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One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states
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From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world ...
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Real-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates-both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond-compiled by the New York Times ...
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Of all the ships lost in what has come to be called the "Graveyard of the Pacific," the story of the steamship Valencia is among ...
The reef-strewn passage between the Australian mainland and Papua New Guinea remains the most hazardous of all the major Straits in the world. It is ...
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