
The Last Grain Race
By Eric Newby An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last `grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby...
View full detailsBy Eric Newby An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last `grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby...
View full detailsThe rhythmic lullaby of 'North Utsire, South Utsire' has been lulling the nation's insomniacs to sleep for over 90 years. It has inspired songs, po...
View full detailsBy Erling Kagge This breathtaking, inspiring little book teaches us how to find precious moments of silence - whether we are crossing the Antarcti...
View full detailsThis trilogy tells how Ian Nicolson, yachtsman, naval architect and author, joined a Canadian and a Norwegian to sail the 45-foot ketch Maken from ...
View full detailsAdventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotla...
View full detailsH W Tilman With a Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston ‘So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming bir...
View full detailsBy Meredith Hooper In August 1914, during the height of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off from England with a...
View full details*A Newstatesman Book of the Year*' Nimble, vital, unexpectedly affecting' Observer Bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for ...
View full detailsThe Lost Classic of Victorian Cruising H. Lewis Jones An exemplary read—Sam Llewellyn, The Marine Quarterly The tide made up very fast, and so...
View full detailsBy W. E. Bowman An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favourite s...
View full detailsA Sunday Times 'Must Read' book. Described by the Sunday Times as "a gently studious Bill Bryson crossed with an upbeat and relaxed WG Sebald", Tid...
View full details'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is large...
View full detailsBy John Steinbeck In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebra...
View full detailsBy Dieter Loibner A great book for all classic boat fans. The classic 24 ft Nordic Folkboat has been around for 60 years. Many sleeker, lighter and...
View full detailsOur immensely popular first book is back in a softcover edition, and we're delighted that the Yorkshire poet, writer and broadcaster Ian Mcmillan, ...
View full detailsBy Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure wa...
View full detailsBy Nic Compton Whether used for transport, adventure, work, or sport, boats have played a vital role in human history and have inspired numerous s...
View full detailsH W Tilman With a Foreword by Libby Purves ‘Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat.No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure’ So read the c...
View full detailsBy John Vallentine & Maxine Maters In 2012 Russia began opening its vast network of inland waterways to foreign pleasure craft. A year later, ...
View full detailsExploring Thames Estuary By-ways Under Sail Tony Smith — ‘Creeksailor’ Sea-Country is Tony Smith's name for that sprawling and magical world on ...
View full detailsJohn R Muir With a Foreword by Sam Llewellyn Inexplicably out of print since the late 1940s, Messing About in Boats is one of the most charming a...
View full detailsArthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the Goblin Peter Willis With a Foreword by Libby Purves ‘There’s more than a touch of irony about the title o...
View full detailsBy Tom Nancollas 'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaper An enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who buil...
View full details'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runc...
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