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The cure for anything is salt water
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Mary South |
At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she deci… |
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Saga of a wayward sailor
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Tristan Jones |
Tristan Jones was one of the most acclaimed sea-faring storytellers ever. The combative Welshman was born at sea on a ship off Tristan da Cunha. He dropped out of school at 14 to work on sailing ba… |
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Captain Cook
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Frank McLynn |
Profiles the famous navigator, addresses the common colonialist misconceptions about the explorer and his death, and re-creates the voyages that took him from his native England to the outer reaches … |
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Jack Tar's story
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Myra C. Glenn |
"Jack Tar's Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It is the first study to use … |
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Please enjoy your happiness
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Paul Brinkley-Rogers |
"Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a myste… |
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Over the top
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Adrian Flanagan |
"In 1975, when Adrian Flanagan was fifteen, he read Sir Francis Chichester's account of his record-breaking circumnavigation and a dream began to form. Thirty years later, on 28 October 2005, Adrian … |
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Too Young to Die
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John Boileau,Dan Black,John de Chastelain |
484 pages : 24 cm |
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Relato de un náufrago
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Gabriel García Márquez |
On t.p.: . . . who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government … |
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Left for dead
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Nick Ward |
'Left for Dead' is the tragic and inspirational story of Nick Ward's survival against all the odds. It is the story of an ordinary man who survived an extraordinary event. It was an experience which … |
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Taking on the World
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Ellen MacArthur |
When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes people feel like they … |
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Master of the Titanic
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Pat Lacey |
359 pages ; 22 cm |
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Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em
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Mike Ostlund |
xviii, 524 pages : 23 cm |
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