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Coming Back Alive
SMP035
$20.99  
Paperback, Spike Walker, 267 pages, 6 x 95, 9780312302566
This spellbinding work chronicles a desperate sea rescue off the coast of Alaska and an electrifying look at the U. S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue crews. Map.

Rescue Warriors
SMP059
$21.99  
Paperback, David Helvarg, 356 pages, 5.5 x 8.25, 9780312628147
The Extraordinary Story Of The U. S. Coast Guard Since its inception more than 200 years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over 1. 1 million people. Yet, despite having more than fifty thousand active and reserve members, most of us know very little about this often neglected but...

Deadliest Sea
HRW093
$17.99  
Paperback, Kalee Thompson, 336 pages, 8 x 5.3 x 0.8, 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 real life action and...

$29.95  
Hardcover, Terry Breverton, 384 pages, 1.2 x 5 x 8, 9781599219790
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities is about ships, people and the sea. However, unlike many other nautical compendiums, this lavishly illustrated book focuses on the unusual, the overlooked, or the downright extraordinary. . Thus, someone most of us do not know, Admiral William Brown, is given...

$18.95  
Paperback, LaDonna Gunderson, 136 pages, 8.75x7.5, 9781578335237
Salmon, Desserts & Friends is a fantastic collection of scrumptious recipes, fishing stories and dozens of captivating colorful images depicting the magic of Alaska's commercial fishing lifestyle. I share many of the delicious galley-tested salmon and dessert recipes I've learned to make...

$19.99  
Paperback, Spike Walker, 304 pages, 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9, 9780312604592
Walker mines familiar territory here with this detailed look into the grounding of a freighter on the Aleutian Islands in 2004. Through multiple interviews with the Coast Guard personnel involved, he provides a minute-by-minute account of the rescue mission that was compounded when a USCG...

$23.00  
Paperback, LARRY COLTON, 416 pages, 9780307888457
  On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese....

$21.99  
Flex, Des Pawson, 400 pages, 8.5 x 5.3 x 1.1, 9780744028478
With step-by-step color photographs, the highly visual Knots: The Complete Visual Guide is a clear, comprehensive, and practical guide to tying more than 100 knots. From choosing, using, and maintaining ropes, to learning about the different families of knots - from stopper knots; binding knots;...

Child of the Sea
JCS002
$15.96 $19.95  
Paperback, Doina Cornell, 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...

$19.95  
Paperback, Elinor DeWire, 292 pages, 8.8 x 5.5, 9781937196912
The immense Pacific Ocean, rife with islands and rimmed by huge continents, has been a liquid highway for trade and travel for centuries. Its peaceful name masks a fickle character though-serene and idyllic at times but also turbulent and merciless. . Marking the shores of this largest ocean...

$8.95  
Playing Cards, Adventure Medical Kits, 9781594856624
* Survival tips packaged in a playful, functional, water-resistant card deck * Practical information drawn from Marine Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide, a Mountaineers Books bestseller* Proven gift market bestsellerWhen heading into the outdoors, you choose multipurpose gear whenever possible --...

$10.00  
DVD
Featuring three programs. Pacific Firepower: 25 days of hell to take Saipan. Guam took 17 days of straight air attacks and bombing, paving the way for our massive anphib landings. The Battle Of Rabaul: Having taken Guadalcanal and Papua, New Guinea we planned a major encirclement of New Britain....

$10.00  
DVD
Featuring 81 classes of fighting ships and warbirds of the fleet in motion picture profile. From carriers such as Nimitz, Eisenhower, Enterprise, Kitty Hawk to missile cruisers and aerial fleet weapons including A7 Corsair, Hawkeye, A6 Intruder, F14 Tomcat and much more.

$48.00  
Hardcover, Lennarth Petersson, 9781557509703
The rigging of period ship models is arguably the most complex and daunting task for the modeler. An eighteenth-century man-of-war boasted mile upon mile of rigging, over 1,000 blocks, and acres of canvas. To reduce the rigging in scale and yet retain an accurate representation is a formidable...

Gubby Builds a Boat
HPC136
$19.95  
Hardcover, Gary Kent, 32 pages, 9 x 0.2 x 12, 9781550175912
This follow-up to the bestselling book Fishing with Gubby (Harbour Publishing, 2010) continues the adventures of Gubby, a commercial salmon fisherman, who heads home to his village on the Sunshine Coast at the end of another long season. His beloved old boat, the Flounder, is worn out and he...

$50.00  
Paperback, Carolyn Shearlock, Jan Irons, 9780071782364
No matter what anyone tells you, boat cooking IS different from cooking ashore. The space is smaller, there's no grocery store 5 minutes away, you have fewer prepared foods and electric appliances, and food storage is much different. . Despite cruising different oceans, we-Jan and Carolyn--both...

