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 Sailing Uphill: An Unconventional Life on the WaterBest Price: $12.71 " I will again go a-voyaging." Sam McKinney has spent some of the most interesting... |  Shipwrecks, Sea Stories and Legends of the Delaware CoastBest Price: $4.59 |  Always a Distant AnchorageBest Price: $76.76 Hal and his wife truly enjoy a constant ocean craving, that of the give and take of mother-sea. ... |  Sailing Alone Around the WorldBest Price: $28.74 Challenged by an expert who said it couldn't be done, Josua Slocum, an indomitable New... |  Two Years Before the Mast - A Sailing LifeBest Price: $42.45 A detailed, almost daily, record giving an accurate and authentic narrative of over two years in... |
 Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous ShipwrecksBest Price: $13.81 I have been thinking about what I wanted to say in a review of this book as I finished it up... |  Love BoatsBest Price: $1.38 Ms. Saunders is a really good con artist, as she writes in her first chapter. She conned her... |  Cruising Japan To New Zealand: The Voyage Of The Sea QuestBest Price: $18.58 Following several years spent cruising the South Pacific Islands, Tere Batham and her husband... |  Seagulls in My Soup: Further Adventures of a Wayward SailorBest Price: $4.79 I've read most of Tristan Jone's books, and they all have a distinct writing style.... |  Let Me Survive: A True StoryBest Price: $10.64 On September 30th, 1994, Louise Longo embarked with her husband and 5-year-old daughter on a... |
 9 Years on the 7 SeasBest Price: $201.00 More than any other book, 9 Years On The 7 Sea's, was the one journal that prompted my... |  Nerves And Common SenseBest Price: $11.94 Annie Payson Call tells it like it is.... if you insist on constantly over reacting, worrying,... |  Far Away PlacesBest Price: $27.17 In June 1977, Anthony Blondell and Dr. Bertha Paegel sailed out of the harbor at Long Beach,... |  Caribbean Pirates: A Treasure Chest of Fact, Fiction, and Folklore |  Uphill All the WayBest Price: $13.68 Called "the world's toughest yacht race," the BT Global Challenge lived up to its... |
 A Single Wave: Stories of Storms and SurvivalBest Price: $15.93 Webb Chiles set several records while bailing his way through cyclones, capsizes, cold and wet... |  A Splendid Madness: A Man, a Boat, a Love StoryBest Price: $2.89 This book could have been set anywhere, but it takes place on the Hudson River, a half hour... |  Sell Up & SailBest Price: $11.99 Despite the title, there is very little practical advice in this book about actually selling up... |  Up the Creek: A Lifetime Spent Trying to Be a SailorBest Price: $8.86 Up the Creek charts Tony JamesÃ?Â? unintentional voyage from his home in landlocked... |  Two Years Before the Mast (Signet Classics)Best Price: $4.41 In a way, the best thing for a writer is misfortune. In that regard, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. got... |
 Around the World Single-Handed: The Cruise of the "Islander" (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure)Best Price: $74.98 Call me an escapist, but I love this book. To accompany Mr. Pidgeon as he builds the Islander... |  Song Of SirensThis is one of the most impassioned accounts of seafaring you will ever read, and all the more... |  Personal Best: Chasing the Wind Above and Below the EquatorBest Price: $14.09 Personal Best: Chasing the Wind Above and Below the Equator is more than a sailing adventure.... |  Shipwrecks of the Explorers (Watts Library (Tb)) |  LA Hacienda and Other StoriesBest Price: $16.37 Joining the British Merchant Navy straight from school. The story follows the fortunes of a... |
 Pirates and Privateers in the New World (Cover-To-Cover Books)Best Price: $8.50 Were the pirates of the New World heroes, explorers, brave sailors, greedy men, or criminals?... |  The Slope of the WindBest Price: $15.26 In this tale of life at sea the author tells of voyages round the Horn and his time in the Aland... |  The Voyage of DetroitBest Price: $12.95 In 1912 Thomas Fleming Day, editor of The Rudder , decided to demonstrate the reliability of... |  A Different Drummer (Adventures in History)Best Price: $3.51 This book introduces Thoreau's philosophy to the young reader (ages 7-10) through the eyes... |  Saga of Cimba the |
