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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
--Mikhail Lermontov
eBooks
Books
Media
Ocean
by
Wolf H. Berger
ISBN: 9780520942547
Publication Date: 2009-05-06
Ocean Outpost
by
Erik Seedhouse
ISBN: 9781441963574
Publication Date: 2010-09-29
The World's Oceans
by
Rainer F. Buschmann (Editor); Lance Nolde (Editor)
ISBN: 9781440843518
Publication Date: 2018-07-26
Oceans at Home
by
Melissa Gniadek
ISBN: 9781625345738
Publication Date: 2021-08-27
Oceans in Decline
by
Sergio Rossi
ISBN: 9783030025137
Publication Date: 2019-03-25
Ocean Worlds
by
Jan Zalasiewicz; Mark Williams
ISBN: 9780199672899
Publication Date: 2018-02-14
Oceans and Society
by
Samy Djavidnia (Editor); Michael Ott (Editor); Sophie Seeyave (Editor)
ISBN: 9781443861168
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
The Empty Ocean
by
Richard Ellis
ISBN: 9781559636377
Publication Date: 2004-08-15
Reeds Ocean Handbook
by
Bill Johnson
ISBN: 9781472913067
Publication Date: 2015-10-08
Treasure Island
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781849892124
Publication Date: 2010-09-14
The Sea-Wolf
by
Jack. London
ISBN: 9781780942025
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Running the River
by
Wes Ferguson; Jacob Croft Botter; Andrew Sansom
ISBN: 9781623490379
Publication Date: 2014-02-27
The Nueces River
by
Margie Crisp; William B. Montgomery; Andrew Sansom
ISBN: 9781623495152
Publication Date: 2017-03-27
The Mobile River
by
John S. Sledge
ISBN: 9781611174854
Publication Date: 2015-07-30
Steamboat modernity : travel, transport, and social transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830-1860
ISBN: 9789633867549
HMS Terror : The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship
ISBN: 9781526783141
Sailing School
by
Margaret E. Schotte
ISBN: 9781421429533
Publication Date: 2019-07-30
The Sea Their Graves
by
David J. Stewart
ISBN: 9780813037349
Publication Date: 2011-10-02
In Love with a Handsome Sailor
by
Richard M. Berrong
ISBN: 9780802036957
Publication Date: 2003-05-31
Hello Sailor!
by
Jo Stanley; Paul Baker
ISBN: 9780582772144
Publication Date: 2003-03-07
Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana
by
Gene E. Salecker
ISBN: 9781682477434
Publication Date: 2022-03-15
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
by
Robert H. Gudmestad
ISBN: 9780807138397
Publication Date: 2011-10-24
Death by Fire and Ice
by
Brian E. O'Connor
ISBN: 9781682478042
Publication Date: 2022-10-15
Troubled Waters
by
Paul F. Paskoff
ISBN: 9780807132685
Publication Date: 2007-12-01
Where the Land Meets the Sea
by
Tom D. Dillehay (Editor)
ISBN: 9781477311493
Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia
by
Anna K Grasskamp
ISBN: 9789048553303
Publication Date: 2021-10-18
A Poetic History of the Oceans
by
Søren Frank
ISBN: 9789004426696
Publication Date: 2022-07-14
Homewaters
by
David B. Williams
ISBN: 9780295748603
Publication Date: 2021-04-24
Old Man and the Sea
by
Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780684801223
Publication Date: 1995-05-05
Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel; BookSource Staff (Compiled by)
ISBN: 9780606269315
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
ISBN: 9788854418318
Islands in the Stream
by
Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780684837871
Publication Date: 1997-12-10
Sea
by
Mark Laita
ISBN: 9781419700873
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
The Odyssey
by
Homer; Emily Wilson (Translator)
ISBN: 9780393089059
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Master and Commander
by
Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9780393037012
Publication Date: 1994-11-17
The Perfect Storm
by
Sebastian Junger
ISBN: 0393337014
The Commodore
by
Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9780393037609
Publication Date: 1995-04-17
Steamboat School
by
Deborah Hopkinson; Ron Husband (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781423121961
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers
by
Annalies Corbin; Roderick Sprague (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0306461684
Publication Date: 1999-12-31
Deep Water
by
E. M. Kahn
ISBN: 9781560235170
Publication Date: 2005-03-01
Down to a Soundless Sea
by
Thomas Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780345455765
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
The Estuary's Gift
by
David Griffith
ISBN: 0271019506
Publication Date: 1999-11-01
Plastic Ocean
by
Charles Moore; Cassandra Phillips
ISBN: 9781583334249
Publication Date: 2011-10-27
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
by
Robert H. Gudmestad
ISBN: 9780807138397
Publication Date: 2011-10-24
Black Life on the Mississippi
by
Thomas C. Buchanan
ISBN: 0807829099
Publication Date: 2004-11-29
Pirate Latitudes
by
Michael Crichton
ISBN: 9780061929373
Publication Date: 2009-11-24
Pirates of the Gayoso Bayou
ISBN: 9781479739417
Villains of All Nations
by
Marcus Rediker
ISBN: 9780807050248
Publication Date: 2004-06-15
Facing the Ocean
by
Barry Cunliffe
ISBN: 0199240191
Publication Date: 2001-06-28
The Light Between Oceans
by
M. L. Stedman
ISBN: 9781451681734
Publication Date: 2012-07-31
Life in the World's Oceans
by
Alasdair McIntyre (Editor)
ISBN: 9781405192972
Publication Date: 2010-10-18
Golden Ocean
by
Patrick Obrian
ISBN: 9780393315370
Publication Date: 1996-10-17
The Cat's Table
ISBN: 9780224093620
Rivers under Siege
by
Jim W. Johnson
ISBN: 9781572334908
Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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