New & Noted Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800– 2000 by Larrie D. Ferreiro (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2020, 386pp, illus, notes, biblio, index, isbn 978-0-262538-077-408; $50pb) Defending the Arteries of Rebellion: Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861–1865 by Neil P. Chatelain (Savas Beatie, El Dorado Hills, CA, illus, gloss, biblio, index, notes, isbn 978-1-61121-510-6; $32.95hc) Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling by Richard Haw (Oxford University Press, New York, 2020, 648pp, illus, notes, index, isbn 978-019066-390-2; $34.95hc) Geographical Change and the Law of the Sea by Kate Purcell (Oxford Monographs in International Law, New York, 2020, 336pp, biblio, notes, isbn 9780-19874-364-4; $99hc) The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley (Liveright, imprint of W. W. Norton, New York, 2021, 512pp, isbn 978-0-87140-316-2; $35hc) Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled by Nicholas Allen (Oxford University Press, New York, 2020, 320pp, isbn 978-0-19885-787-7; $90hc) Japan’s Spy at Pearl Harbor: Memoir of an Imperial Navy Secret Agent by Takeo Yoshikawa, translated by Andrew Mitchell (McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2020, 308pp, illus, isbn 978-1-4766-7699-9; $35pb) Journal of a Voyage around the World: A Year on the Ship Helena (1841–1842) by Thomas Worthington King, edited by Steven E. Kagle (Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 2021, 288pp, isbn 9780-8142-0911-0; $62.95hc)
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making by Sharika D. Crawford (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2020, 216pp, illus, maps, notes, biblio, index, isbn 978-146966-020-2; $95hc) The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind by Amanda M. Fairbanks (Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, New York, May 2021, isbn 9781-98210-323-1; $28hc) Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (Liverpool University Press, UK, April 2021, 272pp, isbn 978-1-80085-9654; $130hc) Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach by Jamin Wells (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2020, 264pp, illus, maps, notes, biblio, index, isbn 9781-46966-090-5; $29.95pb) Tales of the Sea Cloud: Luxury Yacht, Integrated Naval Vessel, Legendary Ship by Ken W. Sayers (Texas A & M Press, College Station, 2021, 256pp, illus, biblio, index, isbn 978-162349-934-1; $35hc) Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding: A Visual History by Nathan Lipfert (Down East Books, Lanham, Maryland; co-published with Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine, July 2021, 368pp, isbn 9781-60893-681-6; $60hc) U-Boat Commander Oskar Kusch: Anatomy of a Nazi-Era Betrayal and Judicial Murder by Eric Rust (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2020, 384pp, isbn 9781-68247-514-0; $45hc)
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