Maritime

Pirates of Barbary
by Adrian Tinniswood

Maria Fusaro enjoys an account of the adventurers and renegades who made a living from raiding ships at sea

Empire of the Seas
by Brian Lavery

Duncan Redford looks at the navy’s influence on the nation – and the world

 
by Matti Lainema and Juha Nurminen

Andrew Lambert is impressed with this study of icy exploration 

by Glyn Williams

 Andrew Lambert is impressed with a new account of the quest for a North-West Passage across the American continent

by Jon Latimer

Simon Smith on an account of the sea raiders who plundered the Spanish colonies of the New World in the 17th century

by Andrew Lambert

Felix Driver looks at the biography of an explorer lost on a prestige expedition in search of a supposed sea route that tantalised Victorian Britain

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