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  • Sailing Around Britain

    A Weekend Sailor's Voyage in 50 Day Sails

    par Kim Sturgess ...
    Collections Livre 5 - Making Waves
    Kim Sturgess was a weekend sailor: he enjoyed club racing and several brief sailing holidays, but had never attempted a substantial expedition. Reaching the age of fifty focused the mind and he decided to sail around Britain. While many cruising sailors would not contemplate a 1900 nautical mile voyage, he broke the voyage into a series of day sails, making it an achievable ambition for him, ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Two Years Before the Mast

    Enriched edition. A Vivid First-Person Maritime Memoir of Hardship, Labor, and Transformation on an Early 19th-Century Voyage

    Richard Henry Dana's 'Two Years Before the Mast' is a seminal work that eloquently captures the rigors and realities of life at sea in the early 19th century. Written in a vivid, first-person narrative, the book blends travelogue, adventure, and maritime memoir, transporting readers into the harsh, yet transformative experiences of Dana's two-year voyage from Boston to California. His keen ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $2.99 CAD Maintenant $1.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

    Now Filmed As The Mercy

    'A masterpiece.' New Yorker'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday TimesIn 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunity to showcase... ... En savoir plus

    $0.99 CAD

  • Lost!

    A Harrowing True Story of Disaster at Sea

    par Thomas Thompson ...
    From the bestselling author of Blood and Money: A haunting true story of three people locked in a fierce struggle against time and the sea—and each other.In July 1973, Bob Tininenko; his wife, Linda; and his brother in-law, Jim Fisher, set sail from Tacoma, Washington, on a thirty-one-foot trimaran down the West Coast to Costa Rica. The journey was expected to take a matter of weeks, but ten days ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Unsinkable

    A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

    Abby Sutherland grew up sailing.Her father, Laurence, a shipwright, and her mother, Marianne, wanted their kids to develop responsibility, to see other cultures, to experience the world instead of watching it on TV. So they took them sailing down the coast of Mexico... for three years.When Abby was thirteen, she began helping her father deliver boats and soon was sailing solo. She loved being on ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Iced In

    Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica

    par Chris Turney ...
    “The Antarctic Factor: if anything can go wrong, it will. It's basically Murphy's Law on steroids.” —Chris TurneyOn Christmas Eve 2013, off the coast of East Antarctica, an abrupt weather change trapped the *Shokalskiy—*the ship carrying earth scientist Chris Turney and seventy-one others involved in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition—in densely packed sea ice, 1400 miles from civilization. The ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD

  • Tell Tales - The Sailing Adventures of Norlee

    par Diana Neggo ...
    Ever felt like stepping off the treadmill, taking a year off work and sailing a yacht around Australia? Well, if you are reading this then it's a good chance you have, during an occasional daydream, let go the mooring lines of work and family and quietly left the harbour to see what lies around the next headland or what white sandy bay awaits. Rob Manning and Diana Neggo turned that very same ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Old Man and the Sea

    A True Story of Crossing the Atlantic by Raft

    par Anthony Smith ...
    Octogenarian Anthony Smith's journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) and the incredible story of the survivors of a 1940 boat disaster, who spent 70 days adrift in the Atlantic, eventually reaching land emaciated and close to death.While this might sound like a voyage no-one would wish to emulate, to octogenarian Anthony Smith it sounded like ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • A Steady Trade

    A Boyhood at Sea

    par Tristan Jones ...
    A memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Wales and developing a love of sailing and adventure, by the author of The Incredible Voyage.Tristan Jones vividly and colorfully describes his childhood as a Welsh boy growing up by the sea. The story of his boyhood in pre-World War II England is strikingly charming and nostalgic. The challenges and adventures he encounters will have you seeing, smelling ... En savoir plus

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  • Once Upon a Gypsy Moon

    An Improbable Voyage and One Man's Yearning for Redemption

    par Michael Hurley ...
    Michael Hurley watched his world unravel in the wake of infidelity, divorce and failure. In August 2009, he was short of money, out of a job, and seeking to salvage a life that had foundered. Deeply in need of perspective, he took to the open seas in a 32-foot sailboat, Gypsy Moon. The story of his 2-year outward odyssey, deterred by rough weather and mechanical troubles, combines keen observation ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Winter in Fireland

    A Patagonian Sailing Adventure

    Collections series Wayfarer
    After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures in Patagonia when, taking time off from his job as a schoolteacher in Buenos Aires in the late ... En savoir plus

    $22.39 CAD

  • Circle Line

    Around London in a Small Boat

    Magic, to a sailor, is harnessing the wind – getting something for nothing – the surprise of a gust, the boon of a side-wind and the trial of a headwind and best of all, the moment when a change in direction means turning away from the head seas and wind and spray in silence and warmth. In 1969, man flew to the moon and sailed around the world solo. In 2009, sailor and Londoner Steffan Meyric ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD