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Narratives & Adventure, Bering Sea Strong: How I Found Solid Ground on Open Ocean
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Bering Sea Strong: How I Found Solid Ground on Open Ocean
$22.99  
Hardcover, Laura Hartema, 208pp, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781510731516
Full of unusual characters, mischief, camaraderie, and testosterone-fueled man gossip. Bering Sea Strong  is a tale of adventure and self-discovery. The story portrays a young woman on a solo journey, pushed to the edge of the earth and further from the weight of family—marked by divorce,...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, The Un-Adult A-Rated Wally: 16 of Wally's Best Stories, Un-Cut, Un-Edited and Un-Usually Fun Reading
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The Un-Adult A-Rated Wally: 16 of Wally's Best Stories, Un-Cut, Un-Edited and Un-Usually Fun Reading
$19.95  
Paperback, Wally Moran, 92pp, 6 x 9, 9781948494113
The UN-ADULT A-RATED Wally by Cruising World Magazine contributor, Wally Moran, is a collection of 16 of Wally's best stories, un-cut, un-edited and un-usually fun reading! Wally's often philosophical humor and his tongue-in-cheek outlook on life, as well as all things sailing and cruising...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation
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Cape Horn Birthday: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation
$26.95  
Paperback, Peter Freeman, 348pp, 6 x 9, 9781948494045
Cape Horn Birthday documents the extraordinary non-stop round-the-world journey of a lone sailor and his thirty-two-foot sloop. GPS did not exist when Peter Freeman set sail from Victoria, British Columbia, in 1984. Peter navigated the old-fashioned way, with a compass, a sextant, books of...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone
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Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone
$24.95  
Paperback, Dave Rearick, 249pp, 6 x 9, 9781948494090
On October 2, 2013, Dave Rearick began an epic solo voyage around the world. Onboard his specifically built Class 40 racing sloop appropriately named Bodacious Dream, Dave sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, sailing the length of the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town, South Africa, 8000 miles distant....
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
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Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
$14.95  
Paperback, John Kretschmer, 224pp, 6 x 9, 9781574091649
Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in  Flirting with Mermaids , he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
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Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
$16.95  
Paperback, Audrey Sutherland, 176pp, 5 x 7, 9781938340758
2013 Gold Winner IBPA Ben Franklin Awards In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of  Paddling Hawaii  and  Paddling My Own Canoe  begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Where the Magic Happens: How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World
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Where the Magic Happens: How a Young Family Changed Their Lives and Sailed Around the World
$25.00  
Hardcover, Caspar Craven, 320pp, 6.5 x 8.5, 9781472949912
The Craven family's inspirational story of their momentous two-year round-the-world sailing trip and how they did it--the vision, the planning, the highs and lows, the teamwork, and ultimately, the adventure of a lifetime. One night when their children were still in diapers, Caspar and...
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Shipwrecks & Maritime Disasters, Last Voyages: The Lives and Tragic Loss of Remarkable Sailors Who Never Returned
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Last Voyages: The Lives and Tragic Loss of Remarkable Sailors Who Never Returned
$12.71 $16.95  
Paperback, Nicholas Gray, 240pp, 5 x 8, 9781909911550
Looking back at the lives and sailing careers of some of our lifetime’s finest yachtsmen, this collection of eleven original, moving accounts is just as much a celebration of the good – tales of hope, achievement and courageous spirit – as it is an account of their tragic final voyages....
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History, Incredible Adventure and Exploration Stories: Tales of Daring from across the Globe
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Incredible Adventure and Exploration Stories: Tales of Daring from across the Globe
$17.99  
Paperback, 232pp, 6 x 9, 9781510732230
An exciting collection of dangerous adventures, harrowing travels, and heart-stopping journeys,  Incredible Adventure and Exploration Stories  compiles tales from around the globe that are sure to amaze.  Popular and well-known tales of exploration venturing overland and across...
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Narratives & Adventure, General, Wilderness Essays
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Wilderness Essays
$16.99  
Hardcover, John Muir, 288pp, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781423607120
Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his name: forests, lakes, trails, and glaciers....
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California, Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture
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Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture
$16.95  
Paperback, Andrew Schelling, 336pp, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781640090415
" Tracks Along the Left Coast  more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo’s legacy." ― Rain Taxi "Schelling’s biography of Jaime de Angulo―'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things―presents a fascinating, full-bodied...
