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LIGHTHOUSES - The Race to Illuminate the World.By Toby Chance and Peter Williams. Hardback, 143mm x 223mm, 272 pages, full colour and black & white illustrations and prints.
The Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1851: James Chance, of the glass-making frim Chance Brothers, is nervously showcasing a new lens design that, unknown to him, will revolutionize lighthouse production, propel his family business into a position of world leadership, save countless lives and have far-reaching consequences for trade, empire and the map of the world.
This is where Lighthouses begins. The true-life story that follows is of one man and his family's unexpected role in an exciting race to perfect this technology, against European rivals and colleagues, as they strive to regain for Britain the leadership position she had lost to the French in the 1820s. With support from such illustrious personages as Sir David Brewster and Michael Faraday, Chance Brothers' lenses helped light shores around the globe - from the Clipper path in the Far east to the New World emigrant route.
This fascinating story places James Chance and the Chance Brothers firm against the backdrop of a stage on which lighthouse manufacture was transformed from a craft into a scientific, high precision industry. As a tool for globilization, and with immense strategic and economic value, lighthouses helped to stablish a network of communications that transformed the trade maps of countries and empires.
NZ$60.00 + delivery.
SO OTHERS MAY LIVE. Coast Guard's Rescue SwimmersBy Martha J. LaGuardia-Kotite. Paperback, 152mm x 230mm, 260 pages.
Fourteen true, amazing, and inspiring stories of some of the bravest men and women you'll ever meet.
So Others May Live is the untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon Coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories - some of the greatest maritime rescues attempted since the program was started in 1985. These feats, told through the eyes of the heroes, reveal an understanding of how and why the rescuer, with flight crew assistance, risks his or her own life to reach out to save a stranger. Covering diverse environments - oceans, hurricanes, oil rigs, caves, sinking vessels, floods, and even Niagara Falls - this is truly a can't-put-it-down collection
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THE YEAR OF THE BOAT.By Lawrence Cheek. Hardback, 130mm x 210mm, 280 pages.
Beauty, imperfection, and the art of doing it yourself.
Wooden sailboats inspire lust. The good ones exhibit beautiful lines, classic proportions, efficient simplicity, and timeless craftsmanship. Author Lawrence Cheek decided he had to have one. But to fully embrace the wooden-boat ethos, he had to build his own – even though he was at best a novice sailor and the master of no woodworking skills. The Year of the Boat is the story of this adventure, and bubbles with humour and philosophical wisdom.
NZ$50.00 + delivery.
MYTH, FACT, AND NAVIGATORS' SECRETS.By J. Gregory Dill. Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 209 pages, monochrome photographs.
The sails lie limp and listless. Now's the time to collect your rum ration, find a dry berth, and get snug with this book - an intriguing and witty compilation of true nautical tales fit for any sailing enthusiasts, from day sailor to ocean voyager, professional mariner to armchair navigator, or those who have only dreamed of running away to sea.
After culling little-known facts from the world's nautical heritage, author J. Gregory Dill has written an engaging series of marine stories - like the 1813 account of a short and bloody sea duel between the U.S. frigate Chesapeake and His Majesty's Ship Shannon, equally matched in firepower and their captains' tactical skills, but in the final analysis having absolutely no strategic significance in the war's outcome. Then there is the bizarre tale of Captain John Paul Jones's 1779 naval raid on a Scottish coastal estate to kidnap the local VIP, Lord Selkirk, in a bid to win release of American prisoners of war. When Selkirk was found to be away, Jones seized instead his intended victim's household silverware, including teapots and sugar bowls, after having politely declined Lady Selkirk's kind invitation to dinner.
The tragic and comic, the quirky and curious, the ironic and the blatantly absurd - all await discovery in this book, a highly readable and entertaining book that will easily find a place on every sailor's bookshelf.
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
A YACHT CALLED EREWHON.By Stuart Vaughan. paperback, 136mm x 210mm, 352 pages.
