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LUCKY GOES TO SEA.By Frank Robson. Paperback. 130mm x 20mm, 232 pages, black and white photos.
In Lucky For Me, Frank Robson and his partner, Leisa, rescued Lucky, a mischievous, cream-coloured terrier on Death Row, and embraced him as the third member of their high-spirited, boat-mad family.
Now Lucky Goes to Sea takes you on an unforgettable journey, with a four-legged hero guaranteed to make you laugh, and steal your heart.
NZ$27.00 + Delivery
THE MAGNETIC NORTH.By Sara Wheeler. Paperback. 354 pages, 130mm x 197mm, black & white photographs.
Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controversy. The Magnetic North is a spicy confection of history, science and reflection in which Sara Wheeler meditates on the role of the Arctic: fragmented lands which fed imaginations long before the scientists and oilmen showed up (not to mention desperado explorers who ate their own shoes). The Magnetic North tells of all this, plus gulag ghosts, old and new Russia, colliding cultures and bioaccumulated toxins in polar bears.
Chosen as the Book of the Year by Will Self, Micahel Palin, A,N Wilson, Robert Carver and others. Received outstanding interviews in the Sunday Times, Literary Review and the Scotsman.
NZ$30.00 + Delivery
117 DAYS ADRIFT.By Maurice and Maralyn Bailey. Paperback, 140mm X 216mm, 192 pages, monochrome illustrations.
When their yacht sank beneath them in the Pacific Ocean, the Bailey family were destined to enter the record books. Their survival for nearly four months in a rubber raft - relying on their own efforts to catch food and water - is a fantastic human story of adaptation to totally alien conditions. It is a story of amazing courage, resolution and endurance and , in their remarkable survival, an outstanding demonstration of the unconquerable human spirit.
Essential reading for all who love the sea and for all who enjoy a gripping true story. 117 Days Adrift was originally published in 1974 and remains a fascinating and inspiring tale that has become one of the classics of the sea.
NZ$50.00 + Delivery
DARWIN'S ARMADA.By Iain McCalman. Paperback. 420 pages, 130mm x 200mm, colour plates.
Darwin was just one part of a radical challenge to established ways of thinking about the origin of humans. Three other ambitious young naturalists – Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace – undertook long hazardous sea journeys of their own, discovering and documenting new specimens. The common hardships they endured forged lifelong friendships, and the group became the vanguard of the social and intellectual battle to convince the world of Darwin’s theory.
In Darwin’s Armada, the Darwinian revolution is portrayed for the first time as a collective enterprise, forged in Australasia by four remarkable men who did together what one alone could not: changed the world.
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1788 - THE BRUTAL TRUTH OF THE FIRST FLEET.By David Hill. Paperback, 130mm X 200mm, 392 pages, monochrome paintings.
Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Eleven of the tiniest ships sailed for eight months over the roughest of seas, carrying fifteen hundred people, food for two years and all the equipment needed to build a colony of convicts in a land completely beyond their experience and imagination.
In Portsmouth the fleet's preparation was characterised by disease, promiscuity and death. The journey itself was one of unbearable hardship, but also of extraordinary resilience, with the majority of settlers and exiles making it alive to the new colony at Sydney Cove. There, however, they faced their biggest challenges of all: conflict, starvation and despair.
Combining the skill of a vigilant journalist with the magic of a master novelist, David Hill brings the sights, sounds, sufferings and triumphs of the First Fleeters back to life. Journals, letters, reports and pleas to England are all interwoven here with the author's own insight and empathy to convey the innermost horrors and joys of the very first European Australians. The result is a narrative history that is surprising, compelling and unforgettable.
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THE LAST FISH TALE.By Mark Kurlansky. Paperback, 142mm X 203mm, 268 pages, black & white photographs and drawings.
Is fishing at sea - an ancient trade and a way of life that has defined coastal towns throughout history - coming to an end?
Are the culture and traditions of coastal Britain and of seagoing nations everywhere now threatened with extinction?
Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed?
Has the number of large fish in the ocean decreased by 90 percent over the past 50 years, as has been asserted by a respected scientist?
In his most important book yet, Mark Kurlansky - the celebrated anthor of Cod, Salt and The big oyster - explores the fate of our oceans and the decline of our most ancient coastal enterprise. The Last Fish Tale sends up a timely distress flare but one which briliantly illuminates a colourful, exuberant and poignant landscape, from Newlyn in Cornwall to Gloucester in Massachusetts - a fishing village first settled by Englishmen in the early 1600s. The result is a cultural, economic, environmental and culinary bouillabaisse - the most compelling fish tale of our time.
