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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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Girl On The Orlop Deck
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Beryl Kingston |
She will find her husband, even if it means enlisting…
Portsmouth, 1803. The British Navy headed by Lord Admiral Nelson himself are in pursuit of Johnny Frenchman.
For months, there have been r… |
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Flying Cloud
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David W. Shaw |
In 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud -- traveling from New … |
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Dare the wind
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Tracey E. Fern |
"Ellen Prentiss felt the sea tug at her heart, strong as a full-moon tide. She loved the water so much that her papa taught her to navigate his schooner across Massachusetts Bay. Soon she was racin… |
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Blue water dreams
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Dena Hankins |
Lania Marchiol keeps a wary sailor's gaze trained on the horizon. Somewhere out there, the perfect boat is waiting to take her around the world in a self-sufficient home powered by wind, sunshine, a… |
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The secret she kept
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Amelia Carr |
Fearless Felicity Penrose thrives on adventure: she's one of the most experienced female sailors in the world. But one day, in the late 1950s, her boat is found abandoned, drifting off the Cornish co… |
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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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