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Lin & Larry Pardey, As Long as It's Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
PDB014
As Long as It's Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
$18.95  
Paperback, Herb McCormick, ISBN: 9781929214983
In As Long as It’s Fun, the biography of Lin and Larry Pardey, Herb McCormick recounts their remarkable sailing career—from their early days in Southern Cal. to their two circumnavigations to their current life in a quiet cove in New Zealand. Through interviews with their families,...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
GPT080
Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
$14.95  
Paperback, Lenore Skomal, 148pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 9780762758807
This is the absorbing, painstakingly researched story of Ida Lewis, born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1842, and the fearless rescues she made at Lime Rock Lighthouse. Her father, Captain Hosea Lewis, became the first keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse in 1853. But after he was disabled by stroke,...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Capt. Nat Herreshoff, new edition
SHP361
Capt. Nat Herreshoff, new edition
$29.95  
Paperback, L. Francis Herreshoff, 349pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 9781574092875
A much anticipated reissue, in larger format, of the biography of Nathanael G. Herreshoff, who was the greatest yacht and marine designer and builder this country has ever produced. Many of the closely guarded secrets of Captain Nat, the great master, are revealed in these pages. Fully...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
SKY128
Astounding Sea Stories: Fifteen Ripping Good Tales
$14.99  
Paperback, 280pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 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, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
PGN135
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
$28.95  
Hardcover, Daniel James Brown, ISBN: 9780670025817
For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin OlympicsDaniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an...
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Fishing Narratives, Last Fisherman
CPS001
Last Fisherman
$19.95  
Paperback, Gary Colvin, 527pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 972826408
An historical novel telling the fascinating story of pacific salmon trolling and the tragedy of the damming of the Columbia River and its disastrous effect on salmon runs and fishery. A truly compelling and passionate story full of colorful characters.
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Fishing Narratives, Working on the Edge
SMP007
Working on the Edge
$19.99  
Paperback, Spike Walker, 279pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 9780312089245
Now in paperback, a dramatic insider's account of the world's most dangerous profession: king-crab fishing in the frigid waters of the Bering Sea where the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90 mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and superhuman stretches of on-deck labor). But the payback, if...
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Lighthouses, The Light on the Island (Hardcover)
SJP007
The Light on the Island (Hardcover)
$21.95  
Hardcover, Helene Glidden, 216pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 9780985889715
Readers can once again enjoy Helene Glidden's classic, "The Light on the Island" as this 50th Anniversary Edition retells the touching story of a young girl growing up on Patos Island in the San Juan Archipelago. Her parents raised thirteen children while her father served as the Patos Island...
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Narratives & Adventure, Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography
SJP006
Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography
$17.95  
Paperback, June Burn, 338pages, 8.5 x 5.5, ISBN: 9780970739995
Courage, gaiety, and a fresh approach to life are reflected in this unconventional autobiography. It is a story of twentieth-century pioneers as resourceful as ever they were in the days of the old frontier. June Burn and her husband Farrar determined to go their own sweet way, enjoying first...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Adrift
HMC022
Adrift
$14.95  
Paperback, Steve Callahan, 237pages, 5.5 x 8.25, ISBN: 9780618257324
Riveting, first-hand account of the only man ever to have survived more than a month alone at sea in an inflatable raft. A genuine seafaring classic.
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Lin & Larry Pardey, Taleisin's Tales: Sailing towards the Southern Cross
PDB021
Taleisin's Tales: Sailing towards the Southern Cross
$18.95  
Paperback, Lin and Larry Pardey, 220pages, 6 x 9
    Including stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship,  Taleisin’s Tales  reflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry Pardey gained together on their second boat – one they built lovingly with teak carvel planking over sawn black locust frames. The book begins with...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, 500 Days
STP002
500 Days
$17.95  
Paperback, Serge Testa, 216pages, 5.75 x 8.25, ISBN: 9780731648498
The author departed Brisbane, Australia in June 1984 in his 12 ft. self-designed and built boat to complete a circumnavigation in the smallest yacht yet. An amazing story. Photos.