 Love for SailBest Price: $13.03 Unbelievable marvelous book about cruising & sailing. I read it years ago and forgot... |  The Boy, Me, and the CatBest Price: $7.82 Charming has become perhaps a devalued word and is a little old-fashioned. So is this book, and... |  Racing the Ice to Cape HornBest Price: $146.64 Frank Gurnsey undertook an adventure that compares favorably to the conquest of Everest. No one... |  The Virgin Islands Illustrated: A Sailing OdysseyBest Price: $7.96 I was quite disappointed with this book for several reasons. First, it is not a travel or... |  A Speck on the SeaBest Price: $7.93 I got this book as a birthday present. Thanks, Honey! It was on my wish list. I'm a small... |
 Through Europe at Four Knots: A Tale of Boating Mayhem and Family AdventureBest Price: $14.62 An avid armchair traveller, I am always on the lookout for books of travel adventure. This book... |  40,000 Miles in a Canoe (The Sailor's Classics #3)Best Price: $20.00 I am not someone you would normally find reading a book on high sea adventure but for other... |  The Romantic Challenge (The Mariner's Library)Best Price: $92.72 This is the thrilling story of Chichester's attempt to make the fastest crossing of the... |  Painting the Last Post - Two Years on T. S. ArethusaI am an ex-Arethusa boy, and a member of the Arethusa Old Boys. This book was recomended to me... |  Offbeat Cruises & Excursions: From the Amazon Jungle to the Antarctic IcecapBest Price: $4.79 |
 Enoch's Voyage: Life on a Whaleship 1851-1854Best Price: $26.05 "This is a diary of my great-great-grandfather, Enoch Carter Cloud, who as a young man ran... |  Ten Degrees of Reckoning: The True Story of a Family's Love and the Will to SurviveBest Price: $2.63 Ten Degrees of Reckoning is very heart-breaking stuff. The book would have received five stars... |  Seraffyn's Oriental AdventureA new edition of the fourth volume in a series of titles which relate the experiences of a young... |  The Race: Extreme Sailing and Its Ultimate Event: Nonstop, Round-the-World, No Holds BarredAn invigorating behind-the-scenes look at the world of extreme sailing, The Race is also a taut,... |  A Voyage For MadmenBest Price: $29.94 There have been an amazing number of books about sailing adventures released over the past... |
 Once Is EnoughBest Price: $5.55 Once Is Enough is more than enough, especially south of Cape Horn. Perserverance and seamanship... |  The Water in BetweenBest Price: $0.25 Mr. Patterson tells us pretty quickly that he prefers books and ideas to the world at large. ... |  Ten Degrees of Reckoning: A True Story of SurvivalBest Price: $0.51 Incredible story. My heart goes out to Judy Sleavin. She is a brave, brave woman! | 9 Years on the 7 Seas Best Price: $201.00 More than any other book, 9 Years On The 7 Sea's, was the one journal that prompted my... | Nerves And Common Sense Best Price: $11.94 Annie Payson Call tells it like it is.... if you insist on constantly over reacting, worrying,... |
| Far Away Places Best Price: $27.17 In June 1977, Anthony Blondell and Dr. Bertha Paegel sailed out of the harbor at Long Beach,... | Caribbean Pirates: A Treasure Chest of Fact, Fiction, and Folklore | Uphill All the Way Best Price: $13.68 Called "the world's toughest yacht race," the BT Global Challenge lived up to its... | A Single Wave: Stories of Storms and Survival Best Price: $15.93 Webb Chiles set several records while bailing his way through cyclones, capsizes, cold and wet... | A Splendid Madness: A Man, a Boat, a Love Story Best Price: $2.89 This book could have been set anywhere, but it takes place on the Hudson River, a half hour... |
| Sell Up & Sail Best Price: $11.99 Despite the title, there is very little practical advice in this book about actually selling up... | Up the Creek: A Lifetime Spent Trying to Be a Sailor Best Price: $8.86 Up the Creek charts Tony JamesÃ?Â? unintentional voyage from his home in landlocked... |  Sailing Alone Around the WorldBest Price: $28.94 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was... |  Water in Between: A Journey at SeaA broken heart leads Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island,... |  Dangerous Crossings (Restless Sea (Sagebrush))Best Price: $24.45 |
 The Race: Extreme Sailing and Its Ultimate Event: Nonstop, Round-the-World, No Holds BarredBest Price: $0.24 It is the story of a great race told by a sailor. Any person who knows about ocean racing cannot... |  Rascal and MeBest Price: $18.23 This is the remarkable story of a successful businessman's 7,661-mile solo circumnavigation... |  First You Have to Row a (Gemstar) Little Boat |  Sailing Away from Winter: A Cruise from Nova Scotia to Florida and BeyondBest Price: $10.91 Sailing Away from Winter After reading the first page of Sailing Away From Winter ... |  Daring the SeaBest Price: $23.38 With all the adventure stories out there, this one from the late 1800's has been lost or... |
