 The maritime industry is a very tough one, and the profession of mariner traditionally required courage. As we all know, the sad truth is that there are more than thousand maritime disasters occurring every year only in the British waters. So, you can imagine the scale of the problem and understand that something shall be done to improve the situation and reduce the human losses to the absolute minimum.
Nicholas faith, who is the author of this nice title, has explored the maritime safety in the twentieth century trying to find out the real causes of the two disasters, that are on the list of the most tragic maritime disasters of the century, namely the sinking of the “Estonia” ferry in 1994, and the loss of the “Herald of Free Enterprise” which occurred eight years earlier. What happened that caused these tragedies and how could they be prevented?
Why the number of the human losses was so incredibly high in both cases? What were the main lessons learned? In his publication, Nicholas Faith made a good attempt to perform the thorough examination and analysis of the numerous evidences provided by the marine engineers, ship designers, rescuers, doctors, as well and other experts in order to understand the real causes of these accidents.
 This excellent historical book by the well-known Captain Joshua Slocum is devoted to the voyage of the world famous Liberdade ship. The author tells you a really impressive story of the adventure. The volume will be of great use and interest to all history enthusiasts. Moreover, any person who loves sea and adventures will benefit from the content of this title.
The text is remarkably easy to read and the way the story is told is truly fascinating, making the reading breathtaking. The author has made the voyage together with his family, on the boat constructed using the wrecks of the previous one. This is definitely something deserving your attention! The Captain managed to sail on the boat all the way across the Caribbean Sea, navigating up to America.
And, in fact, this adventure began when his vessel got trapped and destructed somewhere in Brazil. This is a story of a truly brave man and professional. The volume is presented in both pdf and epub formats so you can choose whichever suits your needs. We do recommend the title to you if you are really interested in the sea and people who made the history – as you can see, they are remembered and highly respected even after more than hundred year.
 This interesting volume has been highly appreciated by the enthusiasts of the naval history everywhere in the world. Written by the recognized expert in the field, the publication will provide wealth of valuable information to all people with the deep interest in naval history.
The author has collected and tons of materials obtained from the German archives and other sources of information, and also make dozens of interviewees with the real people. The efforts of the author have eventually resulted in the perfect reconstruction of the events of those times. There are so many illustrations supplementing the text part of the book. Note that the publication is presented in both pdf and epub formats, for more comfortable usage.
The book is deservedly considered the real treasure for anyone willing to get more information about those pages of the naval history, and the approach applied by the author in depicting the happenings and historical events has made the content of the volume very readable which, in turn, gained so much of popularity to his best title. In short, the volume is recommended to all people interested with the ships of the past times – they will not get disappointed.
 This is one of the most popular titles on the history of seafaring in the whole world, greatly appreciated by the enthusiasts. The author provides readers with the excellent understanding and knowledge of how the seafaring did develop through the years and centuries, covering moth military and trade shipping. The focus was made on the critical aspects of the seafaring that would be of particular interest to the specialists.
The volume is perfectly readable and the chapters are compact yet very informative and full of interesting information. The whole history of the seafaring has been covered, starting from the very first steps of development, to the modern times and issues, such as the piracy etc. Numerous illustrations and maps have been included to supplement the text. We can say that literally all important historical facts have been included and addressed in detail, appealing to the broader audience.
The volume will be a genuine treasure and a must-have one for the people trying not only to know, but also to understand the seafaring history, since they will be able to track the whole development process up to today, and considering the fact that the author managed to pack tons of information into a quite compact volume.
 The volume is a must read for literally all people with the deep interest in the history of the slavery at sea. The author has mainly focused on the slave ships, intending to significantly expand the readers’ understanding of the violence and real horror of the slavery.
The readers all around the world have already found this publication to be a truly perfect argument, fundamentally contributing to the slavery history in colonial America. The study and analysis performed by the author provides new insights into the intersection of the human health, gender, age with the violence. The efforts of the author have eventually resulted in the text that describes in detail the significance of the Middle Passage.
The research activities by the author and deep and thorough analysis of the obtained data have eventually resulted in this brilliant text telling readers the ugly truth. The style of writing is very engaging and the reading will be very interesting. The author has also placed an accent on the women, kids and old people… The volume is a good one to read for those with the interest in the history, as this is also one of the parts of the naval history, although one of the most tragic pages.
 The author of this volume has presented the results of detailed examination of the British action that took place in the Southern hemisphere in the eighteenth century. In fact, he goes well beyond the descriptive analysis of the shipwrecks by considering the ships and cargoes as embodiments of the social relations of that historical period. The content of the publication is challenging the traditional approaches to the subject and provides a respective emphasizing the diversity and richness of the British action also focusing on its complexity.
The volume presents the edited version of the doctoral thesis of its author. The readers appreciated the well researched and perfectly structured materials making this book a very good reference source for all interested people. The book has joined together numerous recent works in the field of maritime archaeology and gives valuable contribution to the historical archaeology.
According to the reviews by the experts in this area, the present volume is a remarkable piece of scholarship and shall be recommended as a must-read to all people with deep professional interest in the naval history and maritime archaeology; however, the general readers will also find the content interesting.
 The author of this interesting volume draws on both literary and archaeological evidence when performing his examination of the significant role played by the boat in Egyptian belief, ritual and in everyday life. The content of the book will interest both historians and naval enthusiasts. The text has been illustrated with numerous detailed and informative photographs of boat models as well as many paintings together with the line drawings of the boats.
The author has also provided description of the boat building process which used to be there in ancient Egypt on the basis of the boat models that were found in the tombs; he has also used some remains of the boats found during archaeological digs. There is also a good glossary of the terminology included in the book for easy reference. In fact one chapter of the volume is devoted solely to the sources of evidence used.
The section dealing with the boat building addresses the woodworking techniques commonly used at those times, harbors and boat construction yards, and all other aspects. Particular attention has been paid by the author to the boats in ritual and belief, and to ancient Egyptian boats from Old, Middle and New Kingdom, etc.
 Obviously, water is the most fundamental resource considered the basis of all life on our planet, and this resource is becoming increasingly important issue and potential source of conflict in today's world. The present fascinating volume setting out numerous ingenious methods used by the ancient human societies to gather, transport and store water, is a very timely book taking into account a profligacy and overextraction threatening the existence of the watercourses and aquifers that for millennia have been supplying people's needs for the water.
The book is intended to provide readers with a general overview of the water technologies established by some of the ancient human civilizations. No publication on water technologies of the ancient times might be considered complete without discussions of the engineering developments of the Greeks and Romans, and these have been covered in the present volume together with the examination of how American societies of that historical period accommodated their water requests.
The text of the book is really wide-ranging and offering some practical and effective technical solutions to the crisis taking place in today's water supply. Readers will find valuable insights made by the author into the ancient water technologies which underpin most of the contemporary practices of water engineering and management.
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