New PDF release: Naval Campaigns of the Civil War

This research of naval engagements throughout the conflict among the States offers the motion from the efforts at fortress Sumter through the secession of South Carolina in 1860, throughout the battles within the Gulf of Mexico, at the Mississippi River, and alongside the japanese seaboard, to the ultimate assault at fortress Fisher at the coast of North Carolina in January 1865.

New PDF release: A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival

Historian Julie Williams grew up listening to her great-uncle Albert Caldwell inform his harrowing tale of surviving the large catastrophe. Albert, his spouse Sylvia, and their ten-month-old son Alden, are one of the infrequent percent of households whose complete participants survived the sinking. In a unprecedented great relatives, Williams tells for the 1st time the family's story of escaping to fortunate Lifeboat thirteen and their determined sea trip towards rescue.

Download PDF by Allen Gibson: The Unsinkable Titanic

Delving deep into Titanic's legacy, Allen Gibson offers a complete heritage with a fresh argument, that large represented a substantial fulfillment in maritime structure. He determines the genuine reasons of the catastrophe, telling the tale of the 'unsinkable' send opposed to a backdrop of a tumultuous and swiftly rising technological global.

New PDF release: Economics of the Oceans: Rights, Rents and Resources

It's an unlucky fact that our oceans supply important assets which are too usually used unsustainably. repeatedly this can be as a result of the failure of foreign legislation to supply a framework for sufficient governance. Economics of the Oceans examines this factor and gives a entire learn of ocean makes use of from the views of legislations and economics.