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TOTAL LOSS.By Paul Gelder. Paperback, 128mm X 198mm, 274 pages.
Total Loss is an enthralling collection of dramatic stories of yachts lost at sea. From the tragic sinking of the yacht Ouzo, run down or swamped by a P&O ferry in the English Channel, to an eyewitness account of the wreck of Hooligan V, here are gripping tales of collisions with UFOs (Unidentified Floating Objects), fire, explosion, crew exhaustion, severe weather, navigational blunders, capsize and dismastings that will have you on the edge of your seat.
Total Loss holds the reader in morbid fascination whilst offering insights into strategies which could save the lives of skippers and crew. It is a compelling, thought-provoking read.
Paul Gelder is the editor of yachting Monthly and has sailed a wide variety of yachts from classics such as Gypsy Moth IV to ocean racers and family cruising yachts.
NZ$30.00 + Delivery
BARROW'S BOYS, A Stiring Story of Daring, Fortitude and Outright Lunacy.By Fergus Fleming. Pbk, 130mm X 195mm, 489 pages, monochrome photographs and drawings.
The atlas of 1816 was littered with blanks. What was the North Pole? Was there a north-west Passage? Did Antarctica exist?
In his quest to find the answers to these questions John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, launched the most ambitious programme of exploration the world had ever seen.
This book brings these expeditions together in one volume, showing the strategic intent as well as the adventures themselves. A major interest in this book is that, in the modern idium for accounts of exploration, each tale includes a great deal of anecdotal narrative concerning the personalities involved. This brings the stories alive in a remarkable way.
NZ$35.00 + Delivery
LEFT FOR DEAD. By Nick Ward with Sinead O'Brien. Pbk, 127mm x 197mm, 279 pages, black & white and colour photogtaphs.
Sailing in the Fastnet Race on the yacht Grimalkin had been a dream come true for Nick, but the dream turned to a nightmare when, in the midst of colossal waves and unremitting winds, Grimalkin was capsized again and again. The skipper was lost overboard, and after hours of exhausting struggle three of the crew abandoned the boat for the life raft. Nick and his fellow crewmemeber Gerry, both injured and unconscious, were left on the beleaguered yacht, presumed dead.
In the middle of the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing, Nick Ward somehow managed to live to tell his tale. The world famous Fastnet Race of 1979 began in near perfect weather, but within 48 hours was struck by a horrific storm. By the time it has passed, it had mercilessly taken the lives of 15 sailors.
This is Nick Ward's moving and inspirational account of his survival - against all odds - a story that has remained untold for 27 years, until now.
NZ$25.00 + Delivery
THIS THING OF DARKNESS. ISBN 0-7553-0281-8.By Harry Thompson. Pbk, 130mm x 196mm, 744 pages.
1828. Brilliant young naval officer Robert Fitzroy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...
"This brilliant recreation of their journey is in turns terrifying, hilarious and uplifting. This was a fundamentally important episode in our history and it emerges with extraordinary clarity through the twists and rising tensions of a great thriller".
NZ$28.00 + delivery.
RASCAL OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC.By Athol Rusden. Pbk, 152mm x 230mm, 408 pages, monochrome photographs.
This is not a story about fame or glory or notable achievements or recognition. Such attributes, worthy as they might be, are superfluous to the real essence of life. It is about the fellow traveller that dwells within each of us. The essence and spirit of adventure that we can all relate to. In taking his "wish list" seriously, Athol created the greatest reward of all - golden memories free of remorse and regret - which he now generouly shares with the reader.
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MOITESSIER: A SAILING LEGEND. By Jean-Michel Barrault. Pbk, 150mm x 225mm, 234 pages.
Introduction by Peter Nichols
If you are a fan of Bernard Moitessier you will enjoy this book. Jean-Michel Barrault was a close and lasting friend and has given us an insight to Moitessier, snippets of work and thoughts that eventually would come out in Moitessier's writing. What a determined man in all his life, to live it as he wanted, no one could push him to produce work that would not be to his own standards. Admired by the sailing world and people in general. His philosophy on life touched all types of people, not just those involved with the sea. A man who perhaps was allways thinking, not how to make more money but how we can live in harmony with our earth.An inspirational read.
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
THREE MEN IN A BOAT. By Jerome K. Jerome. Pbk, 128mm x 198mm, 177 pages.
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', it hilariously captured the spirit of its age.
NZ$24.00 + delivery.
ICE BIRD. By David Lewis. Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 223 pages, monochrome photos.
