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Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
NBN042
$16.95  
Paperback, John Kretschmer, 224 pages, 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...
Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
GPT080
$14.95  
Paperback, Lenore Skomal, 148 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 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,...
The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy
The Sea Takes No Prisoners: Offshore voyages in an open dinghy
ACB156
$22.00  
Paperback, Peter Clutterbuck, 224 pages, 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...
The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
The Night Orion Fell: A Survival Story
ABI001
$18.95  
Abigail B. Calkin Ph.D., 252 pages, 6 x 0.6 x 9, 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...
The Sun Is a Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
The Sun Is a Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
LBC121
$18.99  
Paperback, Caroline Van Hemert, 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780316414449
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure.   During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees,...
Bold Sea Stories: 21 Inspiring Adventures
Bold Sea Stories: 21 Inspiring Adventures
IPG090
$16.99  
paperback, Marlin Bree, 240 pages, 6x9, 9781892147356
Who doesn't love a good sea story? Award-winning newspaperman Marlin Bree crafts his true tales about the legends and the lore of the world's wickedest waters, from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, as well as upon (and in the dark depths) of the world's biggest inland ocean, Lake...
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Child of the Sea
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...
Adrift [Movie tie-in]: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
Adrift [Movie tie-in]: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
HRW156
$15.99  
Paperback, Tami Oldham Ashcraft, 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780062868206
New York Times   Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur ( Everest ). “An inspirational and empowering read.” —Shailene Woodley Young and in love, their lives ahead of...
Sailing Off The Anchor: Adventures of an Entrepreneur
Sailing Off The Anchor: Adventures of an Entrepreneur
CAP004
$6.00  
Paperback, Don Douglass, 286 pages, 6 x 0.6 x 9, 9781934199152
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Getting Stoned with Savages
Getting Stoned with Savages
RAN003
$15.00  
Paperback, J. Maarten Troost, 239 pages, 5 x 8, 9780767921992
The hilarious tale of the author's time on Vanuatu, a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to 'eat the man. '
Rescue at the Top of the World
Rescue at the Top of the World
PAR033
$14.95  
Paperback, Shawn Shallow, 291 pages, 9 x 5.9, 9780939837656
Winter came early to the Arctic in 1897. Frigid temperatures brought pack ice that filled the waters north of the Bering Strait. As a result, virtually the entire North American whaling fleet was trapped, stranding 300 men to die of starvation and exposure. Three escaping ships raised the alarm....
A Speck On the Sea
A Speck On the Sea
INT164
$24.00  
Paperback, William Longyard, 363 pages, 6 x 9, 9780071440295
Looks back half a millennium to chronicle the greatest ocean voyages attempted in the littlest of boats-rowboats, canoes, and tiny sailboats like Hugo Vihlen's 6 ft. April Fool. This is history, adventure and seafaring legend of the highest order.
Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble
Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble
INT460
$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...
A Full Cup
A Full Cup
PGN105
$17.00  
Paperback, Michael D' Antonio, 400 pages, 9781594485213
The chain of islands from the Virgins through to the southern Caribbean is considered one of the most desirable tropical cruising grounds for any sailor. It can be sailed in comfort and confidence with only one language, one currency, a modicum of weather forecasting, and an ability to spot...
On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend [Paperback]
On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend [Paperback]
SMP064
$20.99  
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...
Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage
Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage
SMC001
$24.95  
Paperback, Susan Marie Conrad, 94 pages, 8 x 8, 9780578501352
"Wildly Inside" transports you through the Inside Passage of British Columbia and Southeast Alaska--a visual journey where you'll smell the muskiness of a whale's breath, hear the thunderous waves of a wide-awake ocean, feel the reverberations of the big ships passing by, and be totally...
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