Product Description: Tales of adventures on the high seas captivate both sailors and those who stand on the shore and gaze out across the oceans. In this original collection of sea stories, edited by veteran writer Dick Durham, the gamut of human experience is mirrored in a world of tragic shipwrecks and sea monsters, epic races and brave rescues, tall ships and tiny dinghies...read more

Product Description: Lifelong fisherman Paul Knight knows the thrill of the chase, the one–on–one battle of endurance between man and beast that is sport fishing. Like Hemingway, and legions of others who've tested themselves against nature, Knight has traveled to remote parts of the globe to reel in stories of epic adventures with rod and line...read more

Product Description: Plutarch's series of biographies were the first of their kind, as much ground breaking in conception as Herodotus was with his "Histories". Plutarch looked at the great men of the Ancient World and told their stories, in many cases drawing on sources which are no longer available to us...read more

Product Description: In 1962, an American student at Oxford falls in love with an English girl, but it ends abruptly and painfully - and for her, tragically. When they meet again it is as President David Bradley and Prime Minister Alison Lane, in the midst of a growing international crisis.