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Waterworlds - Book
IPS337
Our planet is covered in water, but most of the ocean is a mystery - until now. It's time to voyage with seabirds, surf the waves, dodge a polar bear and dive in a submersible - there's a deep blue world to explore. Waterworlds is a book full of incredible cross-curricular information, fun activities, and beautiful illustrated scenes to enjoy. Discover why the sea is blue, how boats float, and the rhythm of the tides, before flipping the book to read about the hidden world beneath the waves. Find out what lives in the darkest depths of the ocean, how to make your own shipwreck treasure and explore the wonders of a coral reef.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 9.1 x 11
Author: Anna Claybourne
ISBN: 9781803381725
$1995
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Getting Stoned with Savages - Book
RAN003
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. '
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: J. Maarten Troost
ISBN: 9780767921992
$1500
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Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble
Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble - Book
INT460
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 luck. These tales will make you think "if these are the ways most sailors actually die, then what if I were in that situation?" These true-life stories are told in compelling, short narratives, with an insider's analysis of what contributed to the accidents so you know what not to do or what to look out for when you are on the water. You will learn...
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Book Type: Paperback
Author: Tom Lochhaas
ISBN: 9780071803311
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A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage: The Seafaring Adventures of Guirec and Monique - Book
IPS191
A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way. When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before.  His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique. Guirec never intended to sail the world with a chicken, but after reaching the Caribbean, he and Monique made for Greenland––and emerged from the pack ice 100 days later.  Their next goal? San Francisco. Then, Antarctica. But first, could they navigate the treacherous Northwest Passage? One thing was for...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Guirec Soudée
ISBN: 9781771647045
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Rescue at the Top of the World - Book
PAR033
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. Answering the call, three officers from the early U. S. Coast Guard and two missionaries volunteered to travel over 1,500 miles through the Arctic winter to reach the shipwrecked whalers. The rescuers' perilous four-month journey, through mountainous territory and barren sub-zero landscapes never before traversed, was fraught with blizzards,...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9
Author: Shawn Shallow
ISBN: 9780939837656
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Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper - Book
NBN042
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 Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he disocvers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in "a high impact debris zone," but his resolve is unshaken. "If a piece of rocketship...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: John Kretschmer
ISBN: 9781574091649
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Living A Dream - Book
PAR040
On 9/11, USN Commander Suzanne Giesemann was aboard the military aircraft Speckled Trout as it flew over the just-demolished Twin Towers. As aide to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she strode beside him through the still-smoldering Pentagon. All those lives gone in an instant, robbed of the chance to live their dreams: would she and her Naval captain husband get to live their own dream?. Click the E-Book icon to get the Kindle version of this title
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 5.9
Author: Suzanne Giesemann
ISBN: 9780939837809
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Mum's Beauty - Book
CBJ001
A young family leaves their Northern California tree farm to explore Europe by water. On this journey they discover a vast waterway system. Each family member assumes more responsibilities along the way and they all learn to live in harmony in a small space. This is a story of their sailing adventure, it's challenges and accomplishments.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Karen Sack
ISBN: 9781719272438
500 Days
500 Days - Book
STP002
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.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.75 x 8.25
Author: Serge Testa
ISBN: 9780731648498
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Adrift
Adrift - Book
HMC022
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.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.25
Author: Steve Callahan
ISBN: 9780618257324
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More Faster Backwards: Rebuilding David B - Book
NWN001
ON JUNE 16, 2006, the David B left Bellingham, Washington bound for Juneau, Alaska, on her maiden voyage as a passenger vessel. Eight years earlier, Christine and Jeffrey had found the David B tucked behind a breakwater on Lopez Island. The tired old wooden boat, built in 1929, was showing her age. When the young couple stepped aboard the neglected vessel, her sturdy work-boat style captured their hearts with an ageless beauty that only the young dreamers could see. Their desire was to own and operate a small expedition cruise ship in Alaska. With their love for one another and without much income, they pinned their hopes and sheer will...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Christine K Smith
ISBN: 9780615540894
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea - Book
RAN213
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Richard Henry Dana Jr. & Gary Kinder
ISBN: 9780375757945
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A Speck On the Sea
A Speck On the Sea - Book
INT164
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.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: William Longyard
ISBN: 9780071440295
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The Outlaw Ocean - Book
PGN345
A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.      Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways--drawing...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8
Author: Ian Urbina
ISBN: 9781101972373
$2100
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A Full Cup - Book
PGN105
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 weather windows. This updated second edition offers an entertaining mine of information for the sun-soaked passage planner as well as the dreamer back home. Here is the full, vital background to help skipper and crew enjoy sailing the region. Topics include: How to achieve easier passage making and sail in comfort Which are the safe and easy harbors...
