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NARROW DOG TO INDIAN RIVER.By Terry Darlington. Paperback, 127mm x 198mm, 431 pages.
No one has ever sailed an English narrowboat in the USA before...for reasons that become clear as Terry and Monica Darlington and their whippet Jim sail down the little-known Eastern Seaboard of the USA - including thirty-mile sea crossings, blasting heat, tornadoes, alligators, and the walking dead...
But the real danger comes from the Good Ole Boys and Girls of the Deep South waiting along the shore. Captains and planters, heroes and drunks, dancing dicks and beautiful spies all want to meet the Brits on their painted boat and their thin dog and take them home and party them to death.
Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida - lost arcadias, shining sounds, and incomparable cities - a thousand miles unfold at six miles an hour on a hilarious, dangerous and always surprising journey through a wonderland.
NZ$28.00 + delivery.
TRUE SPIRIT.By Jessica Watson. Paperback, 154mm x 233mm, 367 pages, full colour photos.
On 15 May 2010, after 210 days at sea and 24,285 nautical miles, 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed her yacht, Ella's Pink Lady, triumphantly back into Sydney Harbour. She had become the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around the world. It seemed the whole country stopped to welcome her home.
Inspired by the sailors who had gone before her, people of Joshua Slocum, Don McIntyre, Kay Cottee, Ellen MacArthur and, especially, Jesse Martin, she had spent years preparing for this moment, focused on achieving her dream.
When she collided with a 63,000-tonne bulk carrier during her final sea trials, it seemed to many she'd failed before she'd even begun. But Jessica brushed herself off, held her head high and kept going.
Never once did she lose sight of her goal.
In her own words, True Spirit tells how a young girl from Queensland, once afraid of everything, decided to test herself. This extraordinary adventure would see her develop the mental strength to deal with knockdowns, loneliness, wild seas and endless days going nowhere. It is an inspiring story that ultimately proves that we all have the power to live our dreams - no matter how small or how big they are.
NZ$40.00 + delivery
BLUE RIVER, BLACK SEA.By Andrew Eames. Hardback, 145mm x 223mm, 432 pages, full colour photos.
The Danube, Europe's Amazon, flows through more countries than any other river on earth. It runs like an artery from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's furthest flung fringe, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. A voyage along its length bring you face to face with the continent's biggest names and bloodiest history, and means getting up close and personal with the New Europe.
Starting at the river's source, Andrew Eames takes a fascinating and revelatory journey by bicycle, horse, boat and on foot. He knocks on Schloss doors in the hope of finding accomodation for the night with Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns. He travels through grim areas of intensive heavy industry as well as idyllic rural countryside where bears still roam. He meets would-be kings, walks with gypsies and hitches a ride on a Serbian barge. His journey takes him through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania - and includes a brief stopover chez Dracula in Transylvania.
Blue River, Black Sea is an absorbing and highly entertaining book which explores the limits of our knowledge about the New Europe. Andrew Eames does not shrink from analysing the difficult issues of migration and cultural identity he encounters along the way, and his book seeks to find an answer to some of the most complex problems facing Europe today.
NZ$30.00 + delivery
WINDY THOUGHTS.By Joyce Green. Paperback, 152mm x 228mm, 484 pages, monochrome photos.
A book for the serious offshore cruiser and armchair sailor alike, Windy Thoughts is a tale of circumnavigation written from the viewpoint of the ships's first mate.
Filled with poignant and self-effacing humor, this book is an inspiring story recounting the joys and delights available to offshore cruisers: unparalleled physical beauty and rich cultural experiences, found in all corners of the world.
Life on blue water in a 35-foot sailboat is not without its challenge, however, this book skillfully blends the reality of life afloat with the romance of pursuing one's dream.
NZ$80.00 + delivery.
VOYAGES OF A SIMPLE SAILORBy Roger Taylor. Paperback, 140mm x 216mm, 260 pages, monochrome photos.
Aged just 23, and already set on a life of adventure, Roger Taylor signed up as an able seaman on the square-rigger Endeavour II for New Zealand. The voyage turned into a terrifying ordeal as the ship was caught in a tropical storm. Embayed between two headlands the ship was driven towards a hostile lee shore. The Endeavour II finally struck land in horrific conditions at one in the morning. There seemed little chance of survival...
