Captain Joshua Slocum
Ant. by R. Scher

This edition of the classic tale of J. Slocums circumnavigation in a small wooden yacht is annotated by R. Scher - who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context.

Pb. 224pp 230x150mm

by Maldwin Drummond

The story of a voyage to rediscover the ways of Edward Lear, artist and author through his paintings, diaries and letters. Lear lived for many decades in Italy. He sailed from the Isle of Wight through the French canals to Italy and Sicily.
Richly illustrated with some of Lear's own most accomplished work, and the author's photographs and sketches.

Paperback

by Robert Orrell

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, the rig suffered a disasterous blowout. While attempting a rescue, the standby ship sank with the loss of three men. A harrowing account, with a postscript 30 years on.

194pp, illustrations, paperback

By C. A. Latimer

In1959 12 people set sail from England to New Zealand in seventy foot Nort Sea Trawler, planning to sell her at a good profit. This book tells the story of an ill-prepared and prolonged passage....
'.. a good snapshot of maritime life at the end of the 1950's' Classic Boat.

168p Pb b/w photos.

By A. Villiers

A journal of a voyage round the world in the sailing ship 'Joseph Conrad' during the years 1934 - 36. The journey was via Good Hope, the South Seas, East Indies and Cape Horn. Alan Villiers bought the ship in Copenhagen in 1934.

Pb. 415p 19 b/w photos

By Cecily Gould

Gossip was a 12 metre cutter built in 1899 - this is the story of the boat, of the man who owned her from 1920 and the adventures he had in her with his family - through the war years and after. The book follows the yachts fortunes after her sale in 1964, up to the time of the final disaster.

208p illus. Pb

The True Story of a Boy Who Went to Sea and Came Back a Man

by Russ Hofvendahl

As the San Francisco waterfront struggled in the grip of the Great Depression, 15 year old Russ Hofvendahl talked his way aboard a four-masted schooner and sailed out to catch cod in the Bering Sea. Featuring many period photos of the ship and crew, Hofvendahl's laconic, candid and compelling narrative recounts this formative journey with vivid anecdotes depicting a world that exists today only in memory.

Paperback, illustrated, 251pp

by Peter Villiers

Before he published his first novel in 1895, Joseph Conrad spent twenty years in the merchant navy, eventually obtaining his master's ticket and commanding the barque 'Otago', in which he sailed a notable passage from Sydney to Mauritius. This book traces his sea-career, and shows how Captain Jozef Konrad Koreniowski, master mariner, became Joseph Conrad, master novelist.

Illustrated with twelve colour paintings of Conrad's ships by the marine artist Mark Myers.

paperback

by Ben Pester

'UK to New Zealand the hard way'

This charming account of the voyage of two men in a small boat half way round the world from Plymouth to New Zealand in 1953 is a rare insight into a time, not long ago, when sailors had no GPS, electronics, radio or any of the mod cons that we take for granted today. Without lifejacket or a liferaft, they 'just took what came along', hand steering all the way, navigating by sextant, hand-cranking their engine and using oil lamps for light at night and for navigation.

Part travelogue and part adventure story, the two friends encountered drunken harbourmasters, the mafia, the legacy of slavery and lost civilisations in the Pacific. Beautifully written, vivid in its descriptions of the two men's exploits ashore and on board, this quirky and entertaining book will be a fascinating read for sailors and non-sailors alike.

Paperback, 224pp, 8 pages of b/w and colour photos.

Biography of Bill Tilman
By T. Madge

Biography of the legendary British mountaneer and sailor who sailed a sucession of British Channel Piolot Cutters to the Arctic and Antartic. Lost in his 80th year in Antartic waters.
Hb 288p

'Being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schooner yacht 'Foam' to Iceland, Jan Meyers and Spitzbergen.'

by Lord Dufferin

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, Paul Theroux or Jonathan Raban.

228pp, illus., paperback

From Salvage Tug to Super Yacht

by Jon Julian

Lone Ranger worked as a salvage tug (then named Simson) and towed some of the largest oil installations ever built during twenty of the most challenging years in the history of the business. During the mid-1990s she embarked on a second career and has become the world's pre-eminent exploration yacht. As befits her name she goes to the cold extremes of latitude where few other ships are found, but is also seen in the warm seas of the Caribbean and Mediterranean. She begins her fourth decade as supremely seaworthy as ever with more long voyages in prospect, thanks to the vision and commitment of her owner and crew.

Hardback, 160pp, colour and b/w photos.

by Maurice Griffiths

Probably the last and best memorial to a beautiful area which may never again be the same.

240pp line drawings (paperback

RRP £9.99 OUR PRICE £8.99

By M.Griffiths

Gift edition of the classic.
246x189mm 192p 20 draw.

RRP £15.99 OUR PRICE £12.99

By J. Hood

In 1792 the East Indiaman Winterton with a cargo of 300,000 silver dollars, was wrecked off Madagascar. 300 crew were washed up on the beach, 40 perished. Jack Dale, the senior surviving officer, rigged up the ship's yawl and set off with 6 others to get help. That was just the beginning - in the meantime war broke out between Britain and France.. the group was captured ...

Hb

By Capt. J. Voss

The Sailors Classics library - in 1904 Capt. Voss completed a 3 year journey across three oceans in a Native American dugout canoe converted to sail.

By J. Raban

A passge from vancouver Sound to the Alaskan border, Raban also brings alive the past of this coast - Indians, fur-traders, explorers and missionaries.

