Maryland’s famed tidewater region is a wellspring of gourmet delights. One of our most popular titles, A Cook’s Tour of the Eastern Shore has earne...

Cruise ships, the largest moving man-made objects, can be almost a quarter-mile long, as tall as a twenty-five-story building, and largely self-con...

From eighteenth-century mansions to urban high-rise buildings, A Guide to Baltimore Architecture chronicles two hundred years of architectural hist...

Since its first publication in 1972, more than 30,000 blue-water sailors have looked to this book when injury or illness struck at sea. Virtually e...

The first comprehensive account of fire and rescue boats in America, this profusely illustrated book sheds light on a heroic tradition dating to th...

The Merchant Marine is composed of all the commercial ships of a country and the personnel that man them. The American Merchant Seaman's Manual has...

Because of its geographic position and its geologic past, the Delmarva Peninsula is a transition zone between the northern and southern sections of...

Annapolis, an outstanding colonial city, is the capital of Maryland, the home of the U.S. Naval Academy, and host to two of the largest boat shows ...

Applied Naval Architecture is intended for undergraduate students of many of the disciplines in maritime affairs, including marine engineering, mar...

An Azimuthing Stern Drive (ASD) tug or towboat is a high-performance vessel that is responsive, quick to maneuver and extremely powerful. In the ha...

Initially created as a course curriculum for classes in sail vessel operations at the Maine Maritime Academy, this work has been developed to provi...

This text has been developed to provide a firm foundation for men and women working toward earning US Coast Guard licenses to operate auxiliary-pow...

Baltimore was an innovator in the development of cast-iron architecture, but the city's heritage of buildings in this genre, once numbering more th...

According to author Captain Henry H. Hooyer, forces acting on the ship have an effective lever arm with respect to a hypothetical pivot point. The ...

Photography in the United States was a big thrill, but I always get a bigger thrill when I make a picture of a fleet of dredge boats moving over an...

In this book, David Morgan, the expert who made the whips for the Indiana Jones movies, shows how to braid simple projects quickly. With close atte...

On September 6, 1995, Cal Ripken, Jr., baseball's Ironman, played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig's record that many thought w...

The book presents a comprehensive treatment of celestial navigation based upon the essential foundations of nautical astronomy and spherical trigon...

Where do the Chesapeake Bay's sea turtles come from in the summer, and where do they go in winter? Where do swans come from when they arrive in the...

A rich panorama of fascinating Civil War history, this is the story of gunboats and smugglers, privateers and street-brawlers—the chronicle of migh...

For generations, vessels built on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay have been famous among seafaring peoples of Europe and America. In Maryland and ...

This book has become the definitive field guide to the Chesapeake. Flora and fauna descriptions are arranged according to the bay’s nine major habi...

Chesapeake Bay Schooners focuses on the evolution of a uniquely American vessel from its European origins to the shipyards and waters of the bay, w...

Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks documents the skipjack and its role in the oyster dredging industry, describing the natural and manmade disasters that aff...

When Prohibition was the law, Chesapeake Bay was a smuggler's paradise. Rogues of all types transported boatloads of forbidden liquor in the days w...

Thirty years have passed since the 1975 publication of Robert H. Burgess's classic Chesapeake Sailing Craft, and while the original edition of this...

Many books document the workboats of the Chesapeake, but for decades bay waters have been home to another kind of craft: sailboats designed and bui...

This book portrays the steamboat era on the Chesapeake (1813-1963), which matched the glamour and excitement of the steamboats on the Mississippi. ...

Although media reports suggest that there always has been public concern over the health of the Chesapeake Bay, this is a fairly recent phenomenon....

When Captain John Smith sailed up the Chesapeake Bay in 1608, he discovered a land so rich in wildlife that numbers could not begin to tell the who...

The book describes the region's four central counties (Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery, and Prince George's), including wildlife, plants, and hist...

This fourth book in a series about Maryland's counties includes Somerset, Dorchester, Worcester, and Wicomico Counties on the Eastern Shore. Writte...

This second book in the Our Maryland Counties series for elementary school students covers Baltimore, Frederick, Harford, and Carroll counties. The...

The story of Maryland's three southern counties is really the story of the beginnings of the state itself. On March 25, 1634, the first European se...

A certain mystique has always surrounded the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay. This book goes far toward defining it by taking the reader on a journe...

What would you do if faced with a school of sharks in a feeding frenzy? Find out in this book, unquestionably the most authoritative compact guide ...

In Deadrise and Cross-planked, author Larry S. Chowning takes readers on a journey into the history of wooden deadrise boat building, highlighting ...

This up-to-date standard reference is a must-have for every mariner's bookshelf. Acronyms and cross-references to related terms give the reader a f...