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Author: Maldwin Drummond Format: Paperback Our Code: BK0078 This is the story of a journey in search of the character and work of the Victorian polymath Edward Lear (1812-1888). Best known today as a...» more
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Author: Edited by Tristan Lovering Format: Hardback Our Code: BK0103 In this uniquely authoritative study, leading international military and academic experts analyse 37 amphibious operations, from ‘...» more
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Author: ROBERT ORRELL Format: PAPERBACK Our Code: BK0241 Life on an oil rig is brutal and dangerous, as Bob Orrell discovered, as a radio operator on the Hewett ‘A’. At the height of a winter gale, t...» more
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Author: BOB ROBERTS Format: PAPERBACK Our Code: BK0332 Exciting sailing narrative trading under sail evoking vivid picture of those times in the Thames sailing barge Cambria. In Breeze for a Bargeman...» more
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Author: VICTOR SLOCUM Format: PAPERBACK. Our Code: BK0405 Captain Joshua Slocum’s famous voyage in the 36-foot sloop Spray was only the culmination of a life filled with adventure, pioneering and ent...» more
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Author: VICTOR SLOCUM Format: PAPERBACK Our Code: BK0427 An anthology of three famous castaway true stories, written by the son of Joshua Slocum. The Easter Island castaways, Shackletons voyage in th...» more
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Author: Bob Roberts Format: Paperback Our Code: BK0573 A vivid account of the romance and the reality of coastal trade in sailing vessels in the nineteen thirties and forties. Foreword by Des Sleight...» more
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Author: Anthony Bailey Format: Hardback Our Code: BK0573A The New England coast, a small cruising sloop, warm winds - and Anthony Bailey’s seductive storytelling powers. Hb 358pp
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Author: JACK LONDON Format: PAPERBACK Our Code: BK0673 Jack London was a master of the adventure story and a highly successul writer, but this book is a true account of his own voyage across the Paci...» more
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Author: Frank Mulville Format: Paperback Our Code: BK0803 When Girl Stella hit the rocks with Frank Mulville and his family aboard, it wasn’t only his boat that was lost – his self-esteem went too. I...» more
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Author: Lady Cecily Gould Format: Paperback Our Code: BK1118A The story of a twelve-metre cutter built in 1899, the remarkable man who owned her from 1920, and the adventures he and his family had in...» more
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Author: Russ Hofvendahl Format: Paperback Our Code: BK1197 As the San Francisco waterfront struggled in the grip of the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Russ Hofvendahl talked his way aboard a four...» more
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Author: Peter Villiers Format: Papeback Our Code: BK1441 Before he published his first novel in 1895, Joseph Conrad spent 20 years in the merchant navy, eventually obtaining his master’s ticket and c...» more
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Author: Bob Roberts Format: Paperback Our Code: BK1522A ‘Sailormen’ was what the old Thames barge men called their vessels – the last sailing vessels to carry a commercial cargo. The last of them all...» more
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Author: Lord Dufferin Format: Paperback Our Code: BK1549A The lively style and humour of this account instantly made it a Victorian best-seller. As fresh today as the travel-writing of Eric Newby, Pa...» more
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Author: John Julian Format: Paperback Our Code: BK1589 Lone Ranger worked as a salvage tug (then named Simson) and towed some of the largest oil instal...» more
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Author: Gordon Brown Format: Paperback Our Code: BK1744 One or two skippers of the sailing barges that crowded the Thames in the 1930s have given accounts of their lives as sailormen; now it is the t...» more
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Author: Jean-Michel Barrault Format: Paperback Our Code: BK1853 It was during the Golden Globe, the first solo non-stop race around the world, and with victory within his reach, that Bernard Moitessi...» more
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Author: Frank Mulville Format: Paperback Our Code: BK1972 When prize-winning author Frank Mulville set out for Argentina aboard his classic gaff cutter Iskra the journey was to re-awaken memories of...» more
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Author: Martin Eve Format: Paperback Our Code: BK2059A The story of Privateer, a traditional “old gaffer” built sixty years ago as a fishing smack. Pb 200pp...» more
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