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Book Type: Paperback
Author: Michael D' Antonio
ISBN: 9781594485213
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Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy
Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy - Book
ACB132
For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy--a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47s, they range up to a thousand miles from home shores in Somalia. No one knows how many die at sea. But occasionally they hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews to be ransomed for millions of dollars. This is a war that's estimated to have cost the world economy as much as eighteen billion dollars in a single year. Lawyer turned award-winning filmmaker John Boyle takes us with him in this investigation into...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 1.2 x 9
Author: John Boyle
ISBN: 9781472912671
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A Voyage for Madmen
A Voyage for Madmen - Book
HRW005
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.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.25 X 8
Author: Peter Nichols
ISBN: 9780060957032
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Slow Boat From China
Slow Boat From China - Book
SHP144
A fine cruising narrative in which a couple decide to pull out of the rat race and spend years exploring cruising destinations off the beaten path. They learn a great deal about the world and themselves.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Adrian Sparham
ISBN: 9781574092172
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Capt. Nat Herreshoff, new edition
Capt. Nat Herreshoff, new edition - Book
SHP361
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 illustrated with historical photos and boat designs.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: L. Francis Herreshoff
ISBN: 9781574092875
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Sailing Off The Anchor: Adventures of an Entrepreneur
Sailing Off The Anchor: Adventures of an Entrepreneur - Book
CAP004
Charts are non-returnable
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.6 x 9
Author: Don Douglass
ISBN: 9781934199152
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Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage
Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage - Book
IPS062
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 southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak.  Paddling North  is a compilation of Sutherland's first two (of over 20) such annual trips and her day-by-day travels through the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway. In 22 years she encountered over 30 bears, four wolves, and hundreds of whales. Her lifelong philosophy, "Go simple, go...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 7
Author: Audrey Sutherland
ISBN: 9781938340758
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Ten Years in a Twenty Foot Boat - Book
CPJ002
Ten Years is the love of a young man and a small boat. It is a guide to the waters of America and an instruction for the novice sailor wishing to cruise them.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.5 x 11
Author: Gary Sack
ISBN: 9781463581435
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Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone - Book
SWP069
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. From Cape Town, Dave sailed to Wellington, New Zealand where “Bo” was originally built, and then onto the fabled Galapagos Islands, one of the earth’s great nature preserves. On the final leg, Dave returned to Newport, Rhode Island by way of the Panama Canal. The full circumnavigation took 256 days to complete, leaving an indelible memory of the...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Dave Rearick
ISBN: 9781948494090
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Gift From the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition - Book
RAN526
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 7
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
ISBN: 9780679732419
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Damn the Torpedoes!
Damn the Torpedoes! - Book
TWE001
Warm and witty tales of live aboard life and all its misadventures, joys and challenges. For the nautically committed and those who love to laugh.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 7.5
Author: Catherine Dook
ISBN: 9781894898065
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Log from the Sea of Cortez - Book
PGN037
An exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of CA with botanist Ed Ricketts. A wonderful combination of science, philosophy and high-spirited cruising adventure.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780140187441
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August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm PAPERBACK
August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm - Book
GPT154
  An award-winning journalist's voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there.  
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 6
Author: Barbara Walsh
ISBN: 9780762784905
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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 - Book
SWP064
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 related will take you on a journey through the realities, and often the tribulations, of the sailing and cruising lifestyle. But good or bad, Wally always finds the best in the cruising life as he opens a porthole for sailors, cruisers, and wanna-be cruisers into the world of the liveaboard cruising sailor. Whether you are new to sailing and boating, or...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Wally Moran
ISBN: 9781948494113
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South From Alaska: Sailing to Australia with a baby for crew
South From Alaska: Sailing to Australia with a baby for crew - Book
SFA001
"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 until their son, Elias, is one year old. But when he is just ten months old, they give up waiting, strap him down, and set sail. In his deeply personal account of their trip, Mike tells the story of the stress and exhilaration, the closeness of family life on board, and the fierce beauty of the open ocean. Demonstrating a moving affinity with the...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Mike Litzow
ISBN: 9780692029268
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Over the Top
Over the Top - Book
IPG032
In 1975, when Adrian Flanagan was 15, he read Sir Francis Chichester's account of his record-breaking circumnavigation, and a dream began to form. Thirty years later, on October 28, 2005, Adrian set sail from the south coast of England on his quest to voyage vertically around the earth by the most difficult route imaginable, via Cape Horn and the icebound waters of the Russian Arctic. He mortgaged his house and bought a unique stainless steel boat with the unlikely name of Barrabas. With limited funds and no means of paying a professional support team, he persuaded his ex-wife to manage the expedition. Adrian faced death when a rogue wave...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5 x 8.25
Author: Adrian Flanagan
ISBN: 9780753826102
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Life at Sea Level
Life at Sea Level - Book
SWP055
Life at Sea Level is the latest work of one of America s finest travel guide authors. For nearly 20 years, Stephen J Pavlidis has been writing books about the Bahamas and the Caribbean islands. He has written 14 guides covering virtually all the geography from south Florida to Trinidad and Tobago, including many lesser known destinations such as Guatemala and Honduras. That writing was done aboard his 40-foot sailboat, IV Play, making careful notes, tedious maps and talking to the locals he met ashore. Life at Sea Level is the latest work of one of America s finest travel guide authors. For nearly 20 years, Stephen J Pavlidis has been...
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Steven J. Pavlidis
ISBN: 9781892399335
$1995
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Cruising Conversations with A Daring Duo!
Cruising Conversations with A Daring Duo! - Book
SAI003
364 pages (includes 32 pages of COLOR photos) of mirth, introspection, experience, pathos and just plain lifestyle joy from two people who dared to be different and take to the sea on an '-unconventional'-sailing craft and find camaraderie, lasting friendships, and a business model that allowed them to prosper both intellectually and financially while enjoying a vigorous, healthful and productive life.
Product Type : Book
Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Charles & Corrine Kanter
ISBN: 9780961840693
$1995
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