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Child of the Sea
JCS002
Child of the Sea
$15.96 $19.95  
Paperback, Doina Cornell, ISBN: 9780955639692
In 1975 Doina Cornell left England with her family when she was only seven and spent the next six years sailing around the world on a small yacht. The author has drawn on her memories, diaries and stories, to re-create the perfect life led by a sailing child: swimming, diving and playing the...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
RAN496
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
$17.00  
Paperback, ROBERT KURSON, 304pages, 6.4 x 1 x 9.6, ISBN: 9780812973693
A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the  New York Times  bestseller  Shadow Divers   Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two...
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Fishing Narratives, Lost at Sea
SIM019
Lost at Sea
$18.99  
Paperback, Patrick Dillon, 264pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 9780684869094
In a narrative filled with the excitement of "The Perfect Storm" and the historical significance and human drama of "A Civil Action", Dillon recounts the story of a commercial fishing voyage in 1983 that claimed the lives of 14 men and left a small town devastated by the loss.
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Rowing into the Son : Four Young Men Crossing the North Atlantic
MOU068
Rowing into the Son : Four Young Men Crossing the North Atlantic
$9.48 $18.95  
Paperback, Jordan Hanssen, ISBN: 9781594856358
The daring true story of the first North Atlantic Rowing Race, and the endurance needed by a team of companions to row their way to victory across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, L Francis Herreshoff: Yacht Designer
MSP051
L Francis Herreshoff: Yacht Designer
$65.00  
Hardcover, Roger Taylor, ISBN: 9780939511433
NEW Herresoff book.  Makes the perfect Christmas gift for any sailor on your list
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, Deadliest Sea
HRW093
Deadliest Sea
$14.99  
Paperback, Kalee Thompson, 336pages, 8 x 5.3 x 0.8, ISBN: 9780061766305
Deadliest Sea  by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler,  Alaska Ranger , in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008,  Deadliest Sea  is...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
ABI001
The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
$18.95  
Paperback, Abigail B. Calkin Ph.D., 252pages, 6 x 0.6 x 9, ISBN: 9780615591933
When Captain Larry Hills attempted to rescue his deckhand, he too was tragically caught in the lines that whipped and wrapped the two men against the net reel of the trawler like captured fish. In the moment before the deckhand’s death he was the only one who heard Larry’s cold...
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Sailing & Nautical Narratives, A Voyage for Madmen
HRW005
A Voyage for Madmen
$16.99  
Paperback, Peter Nichols, 298pages, 5.25 X 8, ISBN: 9780060957032
In 1968 nine sailors set off on the first solo, nonstop circumnavigators' race-possibly the most daring competition ever held. Only one finished. This is the story of each of those sailors, the challenges and hardships they faced, the obsession that drove them.
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Narratives & Adventure, General, The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
HRW103
The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
$15.99  
Paperback, Julia Hill, 288pages, 5.3 x 8, ISBN: 9780062516596
On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousand year-old redwood in Humboldt County, CA. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for what she thought...
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Narratives & Adventure, Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper
HPC155
Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper
$29.95  
Hardcover, Caroline Woodward, 232pages, 6 x 9, ISBN: 9781550177275
In 2007, Caroline Woodward was itching for a change. With an established career in book-selling and promotion, four books of her own and having raised a son with her husband, Jeff, she yearned for adventure and to re-ignite her passion for writing. Jeff was tired of piecing together low-paying...
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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
PGN292
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
$17.00  
Paperback, Daniel James Brown, 404pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 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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Wildlife & Zoology, Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
UWP002
Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
$19.95  
Paperback, David Berger, 224pages, 5.5 x 8.5, ISBN: 9780295745442
In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes. In the course of his investigation, Berger...
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