Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“curtis pierce”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “curtis pierce”
Skip side bar filters
  • Pacific on the Right

    Two Pilots, One Airplane, a Lifetime of Memories

    "Pacific on the Right" chronicles the journey of Curt Pierce from Arizona to Chile. His flight student, Miguel, bought a new plane, and instead of shipping it down to his home in Chile the two made the flight together. The 6,760 mile journey through 11 countries leaves them under house arrest in Peru, landing in a restricted military base, crossing paths with a fleeing President¬—and much more. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of John Paul Jones

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Heroic Exploits and Strategic Genius of a Revolutionary War Legend

    In "The Story of John Paul Jones," Chelsea Curtis Fraser masterfully weaves a compelling narrative that delves into the life of one of America's most celebrated naval commanders. Through meticulous research, Fraser employs a vivid, engaging literary style, combining biographical detail with dramatic storytelling that captures the essence of the Revolutionary War's maritime struggles. The work not ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Every Man Will Do His Duty

    An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793–1815

    Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: "Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection" ( Library Journal ).At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fortune of War

    Series Book 6 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels
    "A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary SupplementCaptain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British Navy. He and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, take passage for England in a ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Old Ironsides (Mobi Classics)

    IN the course of the events connected with the naval history and the naval glory of the country, this ship has become so renowned by her services and her success as to be entitled to have her biography written, as well as those who have gained distinction on her deck. Half a century has endeared her to the nation, and her career may be said to be coexistent, as well as coequal in fame, with that ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Naval History of the United States Volume 1

    In May, 1636, a stanch little sloop of some twenty tons was standing along Long Island Sound on a trading expedition. At her helm stood John Gallop, a sturdy colonist, and a skilful seaman, who earned his bread by trading with the Indians that at that time thronged the shores of the Sound, and eagerly seized any opportunity to traffic with the white men from the colonies of Plymouth or New ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast

    Willie Leonard's Journal, 1859–1861

    Series series Studies in Maritime History
    This seaman's journal recounts a twenty-month voyage from Boston to the African coast to intercept slave-trading vessels as America approach the Civil War.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. William E. Leonard served aboard the Constellation during a crucial and eventful ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life of a Sailor

    Series series Seafarers' Voices
    Chamier was a Royal Navy officer, who like his exact contemporary Captain Marryat is best remembered for a series of naval novels. The Life of a Sailor was his first publication and is usually catalogued as fiction, which may be a tribute to Chamiers story-telling skills but it is wrong the book is an exact account of his naval career, with every personality, ship and event he describes ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Years on the Alabama

    A vibrant portrait the famous Confederate cruiser whose record during the Civil War made her the most successful raider of all time. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War of 1812: Privateering, Illustrated.

    by B J Lossing ...
    A brief discussion of American Privateers and Privateering during the War of 1812 when America's Private Navy scourged British Commerce. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Naval History of the United States (Complete)

    BLUE JACKETS OF '76. CHAPTER EARLY EXPLOITS UPON THE WATER. — GALLOP'S BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS. — BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES. — MORGAN AND BLACKBEARD. — CAPT. KIDD TURNS PIRATE. — DOWNFALL OF THE BUCCANEERS' POWER. In May, 1636, a stanch little sloop of some twenty tons was standing along Long Island Sound on a trading expedition. At her helm stood John Gallop, a sturdy colonist, and a skilful seaman, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, both volumes in a single file

    First-hand account of naval action during the American Civil War. From the private journals an other papers of Commander R. Semmes, C.S.N. and other officers. The advertisement to the London edition begins: "The following account of the cruise of the two Confederate States steamers--Sumter and Alabama--is taken from the private journals and other papers of Captain Semmes. It has been found ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus