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Two in a Boat - Gwyneth Lewis
ISBN: 0-06-082323-2
Published: 2006
Pages: 304
Cover: Hardcover
A strange, stirring and often hilarious account of how a couple survived the strains and joys of a sailing voyage from Cardiff to Brazil in their small boat. As much a beginner's ...
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Solitude of the Open Sea - Gregory Newell Smith
ISBN: 1-892399-22-9
Published: 2004
Pages: 286
Type: Paperback
A lively collection of seventeen narrative essays drawing upon the author's years of ocean sailing for inspiration. Subjects range from the humorous to the deeply introspective a...
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Life Was a Cabaret - Becky Coffield
ISBN: 0-9774593-0-6
Published: 2006
Pages: 148
Cover: Paperback
Becky Coffield's award winning nonfiction travel memoir details a hilarious six years aboard the sloop, "Cabaret," as the author manages to stay afloat for 25,000 miles of adventu...
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Myth, Fact, and Navigators' Secrets - J. Gregory Dill
ISBN: 1-59228-879-0
Published: 2006
Pages: 209
Cover: Paperback
A quirky collection of little-known tales of the sea. Anything but the usual solemn tome of disaster, there is wit, instruction and surprise abounding here. Even included is a his...
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Race to Freedom - Vladislav Murnikov
ISBN: 0-9676657-0-1
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Pages: 321
Cover: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
This inaugural book by Russian-born sailor and yacht designer Vladislav Murnikov chronicles the story of the first and only Soviet yacht (Fazisi) ever to compe...
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To Rule the Waves - Arthur Herman
ISBN: 0-06-053425-7
Published: 2005
Pages: 352
Cover: Paperback
How the British Navy shaped the modern world. From the time of the Spanish Armada to the present, here is the epic story of the most influential fighting force the world has known...
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At the Mercy of the Sea - John Kretschmer
ISBN: 0-07-147507-9
Published: 2006
Pages: 221
Cover: Hardcover
The true story of three sailors swept up in a real tale of life and death as they battle Hurricane Lenny's 150-plus mile per hour winds. An amazing tale of heroism and seamanship....
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Getting Stoned with Savages - J. Maarten Troost
ISBN: 0-767921-99-2
Published: 2006
Pages: 239
Cover: Paperback
From the author of "Sex Lives of Cannibals." The adventures continue on Vanuatu and Fiji among the cannibals, volcanoes, giant centipedes, and kava.
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Simple Courage - Frank Delaney
ISBN: 1-4000-6524-0
Published: 2006
Pages: 300
Cover: Hardcover
In December, 1951, the freighter SS Flying Enterprise while en-route from Europe to the US encounters a ferocious North Atlantic storm. With force 12 winds, freezing rain, and r...
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Blue Horizons - Beth Leonard
ISBN: 0-07-147958-9
Published: 2006
Pages: 176
Cover: Hardcover
A lyrical collection of essays from the author's 50,000 miles of voyaging. Based on the author's acclaimed column in Blue water Sailing magazine. this makes a perfect gift for any...
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Cruise of the Conrad - Alan Villiers
ISBN: 1-57409-241-3
Author: Alan Villiers
Published: 2006
Pages: 416
Cover: Paperback
Size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2
The journal of a circumnavigation in the fully-rigged ship Joseph Conrad in the years 1934-36 by way of Good Hop...
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In the Wake of the Jomon - Jon Turk
ISBN: 0-07-147465-X
Published: 2006
Pages: 288
Cover: Paperback
In this intriguing narrative, world-class kayaker, science writer and adventurer Jon Turk attempts a re-creation of a possible migration to North America by stone-age people 10,...
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Lilibet Logs - Jack Becker
ISBN: 1-57409-238-3
Published: 2006
Pages: 181
Type: Paperback
The story of a two-year restoration of a classic wooden sailing yacht. Spied with the writer's unique observations about the process and the people and places involved. Inspiring ...
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Watery Realm - Peter Gow
ISBN: 0-937822-91-4
Published: 2006
Pages: 88
Cover: Paperback
A series of engaging essays about the ways in which bodies of water ignite curiousity in those who venture on and into them. A thought-provoking and gently inspirational little bo...
