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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 Struggle for Sea Power: The Royal Navy vs The Word, 1775-1782
£14.99
**Book of the month for August 2018** Historian Dr Sam Willis describes the inherent challenges of conflict at sea in the 1700s, the evolution of tactics, and much more in this well researched book.
Handling Cargo: Freighters
£19.99
American maritime history powerhouse William H. Miller has created a ‘voyage down maritime memory lane’ recalling the pre-containerisation cargo workhorses of his youth.
British Motor Fishing Vessels
£14.99
A little gem of a book, a kind of ‘I spy’ of vessel types, ranging from the Looe Lugger to the Motor Fifie.
Going Bananas: My Trailing Career Volume 1
£7.78
Did you know that the European Union is the largest consumer of bananas on the planet? Ever wondered where those bananas come from and how they get here? Or what their true price is?
U-Boat Assault on America
£25.00
Why the US was Unprepared for War in the Atlantic
Swansea Docks in the 1960s
£15.99
Local nostalgia for a Welsh port's 20th Century heyday
Shipwrecks of the P&O Line
£25.00
Scuba stories from the seabed of the Peninsular and Oriental Line by Sam Warwick and Mike Roussel
Last Voyage to Wewak
£16.99
A tale of the Sea, West Africa to South Pacific
QE2: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
£25.00
Through words penned by passionate QE2 travellers and with tribute stories from captains, crew and guests, a wide selection of carefully selected photographs bring this wonderful ship to life.
Sailing Ships of the Bristol Channel
£14.99
Sailing Ships of the Bristol Channel brings all of the salt-stained heritage, courage and tenacity into one colourful and highly readable volume; maritime history is in our blood and this book will enrich it.
Atlantic Container Line 1967 - 2017: A 50 Year Journey of Innovative Excellence
£10.00
Atlantic Container Line was a pioneer in the cargo revolution of the 1960s and this book captures the story spanning over the last 50 years.
The Shipwreck Hunter
£13.99
A lifetime of extraordinary discoveries on the ocean floor. Expertise that helped find the Derbyshire.