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Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and outpirate pirates in this action-packed expose of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a profes

Primarily a memoir of?Twain's pre–Civil War days as a steamboat pilot,?this engaging narrative recounts stories of the author's training,?describes the science of navigating the?river, and?narrates a

A nautical trivia book on steroids, learn why it is a Blue Monday and other expressions with a nautical pastJack Tar and the Baboon Watch is a Ripley's Believe It or Not for the mariner—everything odd

A founder of the Children's Defense Fund evaluates what has been achieved and what still needs to be done in order to make the nation safe and fair for children, in an uplifting call-to-arms that is p

Before he published his first novel in 1895, Joseph Conrad spent twenty years in the merchant navy, eventually obtaining his master’s ticket and commanding the barque Otago, in which he sailed a notab

This masterful study charts the extensive common ground and telling differences between two widely separated coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the no

The true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history.There’s no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith.Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the war, where he served in B-17s during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. From his juvenile delinquent past in Michigan, through the war and during the decades after, Smith’s life seemed to be a series of very public missteps. The other airmen took to calling the 5-foot, 5-inch airman “Snuffy” after an unappealing movie character.This is also the man who, on a tragically mishandled mission over France on May 1, 1943, single-handedly saved the crewmen in his stricken B-17. With every other gunner injured or bailed out, Smit

Writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music in Anatomy of a Song, based on the popular ongoing Wall Street Journal column, through oral histories of forty-five transform