Following this formative experience, Roger resolved that from then on he would ever only go to sea on his own terms, single-handed and in easily manageable yachts. He built the 19 foot Roc and twice crossed the Tasman Sea in her - the smallest craft then to have made the crossing.
Roger continued to develop his ideas on the importance of simplicity in ocean voyaging and sailed his 21 foot junk-rigged Corribee Mingming in the first Jester Challenge. This was a voyage of calms, frustrations and mature reflection.
NZ$75.00 + delivery.
RAIDERS & REBELS.By Frank Sherry. Paperback, 152mm x 228mm, 399 pages, monochrome drawings.
The most authoratative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colourful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who terrorized the seas. From 1692 to 1725, pirates sailed the oceans of the world, plundering ships laden with the riches of India, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Often portrayed as larger-than-life characters, these outlaw figures and their bloodthirsty exploits have long been immortalized in fiction and film. But beneath the legends is the true story of these brigands - often common men and women escaping the social and economic restrictions of eighteen-century Europe and Aemrica, Their activities threatened the beginnings of world trade and jeopardized the security of empires. And together, the author argues, they fashioned a surprisingly democratic society powerful enough to defy the world.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
TAKING ON THE WORLD.By Ellen MacArthur. Pbk, 130mm x 200mm, 396 pages, full colour photographs.
On 11th February 2001, Ellen MacAurthur sailed into port in France completing the Vendee Globe, the world's toughest race. Alone and unsupported, she had spent more than three months at sea and had beaten everything that the race could throw at her - storms, icy seas, exhaustion, rigging failures and, when she was fighting for first place, a catastrophic collision with a submerged object that could have cost her not just the lead, but her life.
Throughout, Ellen never forgot that she was chasing a dream. To give it any less than her all would be to let down herself and everyone who believed in her. She knew that she could not give up.
This is the story of the youngest person ever to complete the race and the fastest woman to circumnavigate the globe. It is her story, from childhood in landlocked Derbyshire, to the finishing line of the Vendee Globe.
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
SHAPES ON THE WIND Updated Edition, The Acclaimed Autobiography of David Lewis, 1917 - 2002.By David Lewis. Pbk, 130mm x 200mm (A4), 274 pages, full colour and monochrome photographs and drawings.
This edition of the author's autobiography was published shortly after his death in October 2002. In the late 1960's Dr David Lewis' adventuring took on a scientific focus with a groundbreaking crossing of the 1600 nautical miles between Tahiti and New Zealand using only traditional Polynesian navigation. This accomplishment upset conventional wisdom about the settlement of the Pacific - which did not take into account the possibility of planned, two way voyaging.
During the 1970's and 1980's, when Dr Lewis was into his seventies, he made his mark with expeditions to Antarctica. Not only were these voyages epic journeys in their own right, but also they were important environmental expeditions in an area which up to that time received comparatively little attention from environmentalists.
As this updated autobiography shows, Dr David Lewis was undiminished by his years and fading eyesight and hearing, and pursued his adventuring until months before his death.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
THE LONG WAYBy Bernard Moitessier. Pbk, 135mm x 210mm, 252 pages, monochrome drawings and maps.
This saga began as the Round the World Race for single handed yachts. The route was from Plymouth, rounding the three great capes (quoted from the race instructions - "leave Cape Horn to port"), the voyage was expected to be nearly a year's sailing.
For the author the race finished in mid-Pacific after he had passed the three Capes and crossed his outward track, thereby circumnavigating the globe. He forfeited the race and finally anchored amongst old friends in Tahiti.
The incident caused a media uproar and the usual conspiracy hoo-har that people who no understanding of single-handed sailing do in such circumstances.
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
THE PEKING BATTLES CAPE HORNBy Irving Johnson. Pbk, 132mm x 188mm, 192 pages, monochrome photographs.
"I had a hankering to make a long voyage in one of the old-time square rigger." And that is just what Irving Johnson did, in 1929-30, shipping out from Germany round Cape Horn to Chile in the big four-masted bark Peking. Seen through the eyes of an adventurous young sailor, this spirited account ranks as one of the classics of man against the sea and is a living testament to life aboard one of the world's most famous tall ships, now preserved at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City.
NZ$38.00 + Delivery.