 Steered by the Falling Stars: A Father's JourneyBest Price: $1.50 In this powerful memoir, the author's long-planned sailboat voyage begins auspiciously, with... |  The Islands of the Sulu SeaBest Price: $15.95 A young man finds adventure in the South Seas -- heart-stopping encounters with crocodiles and... |  Sons of Sindbad: The PhotographsBest Price: $19.13 In 1939 Alan Villiers made a number of coasting trip around Arabia and East Africa in a... |  Shipwreck Disasters (Catastrophe!)Best Price: $23.95 |  Storms and Wild WaterBest Price: $15.43 This is a definite must read, and the most informative and interesting read I have experienced... |
 Great Lakes Passenger Ship Disasters:Best Price: $21.90 I got this book in the U.P. three years ago on a trip with a friend of mine. I always enjoyed... |  Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea (Adrenaline)Best Price: $4.02 In this anthology, editor Clint Willis gives readers some of the best sea stories of all time.... |  Near Death on the High Seas (Vintage Departures Original)?The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the... |  The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of SailBest Price: $7.20 Lundy uses an interesting, entertaining and very informative format of combining a factual... |  I Came I Saw I Lost My LuggageBest Price: $13.99 Peter Biddlecombe has carved out a niche writing silly, amusing travel essays about his business... |
 First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life & LivingBest Price: $7.00 I first got this book a couple years ago at Christmas. The title appealed to me as I love the... |  The Race: The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing CompetitionBest Price: $10.85 The Race acccurately describes the complex human dynamics, emotional tension, technological... |  Fair Wind and Plenty of It : A Modern-Day Tall-Ship AdventureWho among us hasn't dreamed of packing it all in and sailing around the world? A chance to... |  Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its MeaningsBest Price: $6.98 Let me see if I can write a review that does justice to this book and at the same time explain... |  Stories from eighty years of travel and adventure |
 SUMMER STUDIESBest Price: $17.77 Mr. Dwelle's book is interesting. There is no better or more complete history of the cities... |  Treasure Hunt! (Crabtree Connections)Best Price: $3.07 |  Boats and Boating in the AdirondacksBest Price: $24.23 Hallie Bond has written a masterful account rich with history and funky details about one of... |  Pirates |  Sea StruckBest Price: $20.74 Some people seem to be born with salt water running in their veins and as soon as they are able,... |
 First Time AroundThis is a recounting of a families circumnavigation in a 30 ft. sail boat. It is not a... |  Fielding's Worldwide Guide to Cruises |  Return to MurmanskBest Price: $23.62 In 1990, Henry Swain sailed his 34-foot yacht Callisto to Murmansk. He had been there once... |  Perilous Seas: Exciting True Stories about Diasters and Heroism on and Under the SeaBest Price: $45.57 |  Red Sky in MourningBest Price: $4.30 First of all, Tami's story is astounding. As for what she went through, and for her... |
 Windy ThoughtsBest Price: $16.92 I totally loved this book and recommend it to anyone interested in a well written and thrilling... |  Sailing Alone Around the WorldBest Price: $20.50 The sea and inland waters have given us some great writers. Joseph Conrad was a sea captain,... |  Sailing Alone Around the World (Illustrated Edition)Best Price: $11.15 First published in book form in 1900, this is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his... |  Keeping Australia on the Left: A Catamaran Odyssey Around AustraliaBest Price: $399.38 This is a nice book about a great journey around Australia. Mark and Sue set out in 1986 on a... |  Flirting With Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery SkipperBest Price: $8.92 I enjoyed reading FWM. I found it to be a lighthearted title & had purchased the book on a... |
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