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1	The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic more books like this by David W Shaw add to wishlist The gripping story of one of the world's worst maritime disasters, the sinking of the liner THE ARCTIC which resulted in the loss of more than 400 lives. In 1854, one of the worst maritime disaster in the early days of steam occurred when the liner Arctic collided with a small steamship and sank, causing the loss of nearly 400 lives off of Cape ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her more books like this by David W Shaw add to wishlist Through a study of a record-breaking 89-day voyage from New York to San Francisco, the author recreates life aboard a 19th-century clipper ship. He tells of the role of the ship's navigator, Eleanor Creesy--who was married to the captain and who helped chart a safe voyage through dangerous seas and adverse weather conditions. Much of this book is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.96! \| first editions
3	Daring the Sea: The True Story of the First Men to Row Across the Atlantic Ocean more books like this by David W Shaw add to wishlist In 1896, two Norwegian immigrants to America decided to go back. Backed by the editor of the "Police Gazette" who was looking for a sensational story, they rowed from New York to England in 55 days in an 18-foot boat. This account of an amazing voyage is based partly on their journals. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.00! \| first editions
4	Wilt; just like any other 7-foot Black millionaire who lives next door more books like this by Wilt Chamberlain, David Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
5	Sea Wolf of the Confederacy: The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read more books like this by David W Shaw add to wishlist In June 1863, just days before the epic clash at Gettysburg ended the last rebel land invasion of the North, a small party of the Confederate Navy mounted a devastating series of raids on the New England coast, culminating in a battle off Portland, Maine. Veteran author David W. Shaw brilliantly re-creates this almost forgotten chapter of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Daring the Sea: The Dramatic True Story of the First Men to Cross the Atlantic in a Rowboat more books like this by David W Shaw add to wishlist In 1896, two Norwegian immigrants to America decided to go back. Backed by the editor of the "Police Gazette" who was looking for a sensational story, they rowed from New York to England in 55 days in an 18-foot boat. This account of an amazing voyage is based partly on their journals. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
7	Inland Passage: On Boats and Boating in the Northeast more books like this by David W Shaw add to wishlist This is Shaw's account of his adventures sailing the ocean, lakes and rivers of the Northeast. His four-year odyssey aboard his 24-foot sloop "Elizabeth" provided him with a view of the inland and coastal waters, their geography, people, history and the boats which navigate there. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.24! \| first editions
8	The World Almanac of the Soviet Union: From 1905 to the Present more books like this by Warren Shaw, C R Pryce, David Pryce add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Lucid Veil: Poetic Truth in the Victorian Era more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist The Lucid Veil is conceived as a sequel to The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. Abrams. It gives a comprehensive account of the philosophic background of Victorian poetics. It is the first study to attempt to relate the theory and practice of poetry in the Victorian period to changing axioms of knowledge and perception. it will become a major work of ... see all copies from $31.96! new only from $119.60! \| SVS
10	Elegy and Paradox: Testing the Conventions more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist To what extent can the consolations of a poetry of loss be made to seem reasonable even compelling - to readers living today? In this book which asks, whether a historical and critical knowledge of the genre elegy is still really possible, W. David Shaw shows how the elegist's testing of conventions poses crises for understanding and shocks to ... see all copies from $3.56! new only from $3.98! \| first editions
11	Victorians and Mystery more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist Victorian literature, according to Shaw, gives rise to a wealth of questions and mysteries. Addressing crises of representation in poetry, fiction, and nonfictional prose in light of similar crises in philosophical, theological, and scientific literature, Shaw here examines the nature and sources of Victorian mystery. see all copies from $2.66! new only from $30.74!
12	The Sea Shall Embrace Them more books like this by David W Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.50! \| first editions
13	Alfred Tennyson Revisited more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $13.17! \| first editions
14 view cover	Origins of the Monologue the H more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist At a Time When Ancient Truths Were Crumbling and Certainties Were hard to find, poets created speakers, often persons of divided mind or conflicting sympathies, who addressed unheard auditors with their words. In talking about themselves to this imagined audience, the speakers of these dramatic monologues revealed themselves to the real audience, ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $70.95!
15 view cover	America's Victory: The Heroic Story of a Team of Ordinary Americans-- And How They Won the Greatest Yacht Race Ever more books like this by David W Shaw add to wishlist This account of the first America's Cup, in 1851, brings to life the intense nautical competition--a sail around the Isle of Wight--as well as the personalities of those involved. Victory by the Americans would make courage and resourcefulness defining parts of the young nation's character. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Babel and the Ivory Tower: The Scholar in the Age of Science more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist Torn between the competing forces of scholarship as a profession and scholarship as a calling - between Babel and the Ivory Tower - the modern academic faces a dilemma: should she or he try to preserve the soul of higher education by cultivating the Muse of personal knowledge, or renounce the Music and imitate a technician? Having come to the end ... see all copies from $33.50! new only from $44.99! \| first editions
17	Tennyson's Style more books like this by William David Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $9.59! first editions
18 view cover	Regional Planning and Development in Europe more books like this by James A. Walsh, David Gary Shaw, Peter W. Roberts add to wishlist An analysis of regional planning and development in Europe. It represents the output of a meeting of the European Union and Regional Research Network held at Frankfurt-am-Oder in 1997. Many of the papers have been reworked and extended to incorporate a wider span of material. see all copies from $100.00! new only from $126.36!
19	The Lucid Veil: Poetic Truth in the Victorian Age more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $8.27! first editions
20	Kennedy's law of salvage. more books like this by Sir William Rann Kennedy, David W. Steel, F. D. Rose, Richard A. A. Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $332.50!
21	The dialectical temper; the rhetorical art of Robert Browning more books like this by William David Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $6.21! first editions \| SVS
22	Dialectical Temper: Rhetorical Art of Robert Browning by W.David Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $15.44! first editions
23	Alcohols with hydrocarbons more books like this by David G. Shaw, Adam Skrzecz, John W. Lorimer, Andrzej Maczyski, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry add to wishlist see all copies from $35.00!
24	Die Eroberung Des Horizonts by David W. Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $32.76!
25 view cover	Secrets of the Oracle: A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats more books like this by Professor W David Shaw add to wishlist What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives?Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written. see all copies from $48.00! new only from $48.00!

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