uscpress.com - Maritime History https://uscpress.com/ A Sea of Misadventures https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891135/A-Sea-of-Misadventures
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in…]]>
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Longitude by Wire https://uscpress.com/book-post/2890923/Longitude-by-Wire
A compelling narrative of how American ingenuity solved an international scientific mystery

At the turn of the nineteenth century, even the most experienced mariners were still risking…]]>
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Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the Amethyst, 1806-1811 https://uscpress.com/book-post/2890925/Lewis-Coolidge-and-the-Voyage-of-the-Amethyst-1806-1811
A firsthand account of a nineteenth-century sealing expedition that recalls the spirit of Herman Melville

Lewis Coolidge (1783-1871) was a nephew of Billy Dawes, the man who accompanied…]]>
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The Day the Johnboat Went up the Mountain https://uscpress.com/book-post/2890954/The-Day-the-Johnboat-Went-up-the-Mountain
True tales of underwater adventures and discoveries in the Palmetto State's maritime history

Combining his skills as a veteran journalist and well-practiced storyteller with his two dec…]]>
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Historic Canals & Waterways of South Carolina https://uscpress.com/book-post/2890961/Historic-Canals-Waterways-of-South-Carolina
The first history of the canal boom that revolutionized transportation in the Palmetto State

South Carolina's first transportation revolution was the development of a network of canals…]]>
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Promotion or the Bottom of the River https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891037/Promotion-or-the-Bottom-of-the-River
South Carolinian Alexander F. Warley (1823-1895) was an exceptional naval officer who enjoyed a robust life of far-flung adventures at sea during several dramatic periods in American maritime…]]>
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USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891132/USS-Constellation-on-the-Dismal-Coast
Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard…]]>
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Port Cities of the Atlantic World https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891649/Port-Cities-of-the-Atlantic-World
Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic world

Port Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that exam…]]>
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The Gulf of Mexico https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891492/The-Gulf-of-Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the pe…]]>
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Captain James Carlin https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891348/Captain-James-Carlin
A portrait of one of the most successful blockade runners who brought vital supplies to Confederate forces

Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Co…]]>
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