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Monsters of the Sea - Richard Ellis
ISBN: 1-59228-967-3
Published: 2006
Pages: 448
Cover: Paperback
This respected author and researcher casts the net wide for tales of mermaids to manatees to the Loch Ness Monster in this excellent volume of lore from the margins of seafaring ...
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Ten Years Behind the Mast - Fritz Damler
ISBN: 1-890352-20-9
Published: 2006
Pages: 211
Cover: Paperback
A fine wave-by-wave narrative of the author's voyages. From shark attacks and hundred foot swells to Africa's Okavango Swamp and the Australian Outback, his decade at sea has it a...
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Joseph Conrad - Alan Villiers
ISBN: 1-57409-244-8
Published: 2006
Pages: 125
Type: Paperback
Traces Conrad's twenty year sea-career and how he went from Capt. Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski to become Joseph Conrad, novelist.
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Voyage of the Manteno - John Haslett
ISBN: 0-312-32432-4
Published: 2006
Pages: 313
Cover: Hardcover
A modern adventure tale of one man's struggle to sail the Pacific aboard a huge raft and learn the secrets of an ancient seafaring culture. He and his fellows lived out an old-fa...
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Come Hell and High Water - Jean Hood
ISBN: 9781580801430
Published: 2007
Pages: 416
Cover: Paperback
Here are stories of doomed subs, capsizing ferries, foundering ships and enough shipwreck drama and heroism to absorb anyone intrigued by the sea. Seventeen tales of mayhem, disas...
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Dark Noon - Tom Clavin
ISBN: 0-07-148659-3
Published: 2007
Pages: 240
Cover: Paperback
A compelling account of the tragedy that shocked the nation and changed deep-sea fishing forever. On Labor Day, 1951, a sudden gale ripped through the sport fishing fleet off Mont...
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Fatal Storm, new edition - Rob Mundle
ISBN: 0-07-148770-0
Published: 2007
Pages: 250
Cover: Paperback
A firsthand, edge-of-the-seat account of the worst sailing disaster of recent history - the ill-fated Sydney-Hobart race of December, 1998. Pages of horrific photos and a new forw...
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Mammoth Book of the Deep - edited by Jon Lewis
ISBN: 0-7867-1975-3
Published: 2007
Pages: 512
Cover: Paperback
Thirty true-life stories of endurance and adventure from our planet's final frontier. Includes tales of wreck hunters, explorers, salvage and record-breaking decent in a bathysphe...
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Mudlark's Ghosts - Ian Scott
ISBN: 9781574092455
Published: 2007
Pages: 176
Cover: Paperback
The story of why and how the author chose to save a sinking classic Herreshoff sharpie ketch and what was learned along the way. 'Literate, intelligent and informative.' Peter H. ...
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Small Boats on Green Water - Brian Anderson, editor
ISBN: 9781891369704
Published: 2007
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 304
A gathering of the best writing by some of the greatest boating writers on small boats - sailboats, canoes, kayaks, rowboats-having grand adventures on protected waters. For every...
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With Reckless Abandon - Capt. Jim Sharp
ISBN: 9781928862123
Published: 2007
Pages: 272
Cover: Paperback
The lively and inspiring autobiography of a near-legendary sailing ship master and tugboat skipper. Packed with wonderful characters and salty adventures from the Bahamas to Maine.
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Wreck of the Medusa - Alexander McKee
ISBN: 9781602391864
Published: 2007
Pages: 294
Cover: Paperback
A darkly compelling account of the greatest maritime disaster before the Titanic. When the French expedition ship went aground off Africa in 1816, the lifeboats were claimed by th...
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Hooked - G. Bruce Knecht
ISBN: 9781594866944
Published: 2007
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 280
A fish story, a global whodunit and courtroom drama along with an important ecological message. What made the Chilean sea bass the hottest restaurant fish entree world wide and th...
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Ocean Titans - Daniel Sekulich
ISBN: 1-59921-038-X
Published: 2007
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 244
An exploration into the world of contemporary merchant shipping from the shipyards in Korea to a heavy weather North Atlantic crossing, and into the boardroom of a wealthy ship ow...
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Fatal Forecast - Michael Tougias
ISBN: 9780743297035
Published: 2007
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 288
As gripping and harrowing as The Perfect Storm, but with a miracle ending. The true story of two fishing boats ambushed by an horrific surprise storm off Cape Cod in November, 198...
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