell, James (Ed. )

Price: $18.00

Publisher: MacMillan : 1974

Seller ID: 31456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

In its ongoing yearly report, the Smithsonian Center for short-lived phenomena alerts the world. It is science news that is fantastic, but true--impressive, fascinating, and sometimes chilling like: dutch duck plague kills 20,000 mallards in South Dakota; rare "pulsating" glacier in USSR surges forward periodically, then beats a quick retreat; over 13,000 earthquakes recorded in the Red Sea during a two-week period. The year of 2017 will be more interesting! ! ! ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 250 pages; 31456
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Harvest Of Rage Why Oklahoma City is Only the Beginning

By: Dyer, Joel

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Westview Press : 1997

Seller ID: 17481

ISBN-13: 9780813332925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Bookplate. Written before 9-11.; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 292 pages; 17481
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The Warship Vasa Deep Diving and Marine Archaeology in Stockholm

By: Franzen, Anders

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Stockholm, Norstedt and Bonnier Publishers, : 1961

Seller ID: 31776

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- Dust Jacket

This mightiest warship sailed on August, 1628, from the quay at the Royal Palace only to heel over and sink before even having left the harbour. Here is the story of the remarkable way in which she was re-awakened from her 333-year sleep. She was the oldest, fully identified ship in the world and she was salvaged in 1961. Fascinating pictures. Previous owner's name and receipt showing his purchase from a London Antiquarian bookseller laid in. DJ is edgeworn, chipped and torn. ; B&W Illustrations and pictures; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 83 pages; 31776
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SOS, The World's Great Sea Disasters

By: Jameson, Keith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Derby, CT, Monarch Book Company : 1962

Seller ID: 20101

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Sea disasters included: Morro Castle; Volturno; Titanic; Atlantic; Andrea Doria; Vestris; Lusitania; Empress of Ireland. ; Mass Market PB; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 174 pages; 20101
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The Perfect Storm A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Junger, Sebastian

Price: $16.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : 1997

Seller ID: 17501

ISBN-13: 9780393040166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

A real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt air on our tongues and a breathlrss sense of what it feels like to be caught, helpless, in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control. We know, on the strength of this stark and compelling journey into the dark heart of nature, what it feels like to drown. ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 227 pages; 17501
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Miracles And Mysteries: The Halifax Explosion December 6, 1917

By: Monnon, Mary Ann

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Lancelot Press : 1989

Seller ID: 23908

ISBN-13: 9780889990715

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

23 pictures. The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship that was fully loaded with wartime explosives. The Mont-Blanc detonated after colliding with the Norwegian SS Imo in a part of Halifax Harbour called "The Narrows". About 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, and collapsed buildings, and it is estimated that over 9,000 were injured. Until the Trinity test explosions of atomic bombs, it was the largest man-made explosion in recorded history. The ...
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Darkest Hours A Narrative Encyclopedia of Worldwide Disasters from Ancient Times to the Present

By: Nash, Jay Robert

Price: $66.00

Publisher: Chicago, Nelson-Hall Company : 1976

Seller ID: 20842

ISBN-13: 9780882291406

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Oversize, heavy book may require additional postage. ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 812 pages; 20842
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Titanic Collector's Edition

By: National Geographic Society editors

Price: $10.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1999

Seller ID: 32161

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Glorious pictures, haunting as they are. Minor edgewear. ; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 33 pages; 32161
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Abandon Ship! The Saga Of The U.S.S. Indianopolis, The Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster

By: Newcomb, Richard F. & Peter Maas

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Harpercollins : 2001

Seller ID: 26190

ISBN-13: 9780060184711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

This second edition (by Peter Maas) reveals facts previously unavailable to the original author Richard Newcomb, but uses Mr. Newcombs original book to tell us the story of the first book to describe, in vivid detail, the unspeakable ordeal the survivors of the "Indianapolis" endured, and the scrutinazation of the role of the U. S. Navy in the saga, as well as the forty-year crusade to restore Captain McVay's good name. A list of the survivors and an index also provided. Gently read condition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 352 pages; 26190
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Ship Ablaze The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum

By: O'Donnell, Edward T.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Broadway Books : 2003

Seller ID: 24133

ISBN-13: 9780767909051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

On a beautiful spring morning in June 1904, 1300 New Yorkers boarded the steamer for a pleasant daylong excursion, but in thirty minutes, disaster would strike and more than one thousand would perish...; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 332 pages; 24133
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Eyewitness to Disaster

By: Perkes, Dan

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Hammond : 1976

Seller ID: 31739

ISBN-13: 9780843730005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- Dust Jacket

35 major world disasters in depth; over 200 on-the-scene photographs; locational maps and diagrams; eyewitness accounts; comprehensive listing of 20th-century disasters/catastrophes. Edgeworn and chipped DJ. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 236 pages; 31739
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Spontaneous Human Combustion

By: Randles, Jenny, and Peter Hough

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, Dorset Press : 1993

Seller ID: 20094

ISBN-13: 9781566191739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; 20094
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Train Wrecks . . . A Pictorial History Of Accidents On The Main Line

By: Reed, Robert C.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, Bonanza : 1968

Seller ID: 28753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

In the mid-nineteenth century, American railroading was burgeoning--a growth too fast for safe operations. Despite the grim statistics of 19th and early 20th century train wrecks that resulted, one cannot help but find the photographs and public prints of the day interesting. Train buffs will see the antecedents of their hobby. DJ clipped, some crinkling to lamination in bottom spine corner of rear panel. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 183 pages; 28753
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The Sea Shall Embrace Them The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic

By: Shaw, David W.

Price: $10.99

Publisher: Free Press : 2002

Seller ID: 29680

ISBN-13: 9780743222174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

The 1854 collision at sea between the Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history, with enormous and tragic consequences. The author, who brings decades of experience as a seaman to his writing, has based this riveting tale on the first-hand testimony of the few who survived the wreck, including its heroic captain, James C. Luce. It is the story of the brave and dutiful Luce fighting his mutinous crew as they take the lifeboats leaving hundreds of men, women, and children to suffer a cruel and painful death. It is al...
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The Perilous Sea The Salt-Drenched Tales of True Adventure on the High Seas from the Pages of Yankee Magazine

By: Silitch, Clarissa M. (Ed. )

Price: $14.51

Publisher: Dublin, NH, Yankee Books : 1985

Seller ID: 24617

ISBN-13: 9780899090610

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Indeed, just reading these salty tales of danger, heroism, disaster, incredible escapes, wickedness, and fateful voyages makes one glad to be alive -- and on dry land with a book in hand! ; B&W Illustrations and pictures; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 192 pages; 24617
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Category: Disasters