THE HAL ROTH SEAFARING TRILOGYBy Hal Roth, Hbk, 158mm x 235mm, 254 pages.
Hal Roth's vivid, authentic tales of the sea have riveted readers around the world for forty years. Here, in one volume, are three of his classic sea stories, each one a white-knuckled, rail-down voyage into the unknown.
A hard-working San Fransisco husband and wife abandon their jobs, their security, and, some would say, their sanity to sail their 35-foot sloop to Japan and back - the long way! Over the next nineteen months, they discover exotic islands, fascinating people, and a whole new way of life.
A few years later these intrepid voyagers decide to try their luck against Cape Horn, but they will need a lot more than luck to survive the vicious storms, violent seas, and perilous shores of the world's most dangerous stretch of water.
Then nine courageous sailors accept a challenge to do what has never been done before: to race alone, in a small sailboat, around the world - nonstop. Only one will complete the race; seven will be forced to withdraw, and one will simply disappear.
NZ$50.00 + delivery.
INTREPID VOYAGERS.Edited By Tom Lochhaas, Paperback, 152mm x 228mm, 378 pages.
Eighteen chronicles from men and women who sailed to the ends of the earth and returned to tell about it.
They risked everything to break a record, win a race, prove a point, test themselves, or for reasons they can't explain. They include the first sailor to survive a Cape Horn rounding alone, the doctor who crossed the Atlantic in a tiny rubber raft without food or water, they twenty-four-year-old who became the fastest woman to sail around the world alone, and fifteen other singular adventurers whose stories have an enduring capacity to inspire and amaze.
NZ$33.00 + delivery.
SWEET WATER AND BITTER.By Sian Rees, Paperback, 129mm x 199mm, black & white drawings, 340 pages.
This book is the extraordinary sequel to Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807. The last legal British slave-ship left Africa that year, but other countries and illegal slavers continued to trade. When the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, British diplomats negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties and a 'Preventive Squadron' was formed to cruise the West African coast. In six decades, this small fleet liberated 150,000 Africans and lost 17,000 its own men in doing so. This is the tale of their exciting and arduous campaign.
It is a story of unforeseen consequences, and a swashbuckling naval adventure, full of sensational, first-hand accounts of life at sea; of the grim 'barracoons', the slave-brokers' luxurious compounds and the lonely garrisons dotting the coast. Combining flawless research with an intimated and dramatic narrative, this is a voyage that no one will forget.
NZ$33.00 + delivery.
THE CHILDREN FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE.By Mable Pollock, Pbk, 170mm x 240mm, 208 pages.
Mabel Pollock was born in the summer of 1927 on Cape Saunders Lighthouse station. Her childhood as the middle member of a family of seven children was a happen one. Every three years the Marine Dept shifted the family from one lighthouse to the next by the G.S.S. Matai.
On the restricted lighthouse stations her father became her hero. He could do anything. Veteran from the first world war he spun wool, knitted, built boats, windmills, crystal sets, wove baskets and gardened.
In 1969 this big, strong, resourceful man suffered a series of strokes to become a voiceless cripple. Mabel watched him shrivel and die.
Years later, haunted by the final image of her father, she decided to tell the world what a Great Guy her Dad was.
This book is the result. An animated portrait of a now extinct way of life, from Maria Van Diemen in the North, to Puysegar Point in the south.
It recalls a strangely knit, far flung community that strove to make our coastline safe for all mariners; through fine weather and foul, through peace and through war. Museum artifacts, photographs, books and tourist sites are all that remain.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
TO WORK TO WED TO WEEP TO WANDER.By Mable Pollock, Pbk, 170mm x 240mm, 390 pages.
Mabel Pollock was born in the summer of 1927 on Cape Saunders Lighthouse station, New Zealand. Her childhood to 16 years of age is recorded in her first book as Kate in "The Children from the Lighthouse". Her second book "To Work To Wed To Weep To Wander" follows her experiences and occupations from her nursing career to her departure from New Zealand in 1974.
Mabel returned to New Zealand from Europe via the "Hippy Trail" in 1976 to acquire nine grandchildren; lose her daughter; build a native New Zealand forest from a steep abandoned 7 and half acre rubbish dump; design and promote an alternative national New Zealand flag and to travel countries of the world from Iceland to Antarctica.
