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Nautilus Bookshop
Welcome to the Nautilus Bookshop – a collection of great reads to enjoy at sea and ashore. A partnership between Marine Society and Nautilus International, the bookshop stocks recent releases on a range of maritime topics, including ship histories, seafarer memoirs, studies of the Merchant Navy in wartime and even the occasional nautical novel.
The Book of the Month will feature a special discount during its respective month. All the books here have been reviewed in the Nautilus Telegraph, and new titles are added each month.
If you have a recently-published maritime book that you would like the Nautilus Telegraph to consider for review, please email: telegraph@nautilusint.org
Featured products
200 Years of Lifesaving at Sea
£14.99
The Book of the month June 2024. With over 100 fascinating images from Mirrorpix, one of the world’s biggest photo libraries, 200 Years of Lifesaving at Sea is a testament to the brave folk who sailed and continue to sail towards danger, rather than away from it.
One Crew: The RNLI's Official 200-Year History
£22.99
In the 200 years since it was founded, the RNLI has saved more than 144,000 lives. The book of the Month June 2024.
Sailing Through Life...
£18.99
Throughout the telling of Ardley’s tales, his story, sailing with family and friends, country walking and living life, he has maintained a normality.
Sea-Time: An Ethnographic Adventure
£32.39
The Book of the month May 2024. It provides a vivid account that will appeal to academics interested in the study of work, workplace change and time. It is accessibly written and will be enjoyed by readers interested in the contemporary shipping industry, and the life and work of seafarers.
Shipwrecks of the Solent
£15.99
Jones reveals the stories behind the shipping disasters in the Solent.
The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700-1700: How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy
£35.00
This book continues to demonstrate how maritime trade has been the key driver of the world's wealth-creation, economic and intellectual progress.
Allied Convoys to Northern Russia, 1941–1945 : Politics, Strategy and Tactics
£25.00
Joint book of the Book of the Month April 2024. This carefully researched work providing an overview of the strategic factors dominating the costly yet war-winning Arctic convoy programme will be welcomed by experts and laymen alike.
Arctic Convoys : Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
£20.00
Joint book of the Book of the Month April 2024. Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by allied naval forces. Each journey was a battle against the elements, with turbulent seas, extreme cold, and the constant dread of torpedoes
Bonnie Geordie : The Life of Tycoon Sir George Elliot
£22.99
George Elliot was a self-made Victorian entrepreneur who rose from humble beginnings as a pit boy in England's north-east to become one of the biggest coal owners in the world.
Pulling Together: The Making of a Global Maritime Trade Union
£19.99
The Book of the Month January 2024. This in-depth history will be of great interest to anyone with an interest in maritime or trade union history. The history of Nautilus is also of relevance to all unions organising in an increasingly globalised and unstable labour market. Ilustrated with 50b/w and 20 colour photos.
Short Story, Verse, Commentary
£9.99
Poetry. Entertaining and horizon-expanding short stories, poems and observations.
The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943)
£20.00
SS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, but the story of this memorable ship, built in wood to enable flexibility in the ice, continued until 1943, when she sank off Greenland.
Garnet and Petunia: the Russians
£6.99
Captain William Gilbert is back with his latest self-published works of fiction, a racy detective trilogy set in the seedy back streets and strip joints of Bangkok.
The Seafarer’s Mind: The Questions I've Always Wanted to Ask
£5.00
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for September 2020.
Merchant Navy Survival Guide: Survive and thrive on your first ship
£6.99
Nautilus Telegraph's Book of the Month for September 2020. It is a compact introduction to commercial seafaring that all aspiring maritime professionals should read.
A Guide to Port and Terminal Management
£50.00
By Captain Bill Chalmers, FCIS
On the Line: The Story of the Greenwich Meridian
£8.99
The Royal Observatory in Greenwich is a powerful historic reminder of navigation and timekeeping. Home to the international measurements of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and Prime Meridian (0˚ longitude), the imaginary line that runs from Pole to Pole.
A Flight of Figureheads : From British Warships at The Box, Plymouth
£14.99
The perfect accompaniment to the collection of fourteen warship figureheads displayed in the atrium of The Box at Plymouth, this book introduces each of the figureheads, giving details of its design, the ship for which it was carved and the actions it witnessed when serving in the Royal Navy.
Britain’s Last Invasion
£19.99
The Battle of Fishguard 1797
From Hunter to Hunted
£19.99
From Hunter to Hunted : The U-Boat in the Atlantic, 1939-1943
No Earthly Pole
£25.00
The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845.
From Oceans to Embassies : A Personal Memoir by Gillian Angrave
£14.99
Youngsters in the market for a little career inspiration should look no further than From Oceans to Embassies for its depiction of a rich and varied life at sea with a seamless transition to shore. Gillian charts the course her life has taken with the help of more than 200 stunning photographs.