Pb 435p

By Arthur Ransome

This account, from the author of Swallows and Amazons, describes how Ransome built Racundra in Latvia and sailed her to Finland & back. An exact reprint of the 1923 edition, containing many original Ransome photos and drawings.

235x150mm 256p 62 photos. 8 maps 3 sketches Hb

RRP £20.00 OUR PRICE £16.00

By Arthur Ransome

A previously unpublished Ransome story. It describes a cruise in Latvia with his new wife Evgenia (formerly Trotsky's secretary): they go up the Aa River from Riga to Mitau and back. A classic Ransomme story, illustrated with his own photos.

235x150mm 128p 60 photos. Hb

RRP £14.95 OUR PRICE £11.99

by Commander R D Graham

A true classic of the sea - the story of the first single handed voyages across the North Atlantic, braving hurricanes and food poisoning, in a small engineless gaff cutter, long before the days of GPS.
By the father of Helen Tew, author of 'Transatlantic at Last'.

208pp, paperback

By Maury

From the Sailors Classics library - in 1933 23 year old Richard Maury set sail from Connecticut in the 35' schooner 'Cimba' bound for Fiji. Maury's account is an extraordinary tale of high adventure, acclaimed for its depictions of sea's unbearable beauty and annihilating fury.

By Captain Joshua Slocum

Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop 'Spray' stands as one of the all time great sea adventures. Classic narrative which continues to enjoy immense popularity.

320pp, illus, paperback.

Capt. Joshua Slocum

A fully illustrated, cloth bound edition of the famous classic by the first man to circumnavigate the globe single handed.

294pp, hardback

By Guy Bernardin

A family retraces Joshua Slocum's voyage. Bernardin, a French racing sailor takes his wife and 3 year old son on a voyage retracing Slocum's famous voyage, in a replica boat.

228x150mm 256pp, 21 photos, maps illus. hardback

By Max Wood

Around the World on the Square Rigged Passat (1946-1948)

In the last days of the commercial voyages of any cargo square rigger, this book documents a lost way of life, vividly, honestly and in detail. The exhaustion, cameraderie, hard work, terrors, frequent boredom, sexual frustration, fatigue and the pride of challenging the awesome forces of nature for little reward.

168p Pb

By John Lea

The River Blackwater provides the background for this story of Essex seafaring. An accurate study of men and craft that have sailed from these small communities. A varied story whith fishermen, bargemen, boatbuilders, sailmakers, wildfowlers and smugglers join the sailing smacks, barges, great yachts, as well as the local seamen who became captains.

230x178mm 200p Pb

By F. Mulville

From the accounts of 'Integrity's' owner and the crew who abandoned her, the author pieces together the whole story - with a first hand account of the climax.

'..a gripping story of the best intentions gone awry' Wooden Boat

170p illus. Pb

by Ernest K Gann

This is the story of Gann's much loved vessels, his 17 sirens. Filled with moments of both drama and calm, this book reveals the romantic within every sailor. The sirens range from the 117 ton 'Albatross' to the incredible 'Butterfly' - little more than a raft.

'A true and often poetic saga of his many sea voyages' Newsweek

318p Pb

By William H Longyard

A unique look back over 500 years to chronicle the greatest ocean voyages attempted in the smallest boats - rowboats, tiny sail boats, canoes...

Including:
Diego Mendez voyage to rescue Columbus, William Oakley's 1639 escape from slavery in a folding rowboat, Hugo Vihlen's 1968 ocean crossing in a 6 foot sailboat, ernest shackleton and William Bligh's journeys, Peter Bird's tragic attempt to row the Pacific and more...

by Maurice Griffiths

For over fifty years Maurice Griffiths cruised in a variety of small yachts amongst the rivers and creeks of the Thames Estuary and round the coasts of Suffolk, Essex and Kent. In this classic book he tells of the boats he owned in that time, and shows how the experience gained with these small craft helped to turn him into a dedicated yacht designer.

192pp 8 drawings, paperback

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By A. Bailey

This classic was first published in the USA 30 years ago, but is printed in the UK for the first time..

226pp, paperback.

by Lowell D Holmes

Cruising the South Seas with Robert Louis Stevenson

This account of Stevenson's Pacific wanderings in search of health and understanding is an enchanting mix of high seas adventure and a fresh view of the fragile writer and his eccentric but devoted family. Holmes, an anthropologist and a sailor, senses a kindred spirit as he describes Stevenson's fascination and respect for the island cultures.

304pp, illustrations, hardback

by Captain Joshua Slocum, edited by Walter M Teller

The collected works of 19th century seafarer Joshua Slocum, annotated and introduced by the leading expert on his life and voyages. With all Slocum's writings in one volume, including material not available anywhere else - unequaled, first-hand accounts of life and death on the high seas during the age of sail.

406pp, illustrations, hardback

By Robin Knox Johnston
The First ever Non-Stop Solo Round the World Voyage

In 1968 ' Suhaili' slipped out of Falmouth Harbour steered by Knox Johnston. Ten and a half months later, Robin returned with the paint peeling, rust streaked hull, weathered and brown sails. Every hazard was encountered and overcome. This incredible adventure was an instant best seller and is now being reissued.

256pp 216x138mm, paperback, b/w map, 2004 edition, photos 8 colour photos

RRP £9.99 OUR PRICE £8.99