
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 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 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 details*A Newstatesman Book of the Year*' Nimble, vital, unexpectedly affecting' Observer Bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for ...
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 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 John Vallentine & Maxine Maters In 2012 Russia began opening its vast network of inland waterways to foreign pleasure craft. A year later, ...
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 detailsH W Tilman With a Foreword by Tony Howard Upon this trackless waste of snow, cut by a shrewd wind, they sat down and wept. In China to Chitral H.W...
View full detailsBy H. W. Bill Tilman The eight books collected here are humorous, learned, devastatingly candid, and packed with information. They recount voyages ...
View full detailsArthur Ransome’s account of his maiden voyage in his beloved Racundra, which took him from Latvia, via Estonia, to Finland and back in 1922.By: Ar...
View full detailsBy 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 ...
View full details'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...'Scholar, spy, d...
View full detailsBy Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. One of the youngest member...
View full detailsThe Summer Voyage from East to West Scotland of the Anassa By Mairi Hedderwick In Sea Change, writer and artist Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-w...
View full detailsOnly one person has ever sailed vertically around the world singlehandedly - Adrian Flanagan. Sailing horizontally is difficult enough, crossing th...
View full detailsBy John Caldwell In May 1946 John Caldwell set out to sail from Panama to Sydney to reunite with his wife who he hadn't seen for more than a year....
View full detailsBy Joshua Slocum Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventu...
View full detailsThis is the story of Bernard and Francoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back ...
View full details**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019**' Weymouth combines ...
View full detailsBy Roald Amundsen An Account of the Norwegian Antartctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-12
On 21 February 1968, Wally Herbert and his team of three companions and forty huskies set out from Point Barrow, Alaska, embarking on a journey tha...
View full detailsBy Hampton Sides The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as t...
View full detailsH W Tilman With a Foreword by Bob Shepton I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the p...
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