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Narratives & Adventure, The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains
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The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains
$27.95  
Hardcover, Barry Blanchard, 440pp, 6.5 x 9.5, 9781938340314
With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American/white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. At thirteen, he learned to rappel when he joined the...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
$17.00  
Paperback, Daniel James Brown, 404pp, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780143125471
The #1  New York Times –bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany and now the inspiration for the PBS documentary “The Boys of ‘36” For readers of  Unbroken , out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire
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Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire
$20.00  
Paperback, Wendy Hinman, 442pp, 6 x 9, 9780984835034
 shipwreck might end a dream of circumnavigating the globe. Not for the Wilcox family. In 1973, the Wilcox family sets off to sail around the world aboard the 40-foot sailboat, Vela. Thirteen months later, they are shipwrecked on a coral reef, with surf tearing a huge hole into the side of...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Harmony on the High Seas: When Your Mate Becomes Your Matey
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Harmony on the High Seas: When Your Mate Becomes Your Matey
$19.75  
Paperback, Virginia Crane Gleser, 422pp, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780964724723
What is it that compels us to follow our all-consuming passions? Is it a search for that elusive, genuine happiness that uplifts the spirit and satisfies the soul? But why go cruising? For my husband Robert and I, it was the innate desire to explore our world, escape the rat race and cold...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World
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A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World
$29.95  
Hardcover, Stan Grayson, 413pp, 7 x 10, 9780884485483
The product of years of research,  A Man for All Oceans  is the most comprehensive biography of Slocum ever published, and the first written by a small-boat sailor. Author/historian Grayson uncovered previously unknown original source materials to shed new light on one of...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Shakedown Cruise: Lessons and Adventures from a Cruising Veteran as He Learns the Ropes
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Shakedown Cruise: Lessons and Adventures from a Cruising Veteran as He Learns the Ropes
$25.00  
Hardcover, Nigel Caulder, 208pp, 6.5 x 9.5, 9781472946713
Long before he was one of America's leading yachting writers, Nigel Calder was a novice cruiser with ambitions grander than his experience, setting off for a round-world-voyage. Nigel and his partner Terrie were young and foolish, with a home-built boat that was new and untested, one child...
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Narratives & Adventure, General, Over the Top
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Over the Top
$18.00  
Paperback, Adrian Flanagan, 320pp, 5.1 x 7.8 inches, 9781472944313
Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world--Adrian Flanagan. And he did it singlehanded. Sailing around the world horizontally is difficult enough, crossing thousands of miles of ocean only to get near land at the Capes battling treacherous currents. However, hundreds of...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy
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The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy
$22.00  
Paperback, Peter Clutterbuck, 224pp, 6 x 9, 9781472945716
This is a real-life story of small-boat adventure on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity, and many near-misses. The Sea Takes No Prisoners  begins in the 60s, telling of the adventures of the author as a boy--a time of boarding schools, long holidays, and an...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska
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Journeys Through the Inside Passage: Seafaring Adventures Along the Coast of British Columbia and Alaska
$14.95  
Paperback, Joe Upton, 192pp, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780882407401
Writer and fisherman Joe Upton recounts the riveting stories of explorers of the past and seafarers of the present in JOURNEYS THROUGH THE INSIDE PASSAGE. His chronicle offers events vivid in their telling: the journey of widow  Muriel Blanchet, who solo navigated a small vessel in the...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, South From Alaska: Sailing to Australia with a baby for crew
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South From Alaska: Sailing to Australia with a baby for crew
$15.99  
Paperback, Mike Litzow, 344pp, 6 x 9, 9780692029268
"As a sailor who raised his daughter aboard, I was touched by this book. Litzow writes from the heart."  - Fatty Goodlander   When marine biologists Mike Litzow and Alisa Abookire decide to follow their dream and sail from Alaska to Australia, they agree that they won't leave...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
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Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
$14.99  
Paperback, 280pp, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781944824242
“1789 April: Just before sun-rising, Mr. Christian, with the master at arms, gunner’s mate, and Thomas Burket, seaman, came into my cabin while I was asleep, and seizing me, tied my hands with a cord behind my back and threatened me with instant death if I spoke or made the least...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Red Flags in Blue Water
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Red Flags in Blue Water
$11.95  
Paperback, R A Bard, 194pp, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780692618479
On the ocean, some voyages proceed smoothly, and some go weirdly south. It’s the weirder ones, selected from the many passages made by the author over sixteen years as an offshore delivery captain, that are collected here. None are full-scale disasters, but even minor calamities are...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, The Cape Horners' Club: Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World's Most Feared Cape
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The Cape Horners' Club: Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World's Most Feared Cape
$27.00  
Hardcover, Adrian Flanagan, 304pp, 9.5 x 6.5, 9781472912527
Cape Horn--the very name conjures images of churning seas, ice-laden rigging, howling winds, and impossible currents. Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has extracted from those sailors who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most...
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