$44.95  
Hardcover, Gavin Brown, 9781908271822
This 11th edition of the legendary round the world race is arguably the most visually dazzling yacht race ever. Seldom has photography documented the quest to master the oceans or the ingredients of world-class sporting endeavour better or more vividly than in this Volvo Ocean Race. . From...

$44.95  
Hardcover, Barry Pickthall, 9781908271099
Sailing Legends recounts the stories and heroes of the longest running ocean race. Begun in 1973 as the Whitbread Round the World Race, its evolution into the fully professional Volvo Ocean Race of today is a fascinating story littered with colourful characters and anecdotes and filled with...

$17.00  
Paperback, Ernest Hemingway, 9780743219181
From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportages were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great...

$19.95  
Paperback, Nick Gibbs, 256 pages, 8 x 6, 9781770850132
A practical and inspiring A-Z guide to the world's most popular woods. . Many of the world's most beautiful and useful woods are in serious decline due to over-harvesting and environmental degradation. This updated edition of The Real Wood Bible gives the current sustainability status of these...

$10.00  
Paperback, Tom Lochhaas, 9780071803311
True stories of contemporary sailing disasters that will keep you alert and careful when you are on the water. . Suddenly Overboard tells stories about sailors who experienced catastrophes when least expecting them and who were rescued, or who died, or who lived to tell the tale simply by good...

$24.99  
Paperback, Jess Thomson, 9781612120287
These 150 delectable recipes celebrate the unique flavors of the Evergreen State, from Pacific salmon and Dungeness crab to wild mushrooms, cherries, apples, saffron, and much more. Try Grilled Spot Prawns with Curried Caramel Dipping Sauce, Fall Sausage Minestrone with Mushrooms and Squash,...

$17.00  
Paperback, Peter Sasgen, 9780451234858
By 1945, the U.S. Navy's submarine force in the Pacific had sunk over a thousand enemy cargo ships and tankers supplying the food, weapons, and oil Japan needed to continue to fight. Yet this once mighty merchant fleet continued to thrive in the Sea of Japan, where, protected from American...

$15.95  
Paperback, Theresa Levitt, 9780393350890
How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives. . Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times...

$18.99  
Paperback, Rowan Jacobsen, 9781596915480
"A wide-ranging, thorough, breezily written guide to oysters as cuisine" (Boston Globe), A Geography of Oysters is the complete guide to understanding, serving, and savoring one of North America's most delicious foods-an Amazon Best of the Year 2007 selection. . In this passionate, playful, and...

Sailing Fascination
SPC023
$20.00  
Hardcover, Heinrich Hecht, 9780764342684
America's Cup races, regattas around the world, and Olympic sailing competitions are the classic yachting events where the most picturesque sailing takes place. This broad spectrum of yachting fascinates versatile professional photographer Heinrich Hecht. Over twenty years (1984 to 2008) of...

$9.95  
Map, Bella Stander, 4 x 9, 24 x 36 unfolded, 9781888216448
An authoritative map and directory to every standing lighthouse in the 50 United States. Each lighthouse is located and named on one of 14 regional maps or a US locator. The directory lists all 770 standing lighthouses by state. Listings for each lighthouse include year of first lighting, year...

$7.95  
Map, Bella Stander, 4 x 9, 24 x 36 unfolded, 9781888216363
The illustrated map and guide to all the lighthouses of Oregon, Washington & Alaska. Newly revised and updated. . Features:- All standing & "lost" lighthouses located on a detailed coastal map. - History & description of each standing lighthouse. - Directions to each light or the...

$12.95  
Paperback, Chris Lubkemann, 104 pages, 9 x 6, 9781565237728
Relax the old fashioned wayWhether on your front porch-or in the back woods-the Little Book of Whittling will help you learn to how to create fun and useful objects with nothing more than a pocket knife and a twig. Author Chris Lubkemann will help you "whittle away the hours" with clear guidance...

Lighthouse Ghosts
ING018
$14.95  
Paperback, Norma Elizabeth & Bruce Roberts, 9781561645916
A new edition with updated information. Thirteen tales of ghost haunting American lighthouses. Includes photographs of each lighthouse by Bruce Roberts. The lighthouses included are: Old Presque Isle Lighthouse on Lake Huron, Michigan Plymouth Lighthouse, Massachusetts Heceta Head Lighthouse,...

$13.99  
Hardcover, Tyler Benson, 10 x 10, 9780615627373
One windy, November day, a cry for help comes into the Coast Guard Station in St. Ignace, Michigan. A plane has crashed on Mackinac Island and it's up to The Guardians of the Straits to answer the call. The Coasties quickly rush to their motor lifeboat, along with their newest and most fearless...

$14.99  
Hardcover, Tyler Benson, 10 x 10, 9780989284608
One windy, November day, a cry for help comes into the Coast Guard Station in St. Ignace, Michigan. A plane has crashed on Mackinac Island and it's up to The Guardians of the Straits to answer the call. The Coasties quickly rush to their motor lifeboat, along with their newest and most fearless...
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