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Pirates (Collins Gem)
by Collins Gem  Publisher Comments <center><p> Yarr Matey </p></center> <p><i>Pirates</i> covers everything from peg legs to parrots, including: </p> <ul> <li><p>Profiles of real pirates from John Paul Jones and Blackbeard...
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex — an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner,...
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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...
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The Hungry Ocean
by Linda Greenlaw Publisher Comments In The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East...
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: A Narrative Account by Owen Chase, First Mate
by Owen Chase Publisher Comments On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats....
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The Sea Hunters II
by Clive Cussler Publisher Comments For 23 years, Cussler's NUMA--the National Underwater & Marine Agency--has scoured Earth's waters in search of lost ships of historic significance. This collection contains more of their true adventures. Illustrations....
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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...
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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...
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
by Gary Kinder
Publisher Comments In September 1857, the S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina coast. More than 400 men — and 21 tons of gold — were lost. In the...
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of Thelast Mysteries of World War II
by Robert Kurson Publisher Comments In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two recreational scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat 60 miles off the New Jersey coast. The wreck lay in 230 feet of ocean water, too deep and dangerous for all but the most accomplished scuba...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing Publisher Comments In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face...
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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...
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The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
by Derek Lundy Publisher Comments Chapter One Down to the Seas ...as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. Herman Melville, "Moby Dick Off the pitch of the Horn. Wind at full-gale strength, waves as high as the maintop,...
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Lost at Sea
by Patrick Dillon Publisher Comments On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to begin a grueling three-month season fishing in the notorious Bering Sea. Eleven days later...
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Knots, Splices, and Line Handling (Captain's Quick Guides)
by Captains Quick Guide Publisher Comments The essential information every boater needs--onboard and at your fingertips On the water, when questions arise, there is no time to spend searching through an exhaustive manual. The Captain's QuickGuides provide all the answers--fast. Drawn from the...
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Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
by Rob Mundle Publisher Comments Harrowing shoreside reading!"--"Booklist"<P>One of the world's three great ocean sailing competitions, the annual 630-mile race from Sydney, Australia, to Hobart, Tasmania, pits sailboats against the notoriously rough waters of Bass Strait and the...
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The Ties That Bind: Life's Most Essential Knots and Ties (Finishing Touches Series)
by Susan Oliver Publisher Comments When we were kids, Mom or Dad taught us how to tie our shoes and fold our clothes. Most of us have been left to our own devices ever since! "Finishing Touches</I> is STC's small and stylish answer to our need to relearn all those basic home-keeping...
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The Last Run: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas
by Todd Lewan Publisher Comments Now in paperback--the epic tale of the oldest registered fishing vessel in Alaska, which wrecked in the Gulf of Alaska in 1998 during the worst Arctic storm in years, and the heroic efforts of three teams of Coast Guard aviators to rescue the survivors...
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Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo (Vintage Departures)
by Tracy Johnston Publisher Comments A thrilling, touching, and densely instructive book, Shooting the Boh is also a frank self-portrait of a woman facing her most corrosive fears--and triumphing over them--with fortitude and unflagging wit. "A captivating and truly offbeat rite of passage"....
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Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe
by Gregory Gibson Synopsis The story of the "Globe" mutiny is one of unending fascination. Dovetailing Gibson's riveting account of the mutiny is the history of the sperm oil industry, its Nantucket Quaker powerbrokers, and the growth of American naval influence. Above all, the...
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