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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 Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea
by Mary South Publisher Comments 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 decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months later...
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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...
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations...
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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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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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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
by Joan Druett Publisher Comments Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost...
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A Voyage for Madmen
by Peter Nichols
Publisher Comments In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the...
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Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (02 Edition)
by Tony Horwitz
Powells.com Staff Pick In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact his contact had on the indigenous populations...
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Berserk: My Voyage to the Antarctic in a Twenty-Seven-Foot Sailboat
by David Mercy Publisher Comments “THIS IS SUICIDE!” MANUEL SCREAMED FRANTICALLY. “WE’VE GOT TO GO BACK BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!” So begins the amazing true story of three men who shared the dream of going to Antarctica. The crew—a Norwegian captain...
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Shackleton's Boat Journey
by Frank Arthu Worsley Publisher Comments Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice,...
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The Last Run: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas
by Todd Lewan
Publisher Comments It was the catch of a lifetime. In late January 1998, after a miserable stretch of fishing that hadn't paid for even their groceries, the five-man crew of a seventy-nine-year-old Alaska schooner called the La Conte risked one last run to the Fairweather...
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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 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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Lost at sea :an American tragedy
by Patrick Dillon Publisher Comments Nationally acclaimed journalist Patrick Dillon delivers the arresting tragedy of the fourteen men and two state-of-the-art commercial fishing vessels that disappeared without a trace under 4,000 feet of freezing water in the Bering Sea in 1983 -- the...
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Adrift : Seventy - Six Days Lost At Sea (99 Edition)
by Steven Callahan Publisher Comments 'Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift...
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Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (98 Edition)
by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing...
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through...
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Sloop: Restoring My Family's Wooden Sailboat: An Adventure in Old-Fashioned Values
by Daniel Robb Publisher Comments When Daniel Robb set out to rebuild a family sailboat that had been deteriorating for years, he couldn't have anticipated what he was getting into. Although Robb was a skilled carpenter, boatbuilding (and boat repair) required a specialized set of skills....
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Maiden Voyage
by Tania Aebi Publisher Comments Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose...
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