Her photographic record of the creation of Polly's park - the Mary Barrett forest 1993 to 2007 - illustrates Mabel's practical determination to accomplish every task she sets herself and to bring life and beauty to her dreams.
Devonport children and residents of all generations know her as "Polly".
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
BEN AINSLIE - CLOSE TO THE WIND.By Ben Ainslie, Hardback, 160mm x 240mm, 246 pages, colour photos.
Step behind the scenes and experience the exhilarating whirlwind life of 'sailing's superman'.
Ben has won successive golds in the last three Olympics, making him a British hero and our greatest Olympic sailor ever. In 2012 he plans to bid for a forth.
In Close to the Wind Ben reveals the truth behind his awesome achievement. A charming spokesperson off the water, he reveals just how ruthless he is on it. He admits to fierce rivalries, above all with Brazilian Robert Scheidt, who robbed a nineteen-year old Ben of gold in his first Olympics. From that day Scheidt has beeb Ben's nemesis and they have explosively raced head-to-head many times since.
Ben's twenty-year sailing career, which began on a dinghy in a remote Cornish bay, has a scope unmatched by other sports. In Olympic races he is alone, in his tiny boat, channelling aggression and plotting tactics. But Ben's recent forays into the America's Cup are a complete contrast. As a helmsman for the Cup - sailing's glamorous, lucrative Formula One-equivalent - Ben can only succeed by precision team-work.
From his proudest moment representign Team GB, to one tough decision that almost risked destroying his career, this is a unique insight into the man who cannot let himself be second best. It shows what really takes place in the white heat of competition and lifts the lid on this toughest of sports.
NZ$60.00 + delivery.
ENDLESS SEA.By Amyr Klink, Paperback, 150mm x 225mm, 262 pages. Monochrome photos.
Amyr Klink, whose sailing exploits have made him a hero in Brazil, tells of his daring singlehanded circumnavigation below the Artarctic Convergence. Surfing the waves in his custom-built 50-foot "aluminium red truck", Paratii, Klink enjoys the quiet confidence that comes from proper planning, common-sense technology, and a lifelong fascination with the history of Southern Ocean sailing.
A modern Moitessier, sailing before an Aerorig mast, Klink proves his seamanship handling tricky boat repairs while underway, navigating icebergs, negotiating gales and williwaws, and surfing gigantic waves.
NZ$55.00 + delivery.
TERROR ON THE SEAS.By Daniel Sekulich, Hardback, 147mm x 218mm, 308 pages.
PIRATES. To many, the word conjures up images of swashbucklers in the eighteenth century. The very idea that pirates might still ply the seas today seems preposterous and far-fetched. But pirates most definitely still exist. And as this book shows, their violent activities on the other side of the globe can have wide-reaching effects - whether on our economy or the war on terror.
Daniel Sukulich takes readers on an eye-opening voyage into the world of high-seas piracy, a multinational, multibillion-dollar enterprise controlled by organized crime syndicates and local warlords. Sekulich sails through some of the most dangerous waters on the planet to chronicle this threat to national and international security. He meets with victims of attacks, those fighting the perils, and even pirates themselves.
Terror on the Seas tells an explosive story of ocean security, one that's costing more than $25 billion a year to battle and that poses the risks of environmental disaster, economic chaos, and holy war.
NZ$52.00 + delivery.
THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN.By Janna Cawrse Esarey, Paperback, 138mm x 213mm, 312 pages.
Meet Janna and Graeme. After a decade-long tango (together, apart, together, apart), they are back in love - but the stress of nine-to-five is seriously hampering their happiness. So they quit their jobs, tie the knot, and untie the lines on a beat-up old sailboat for a most unusual honeymoon: a two-year voyage across the Pacific. But passage from first date to first mate is anything but smooth sailing. From the rugged Pacific Northwest coast to the blue lagoons of Polynesia to bustling Asian ports, Janna and Graeme find themselves at the mercy of poachers, under the spell of cross-dressers, and under the gun of a less-than-sober tattooist. And they encounter do-or-die moments that threaten their safety, their sanity and their marriage.
Join Janna and Graeme's 17,000-mile journey and their quest to resolve the uncertainties so many couples face: How do you know if you've really found the One? How do you balance duty to others while preserving space for yourself? And, when the waters get rough, do you jump ship, or do you learn to navigate the world...together?
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
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