The need for freedoms of navigation in regional waters is frequently mentioned in statements from regional forums, but a common understanding of what constitutes a particular freedom of navigation or the relevant law is lacking.This book discusses how law, politics and strategy intersect to provide different perspectives of freedoms on navigation in the Asia-Pacific region. These freedoms are very important in this distinctively maritime region, but problems arise over interpreting...

A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth?The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans—to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many l...

The American Revolution was a naval war of immense scope, embroiling twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans. Britain alone launched simultaneous campaigns in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea, and, of course, the Eastern Seaboard of America. Not until World War II would a single nation fight in so many different theaters. If the British had had the luxury of focusing on their American problem a...

Sam Steele, sixteen years old, is the son of a sea captain. His father is reported killed in a shipwreck, and Sam is quickly cheated of his inheritance. Now an orphan, Sam meets his maternal uncle, Naboth Perkins, another sea captain and ship-owner; together, the two set sail in the Pacific trade. From San Francisco, Sam and his uncle embark on Naboth’s ship the Flipper, carrying provisions north to the miners of the Alaska gold rush.\n\nA storm casts them onto a remote island, occupied by...

The first in Sam Maxfield's heartwarming, hilarious, original new comic series. Stella loves her life in London, far from the foul-mouthed, flame-haired grandmother who raised her. Then she gets the dreaded call in the middle of the night and finds herself living with Gina in a crazy coastal town. Whether it is misbehaving dogs or gangs of pensioners racing mobility scooters along the promenade, as the June temperature soars, love shows up and a mystery is revealed. Gina, Stella, and the r...

Also published under the title 'The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska', 'Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea' is the first story in L. Frank Baum's popular 'Boy Fortune Hunter' series. Sixteen-year-old Sam Steele finds himself orphaned following the reported shipwreck of his father's ship. Cheated out of his inheritance, Sam sets sail with his uncle, the sea captain Naboth Perkins to provide provisions to miners in Alaska. When the pair are shipwrecked on a remote island in a storm they mu...

The City in the Sea: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Wherethe good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest.

Tell No Tales is a swashbuckling graphic novel adventure inspired by the historical exploits of real-life female pirates from bestselling author Sam Maggs and illustrator Kendra Wells.Anne Bonny had it all—her own ship, a pirate crew, and a fearsome reputation—but a new enemy has her on the run and it'll take all of Anne's courage to stay afloat.The night before a major heist, Anne has an unsettling dream, and come morning, the ro...

Part 5: My Sea Adventure from Treasure Island: "For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers up...

Part 2: The Sea-Cok from Treasure Island: "For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon th...

In the late 1960s, an Italian engineer named Giorgio Rosa decided that the suffocating bureaucracy of his home country was no longer tolerable. Instead of protesting or moving abroad, he chose a far more radical path: he built his own independent nation on a steel platform just outside Italian territorial waters in the Adriatic Sea. The Republic of Rose Island was born, complete with its own official language, currency, postal service, and a growing population of idealistic citizens. It be...

A rescue at sea plunges an ex-marine into a deadly people trafficking conspiracy.Sam Ireland wants to raise his daughter in peace, but when he saves a woman and child from drowning, he's drawn into a dangerous web of human trafficking.Joining forces with Waleed, an Egyptian intelligence chief, Sam pursues the mastermind, Habid, who has been sending Gaddafi loyalists to their deaths.As innocent lives hang in the balance, Sam navigates treacherous waters to stop Habid ...