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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Staff Pick The heyday of whaling examined through the plight of the Whaleship Essex. This is the best sort of popular history writing.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (Vintage Departures) by Jonathan Raban From Powells.com "I had a boat, most of a spring and summer, a cargo of books, and the kind of dream of self-enrichment that spurs everyone who sails north from Seattle," explains Jonathan Raban at the outset of his journey along the Inside Passage from... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (59 Edition) by Alfred Lansing From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Publisher Comments Classic of sea adventure conveys all the excitement of being the first man to sail around the world, alone, in small boat. Pirates, perils, witty observations, stories. 67 illustrations. ..".a literary gem, adroitly and engagingly written."--National... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Publisher Comments She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester Staff Pick This biography of the Atlantic Ocean encompasses myth and geology, trade and war and discovery — proving once again that Winchester knows how to dig deep and sift out the story. An engrossing tale from a master storyteller.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Titanic, First Accounts: (Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) by Tim Maltin Publisher Comments Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic--in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover art. Historic firsthand accounts and testimonies by survivors and eye- witnesses including Lawrence Beesley, Margaret Brown, Archibald Gracie, Carlos F. Hurd... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea by Linda Greenlaw Publisher Comments America's only female swordfish boat captain returns with this long- awaited follow-up to the bestselling The Hungry Ocean. After the exploits recounted in The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean that made her a sensation, Linda Greenlaw took a ten- year... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger Publisher Comments It was "The Perfect Storm," a tempest created by so rare a convergence of factors — a hurricane from Bermuda, a Canadian cold front, and a storm from the Great Lakes — that it could not possibly have been worse. Boasting ferocious waves ten... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Perfect Storm: a True Story of Men Against the Sea (97 Edition) by Junger Publisher Comments October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"—a tempest that may happen only once in a century—a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir by William F Stark Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl Publisher Comments The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Gently with the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard by Michael L Frankel Book News Annotation The former editor of Living Aboard Journal presents demographic statistics, practical guidelines, legal hints, galley and provisioning advice, and the pros and cons of living on a boat. He draws on firsthand accounts and his own experiences, writing... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cook : Extraordinary Sea Voyages of Captain James Cook (03 Edition) by Nicholas Thomas Publisher Comments Commonly regarded as the greatest sea explorer of all time, James Cook made his three world-changing voyages during the 1770s, at a time when ships were routinely lost around the English coast. He made history by making geography-- sailing through... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard Publisher Comments In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered -- Captain James Cook. This... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Two Voyages I Remember Signed Edition by Cornelius Sawyer Publisher Comments During 1966 and 1967, Buzz Sawyer wasn't just serving in the Mess Hall on a Merchant Marine vessel. He absorbed the sights and sounds of the locations he visited. The girls looked lovely, the Jazz was sweet, and the people were hospitable and generous... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Captain James Cook: A Biography by Richard Hough Publisher Comments James Cook, born in 1728, was one of the most celebrated men of his time, the last and the greatest of the romantic navigator/explorers. His voyages in the Royal Navy to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific, the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-467) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Book Club Paperback
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