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  • Sailing Pickle round Great Britain

    with family, friends and bees in my bonnet

    by Charles Warlow ...
    A circumnavigation of Great Britain with one wife, five children, and twenty-two friends as crew.In 2012, retired NHS doctor and university professor Charles Warlow recruited his nearest, dearest, and most adventuresome of friends to join him on his sailing boat Pickle for a voyage around Great Britain. Setting off anti-clockwise from Ardfern in Argyll, Scotland, the skipper and his ever-changing ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • A Gigantic Whinge on the Celtic Fringe

    by Martin Edge ...
    "A Gigantic Whinge on the Celtic Fringe" is the story of a circumnavigation of Ireland aboard my 27ft yacht in 2011.From the Firth of Forth I went through the Caledonian Canal and round Ireland anti-clockwise, which many people consider to be the 'wrong way round'. Most, but by no means all of the journey, was sailed solo.On the way I skirted a lot of the bits of what is sometimes called the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Overboard - The Stories Cruise Lines Don't Want Told

    by Gwyn Topham ...
    A cruise was once the trip of a lifetime: a byword for refinement, luxury, romance, the millionaire lifestyle but no longer.Boats are bigger and brasher, and every year more and more people of all ages and walks of life are clambering aboard to join the party. But are they safe? Out at sea, there are no police. Many cruise ships fly flags of convenience, sailing in murky legal waters.Reports of ... Read more

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  • Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse

    by Rosalie M. Lombard ...
    Like other children of the 1930s, I read about the adventures of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who worked among fishermen in a very cold, icy place way up north called Newfoundland and Labrador . . . It was many years later, during my student-nursing days at Columbia-Presbyterian, that I really learned what the Grenfell Mission was all about. I was intrigued at the thought of, someday, using my nursing ... Read more

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  • Skagerrak and Back

    by Martin Edge ...
    "Skagerrak and Back" is the story of my North Sea circuit aboard my 27ft yacht.In 2007 I bit the bullet and decided to head for foreign climes. We crossed the North Sea from the Firth of Forth to Norway. We skirted the coast southwards to Sweden, through the Skagerrak past Denmark and into Germany. We travelled through the German and Dutch canals and back home through the uninviting waters of the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Race Too Far

    by Chris Eakin ...
    In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race - an incredible test of endurance never before attempted - a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop, going into port for repairs or supplies would mean disqualification.This remarkable challenge inspired the daring to enter - with or without sailing experience. A Race Too Far is the story of how the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Estuary

    Out from London to the Sea

    by Rachel Lichtenstein ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017An immersive, intimate journey into the world of the Thames Estuary and the people who spend their lives thereThe Thames Estuary is one of the world's great deltas, providing passage in and out of London for millennia. It is silted up with the memories and artefacts of past voyages. It is the habitat for an astonishing range of wildlife. And for the people ... Read more

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  • Come From Away

    Nurses Who Immigrated to Newfoundland and Labrador

    by Jeanette Walsh ...
    The third volume in the best-selling nursing history series. ... Read more

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  • Missing the Boat

    Chasing a Childhood Sailing Dream

    by Michael Hutchinson ...
    The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure.Yacht racing. A world of privilege and money. Beautiful women, bronzed men, and Simon le Bon explaining that he used to be in a band.It's not like that for everyone. Somewhere much, much further down the ladder it all looks very different. As a teenager, Michael Hutchinson raced tiny plywood dinghies on Belfast Lough, amid shoals of sewage ... Read more

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  • One Summer's Grace

    by Libby Purves ...
    In the summer of 1988, Libby Purves set sail with her family on a voyage round the entire coastline of Britain, from the soft, sandy South-East, to the wilder shores of Orkney. They travelled in the wake of their literary-nautical forebears aboard their m ... Read more

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  • Auld Hands: The Story of the Men Who Made Belfast Shipyards Great

    by Tom Thompson ...
    The story of shipbuilding in Belfast is known throughout the world: the great ships, including Titanic, HMS Belfast and SS Canberra; the towering cranes; its contribution to making Belfast a great industrial city. Less well known, but just as fascinating and illuminating, is the remarkable story of the Islandmen – the men who worked in the shipyards and built the world-renowned vessels.Author Tom ... Read more

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