David Lewis and his 32-foot yacht, Ice Bird, set sail from Sydney, Australia in 1972 on a search for high adventure. The voyage, full of drama, emotion, and pain, took place in some of the most treacherous waters in the world.
No one had ever sailed a yacht single-handed to Antarctica until David Lewis. Along the way, he would not touch land for more than 14 weeks, facing mountainous seas, constant gales, snowstorms, and freezing temperatures. What started as high adventure became a fight for his life against the odds. Twice his small yacht was capsized and once it was dismasted 3,500 miles from help. his survival was a miracle of fortitude, skill, and some luck.
Ice Bird is one of the great true sea stories of the twentieth century. It is also a tale of human endurance; a testimony of one man's will to overcome almost anything and everything - physical and psychological - to stay alive.
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
SOLE SURVIVORS OF THE SEA. By James E. Wise Jr. Paperback, 150mm x 228mm, 203 pages, monochrome photos.
The incredible stories of twenty-two lone survivors of maritime disasters are presented in this collection of war and peacetime incidents. These dramatic accounts, including those of a British sailor who survived 133 days at sea on an open raft and a German sailor who spent 28 hours in the ocean without a life preserver, are based on interviews with the survivors and their families as well as the official records to ducument their accuracy. Most events took place during World War II, when the navies and merchant fleets of many nations roamed the seas of the world. Each story is one of boundless courage, a tenacious will to survive, and, in many cases, good luck.
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
TREACHERY. By Julian Stockwin, Paperback, 152mm x 232mm, 344 pages.
After offending an Admiral, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd is sent to guard the Channel Islands. His career in tatters, he then makes a terrible enemy on his own side. When he is brutally betrayed off the Normandy Coast and dismissed his ship, only his old friend Renzi is willing to stick by him.
Then Kydd is given an extraordinary opportunity to salvage his fortunes and return to the sea as captain of a privateer. But privateers are hated by the French and the Royal Navy alike. To keep fighting his country's battle and win back the glory taken from him, he must prowl the Atlantic. A lone wolf of the seas, he and his men are prepared to risk everything to capture the wealthy French traders and heavily armed fighting ships returning to Bonaparte.
NZ$39.00 + delivery.
NARROW DOG TO CARCASSONE. By Terry Darlington, Paperback, 126mm x 197mm, 425 pages.
When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet Jim.
On the Phyllis May you dive through six-foot waves in the Channel, are swept down the terrible Rhone, and fight for your life in a storm among the flamingos of the Camargue. You meet the French nobody meets - poets, captains, historians, drunks, bargees, men with guns, scholars, madmen - they all want to know the people on the painted boat and their narrow dog.
You visit the France nobody knows - the backwaters of Flanders, the canals beneath Paris, the heavenly Yonne, the lost Burgundy Canal, the islands of the Saone, and the forbidden ways to the Mediterranean. Aliens, dicks, trolls, vandals, gongoozlers, killer fish and the walking dead all stand between our three innocents and their goal - many-towered Carcassonne.
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NORTH BY NORTHWESTERN. By Captain Sig Hansen and Mark Sundeen, Hardback, 162mm x 242mm, 320 pages, colour photos.
For Captain Sig Hansen and his brothers, Norman & Edgar, commercial fishing is as much a part of their Norwegian heritage as are their names. Descendents of the Vikings who roamed and ruled the northern seas for centuries, Sig and his brothers learned to fish from their father when they were boys, just as their father has learned from his father. The Hansen's connection to the sea stretches from Alaska to Seattle and all the way to Norway. After twenty years as a skipper on the commercial fishing vessel Northwestern - which was his father's before him - Sig has lived to tell the tales.
Sig first went out onto the Bering Sea at the age of twelve and has returned every season for four decades. With its brutal storms of forty-foot waves, gale winds, freezing spray, adn treacherous ice cover, the Bering Sea is a true frontier, deadly in its unpredictibility. To be a successful fisherman, you need to be a mechanic, navigator, welder, painter, carpenter, and sometimes, a firefighter. To be a successful fisherman year after year, you need to be a survivor.
In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerously brutal conditions to achieve the American Dream. This is the story of a family of survivors. Part memoir and part adventure tale, this book brings readers on deck, into the dockside bars, and into the history of a family with a common destiny. Built around the gripping tale of a deadly shipwreck like The Perfect Storm, North by Northwestern is the multigenerational history of the Hansen family, a clan of tough Norwegian-American fisherman who have become modern-day folk heroes.
NZ$50.00 + delivery.
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