Biography

This trilogy tells how Ian Nicolson, yachtsman, naval architect and author, joined a Canadian and a Norwegian to sail the 45-foot ketch Maken from ...

A Yachtman's Gossip H. Alker Tripp Illustrated with pen drawings and oil sketches by the author The ordinary yachtsman has many yarns to tell, b...

Our immensely popular first book is back in a softcover edition, and we're delighted that the Yorkshire poet, writer and broadcaster Ian Mcmillan, ...

Remembering the Boats A lifetime with the North Sea fishing fleet Gloria Wilson Fishing boats, particularly those along the eastern seaboard of ...

By Jonathan Raban 'Raban is, for my money, one of the key writers of the past three decades - not only for his immense stylistic showmanship, but ...

'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...'Scholar, spy, d...

Mike Peyton is the world's most famous nautical cartoonist - the Matt or Giles of the sailing world. This is his authorised biography, complete wit...

The story of one man’s search for freedom through sail, his voyage out to St Kilda and his musings on the islanders’ sense of freedom.By: Martyn M...

A Father, his Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea 'The passages he addresses directly to Phoebe are as tender as the father-daughter letters in Karl Ove...

By Les Powles Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided to sail solo around the world. Many novices would be content to ju...

Letters from High Latitudes, Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 in the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen By Lord Duff...

Eleven original, moving accounts which celebrate the lives and recount the final voyages of well-known yachtsmen, all friends of or known to the au...

By Robin Knox-Johnston On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figu...

For decades, boat building has catered for the rich and the elite, and has been out of the reach of ordinary people both economically and culturall...

Dr Thomas Harrison Butler was a skilled, yet amateur, designer responsible for some hundreds of classic English cruising yachts which still grace o...

By John Leather “Form follows function,” as it has been said; when that form enters the realm of Art, we have something timelessly memorable.—Ia...

By Ian Smith Arthur Beale supplied many prestigious explorers and mountaineers including Edward WhymperEdward Whymper, FRSE (1840 – 1911) was an En...

By Luke Powell Luke Powell is so modest about his achievements that he will probably be slightly amazed when described as a 'national treasure'. Be...

The classic bestseller, the great sailing adventure story of Donald Crowhurst. Now a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz, di...

The unforgettable account of British naval experiencein World War II J. P. W. Mallalieu With a new Introduction by Brian Lavery First published t...

“Combines matters of biography, science, engineering, technology, art, history, economics and politics seemingly effortlessly and definitely seamle...

Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spiri...

A Biography of H W Tilman J R L Anderson With a Foreword by Tim Madge Harold William ‘Bill’ Tilman (1898-1977) was among the greatest adventurers ...

In this journalistic masterpiece, the authors reconstruct Crowhurst's last journey. They reveal that he had radioed messages from his supposed roun...