Poetry and prose illustrate the major themes and currents of American literature from the 17th century

Leading international military and academic experts analyse 37 amphibious operations from the 'how not to do it' catastrophe of Gallipoli in 1915, through the Second World War, Vietnam and the Falklands, to the Al Faw landings in Iraq in 2003. German, Japanese and Soviet operations are included.

Saved from an inglorious end as a garden ornament, 'Amulet', a 26-foot wooden keel boat built in Fort William, Scotland in 1964, was restored by author and charter skipper, Bob Orrell. This is the story of the author's love-hate relationship with 'Amulet' during the 18-month restoration.

Product Description: This new edition of Anchorages and Marine Parks contains a special section on Haida Gwaii. Like its predecessors, it also provides details of the popular and useful anchorages throughout the Pacific Northwest. It includes references to the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve and covers the San Juan Islands, Desolation Sound, the Broughton Islands, the west coast of Vancouver Island and places south to north along the way between these destinations as well as the main waterways to the southern tip of Alaska...read more

Product Description: From the foundation of the settlement under the Honourable East India Company on February 6th, 1819 to the transfer to the Colonial Office as part of the colonial possessions of the Crown on April 1st, 1867. With an introduction by C. M. Turnbull.

Offers information based on the sailing program of the U.S. Naval Academy, giving detailed instructions for all levels of experience on developing and maintaining effective sailing skills

Product Description: Dodging between the Arctic floes, almost crushed several times, the little RCMP vessel St. Roch was the first ship to conquer the hazardous Northwest Passage from west to east. Two years later, in 1944, she did it from east to west...read more

Product Description: Enhanced Edition: 2015 we updated the book. Into the print book we placed QR codes which allow readers to download the free interactive book which provides hundreds of useful & always up-to-date links. The links connect the reader to the harbor authority, customs, up-to-date clearance requirements...read more

Product Description: Wind, waves, weather, and water demand the practiced art of seamanship "Planning and reacting to the unanticipated are the flip sides of seamanship. This blending of pre-voyage preparedness with effective on-the-water response is learned rather than inherent--together they define the art of seamanship...read more

Product Description: Arthur Ransome, author of the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, kept detailed logs of all his voyaging, and it is from these and countless letters to friends, as well as a wealth of anecdotes, that Roger Wardale pieced together this revealing, funny, and moving portrait of the lovable and intrepid old sea-dog, Captain Flint - alias Arthur Ransome himself...read more

Product Description: To anyone interested in small-boat cruising and voyaging, the names Lin and Larry Pardey need no introduction. As world-girdling sailors who roamed the planet on a pair of small, engineless boats that they built themselves, the Pardeys established their hard-earned reputations by eloquently (and sometimes controversially) telling their stories through a series of best-selling books and manuals, and countless seminars and boat shows...read more

Product Description: A selection of true-life dramas that chronicle the perils and misfortunes faced by deep-sea sailing ships of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It relates the dangers faced and the battles waged, and all too often lost, against the hazards of the sea...read more

An entertaining, comprehensive guide to the language and lore of 21st century seafarers. Packed with practical advice, this is a dictionary with a difference: many words are illustrated by passages from classic books of the sea, others by the author's experiences aboard an American schooner with a European engine and two boxes of tools. Sample entries from this informative and entertaining dictionary include: Bermuda Triangle: ...Given a choice between alien creatures and bad weather combined with inept seamanship and navigation, you should vote for the latter every time. The US Coast Guard certainly does... carry away, to: when any part of the standing rigging or a spar breaks it is said to have 'carried away.' What you say is probably unprintable. seasickness (mal de mer): a form of motion sickness usually brought on by a feeling of well-being and euphoria. Reputedly comes in two stages: during the first you fear you might die; during the second, you fear you might not.

Product Description: Bailey is a boat cat. He loves nothing more than cruising aboard Nocturne, gazing wistfully out of portholes, lounging on the sun deck wearing his cat lifejacket, climbing the mast and generally fulfilling his important boat-cat duties-and blogging about them at baileyboatcat...read more

Product Description: Now in full color. The basic book in the Certification Series. Instructs all basic sailing maneuvers in clear illustrations and spare text. Offers excellent, reassuring instruction in basic sailboat handling and sailing seamanship.