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The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television. The novel "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain". It was a...
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Written in clear, nontechnical language and enhanced with illustrations, this book traces the evolution of the sailig ship over the course of 6,000 years - from ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century. It provides detailed coverage of ships from ancient Egypt and Crete (4000-1000 B.C.); Phoenician, Greek and Roman ships; and Eurpoean, Asian, and American ships from the Middle ages to modern times.
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The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
4) Ghosting
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Dr. Jack Scales, a prominent neurosurgeon, is at the peak of his career. To celebrate, he decides to make up for lost time and buys a sailing yacht christened Slow Dance, for a family cruise to Bermuda. But, the family is strained: Jack's wife Arlen is secretly considering leaving the marriage; Rick, their bipolar twenty-year-old son, may need to be committed to a group home; Haley, a rebellious teenager, would rather be anywhere but trapped on a...
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The offshore novels volume 1
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Crime and adventure on the high seas
Jared Kane is a West Coast commercial fisherman whose life has been plagued by bad luck and blackout drinking. When he inherits Arrow, an old 46-foot wooden sailboat, he sees a chance for redemption. With his friend from prison, Danny MacLean, Jared plans an offshore voyage, sailing from Vancouver down the Pacific Coast to California and out into the South Pacific.
But that bad luck rears its
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Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
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A Mollie McGhie sailing mystery volume 1
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What would you do if your hubby gave you the worst anniversary gift ever? A dilapidated sailboat for your anniversary-not very romantic. A dead body on board-even worse. Mollie McGhie is hoping for diamonds for her tenth wedding anniversary. Instead, her clueless hubby presents her with a rundown boat. She's not impressed. When she discovers someone murdered on board, things get even worse. Mollie hopes it will convince her husband to rethink his...
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"All that Nathaniel Boyd wants is to be left alone on his Cap Cod salt marsh. His hopes of marriage with Meredith Butler died years ago, not long after the accidental death of his youngest brother Jacob. When their father asks the brothers to sail a schooner down from Boston to Yarmouth Port harbor, an unexpected passenger causes chaos for all the Boyds. Into this unsettled atmosphere their father dies, further churning the world as they know it....
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This guide is aimed at those wand to learn yachting. It is full of essential information and useful pointers and tips to help get you started.
If you think that even setting foot on a yacht would involve spending the next year living on a diet of mud and navel fluff then this is the book for you.
The book is a complete reference for every level of sailor, if you are a beginner and need a straightforward, easy-to-understand guide. This book is the...
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In print continuously since it was first published in 1953, "The Arts of the Sailor" by marine expert Hervey Garrett Smith is one of the finest compendium on the art and skill of rigging ever written. Smith, born in 1896 in Long Island, New York was a graduate of the Pratt Institute and was an artist and illustrator who provided illustrations for such publications as National Geographic and boating magazines. He also wrote several books on the traditional...
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Mise à jour septembre 2018.
Vous naviguez dans les Canaries ou en avez l'intention?
Ces îles sont un véritable paradis pour les navigateurs. Nos guides écrits par un amoureux des Canaries qui y navigue régulièrement et en a l'expérience pratique vous en donnent les clés.
Vous y trouverez les informations administratives indispensables, les magasins d'accastillage, tous les artisans qui offrent des services aux navigateurs: motoristes, voiliers,...
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A sailboat is as close as humankind can come to approximating the wondrous beauty of God's creation. When we raise sail, we acknowledge that we can conjoin with the forces of nature to create an image of kinetic beauty that occupies a moment or two of time, like a shooting star or a flash of lightning-glorious and troubling together. Aboard, the sailor is hard at work to keep sail and helm perfectly poised against the wind. Observers on the shore,...
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We have heard it all before, the spice of life is in the journey not the destination. This 'pages from the logbook' is a delightful idiosyncratic rendition of a journey that was eccentric in conception, cavalier in its enterprise and surprising in paradise discovered. After-all, what else would you expect when you put your 78 year old mother and a barrel of sherry on a small wooden boat casting off the lines to navigate the 'ship wreck coast' before...
17) The Upside Down Spinnaker: Ups and Downs of Cruising, Racing, And Buying Cruiser Size Sail Boats
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This book captures the essence of two separate and different sailing "careers." The author and his collaborator friend began their careers in sailing, together, at an early age. Neither teenager knew then what would transpire after they rented and sailed together open cockpit day sailors in Biscayne Bay waters between Miami Beach and Miami, Florida. During the seventy years that followed, they rarely had opportunities to sail together. But both individually...
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Winner of the2011 Dan Poynter Global eBook Award in the non-fiction category Some time ago, Gene Grossman signed on as a crew-member with some friends of his who were delivering a large sailboat with no navigation electronics from Marina del Rey California, through the Panama Canal, to a charter company's tropical island location. On the evening of departure, Gene asked the young skipper (Ron) which crew-member was going to be acting as navigator....
19) The Great Sport of Rowing: A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History of the Oarsman
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Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection of classic magazines we have compiled a series of informative publications on the subject of sport. The titles in this range include 'Correct Technique for the Great Sport of Golf,' 'A Traditional Guide to Swimming and Diving,' 'The Gentleman's Sport of Hunting,' and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular...
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Buckrammer's Tales In the Fall of 2003, Catboat Summers, a collection of boating memoirs hit bookseller's shelves. It quickly became a bestseller among nautical books, praised by reviewers and readers alike. This new compilation continues in the same mold ... but with a bit more edge. As in Catboat Summers, the "Tales" in this book are paced so that each can each be read in "one shot." If you favor ghost stories, near disasters, family boating misadventures...
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