Imagine that a wealthy contemporary of Sir Thomas Lipton dreamed of winning the America's Cup and built a J-Class racing yacht in New Zealand using native kauri and pohutukawa, those iron-hearted timbers that last almost forever. What if the yacht never made it to Cowes but was lost off the Northland Coast, coming to rest in an unknown waterway? What if she was found , two generations later, by another man who carried her memory in his heart and dared to dream the same dream?
When an unlikely team of dreamers and dedicated craftspeople combine to restore the long-lost Erewhon, a lively tale of Kiwi ingenuity, imagination and craftsmanship unfolds. Across time and the wide oceans of the world, friendship and loyalty come together in a thrilling and heartwarming story of unstoppable optimism.
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I'VE BEEN AROUND.By Tania Aebi. Paperback, 150mm x 227mm, 213 pages.
In 1985, at age 18, Tania Aebi set out to sail around the world alone. She became instantly famous with Maiden Voyage, the best-selling book she wrote about the solo trip.
In over twenty years of cruising by herself and with family, and leading ten-day flotillas to charter destinations in a professional capacity, she has gathered many anecdotes, observations, opinions, cautionary tales and advice. Indeed, she has been around.
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SHIPPING OUT - A MERCHANT SAILOR'S TALE.By Gerry Evans. Paperback. 153mm x 225mm, 238 pages, monochrome photos.
I've danced the night away with handsome African women in Tombo Mary's, fallen in and out of love from Zanzibar to Yokohama, and seen the sun rise and set from Ghana to Nauru. I've brawled with crazy tanker crews in the madhouse at Curacao and been jailed in Chile. I've sailed with men you could trust your life with - and often did.
Growing up in the Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth, Gerry Evans discovered his love of the sea. He joined the British merchant marine in 1954, when 95,000 seamen plied their trade under the 'red duster'.
Shipping out is the rollicking memoir of Gerry's life and times. He tells of exciting and exotic destinations. Of riotous nights ashore on the West African coast, and killer gales in the North Atlantic. Of rogue captains. rapaciopus employers and rascally shipmates. Of fun, fear and a way of life long since passed.
But this is more than just a story about the world's great oceans and the men that made their living sailing them. It is a story of a boy growing to manhood, on a journey that will eventually find Gerry settling down in this distant land.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
THE PERFECT STORM.By Sebastian Junger. Paperback. 127mm x 196mm, 235 pages.
It was a 'perfect' storm - perfect, meteorologically, in that it could not be worse. It found its terrible heart 500 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, coming to fruition in 120-mile-an-hour winds and ten-storey waves. And into its path wandered the fishing boat Andrea Gail and her six-men crew.
To be an international bestseller for over four years a story must be an epic, told by a master storyteller: terrifying, sad, exhilarating and humbling, this is such a tale; an account of the awesome power of the sea and of the desperate human drama that unfoled in October 1991.
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TREKKA ROUND THE WORLD.By John Guzzwell. Paperback. 152mm x 227mm, 285 pages.
"This is a new edition of John Guzzwell's Trekka Round the World. Long out-of-print, this international classic is the story of John's circumnavigation on his 20-foot yawl Trekka. During his voyage John leaves Trekka to crew for the Smeatons aboard Tzu Hang, and off Cape Horn they survive a pitchpole. In a new epilogue Guzzwell recounts his experiences and sailing adventures since the book first appeared in the 1960s; included are previously unpublished photos and a foreword by America's renowned bluewater sailor-author Hal Roth."
"John Guzzwell updates his classic in this entirely new edition with previously unpublished anecdotes and photographs. Included are John's recent accomplishments in his Endangered Species, in which he competed in the 1998 Singlehanded TransPac Race."
NZ$52.00 + delivery.
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE OCEAN LOVER'S SOUL.By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Wyland. Softback, 140mm x 220mm, 294 pages, black and white illustrations.
The ocean is calling … All of us, at one time or another, find ourselves inexplicably drawn to the sea. For some, it’s a place for reflection or romance. For others, it’s the thrill of surf crashing against a sandy white beach or studying the kaleidoscope of life among a tropical coral reef. The power of the ocean to change our lives, to inspire us and to fascinate us is what the authors say led them to create this collection of stories from around the world that celebrates the magic of our ocean planet.
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
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