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  • Haunted Lighthouses

    Phantom Keepers, Ghostly Shipwrecks, and Sinister Calls from the Deep

    by Ray Jones ...
    Series series Haunted
    Lighthouses and ghosts are two popular passions. Melded together by master storyteller and lighthouse expert Ray Jones, these tales of spirited lights are guaranteed to grab the attention of all readers. As an added bonus, practical information is given for those who wish to visit the featured lighthouses for themselves . . . if they dare. ... Read more

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  • Haunted Lighthouses

    Phantom Keepers, Ghostly Shipwrecks, and Sinister Calls From the Deep

    by Ray Jones ...
    Series series Haunted
    Lighthouses and ghosts are two popular passions. Melded together by master storyteller and lighthouse expert Ray Jones, these tales of spirited lights are guaranteed to grab the attention of all readers. As an added bonus, practical information is given for those who wish to visit the featured lighthouses for themselves . . . if they dare. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    A Couple Tells Their Story of Eight Years Living and Traveling Aboard Their Boat

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    This is the story of one couples adventures living and traveling aboard their 47-foot cruiser, "Farfetched". It starts with their getting hooked on boating and traveling by water, many years earlier. It tells how they made their decision to really make this move and of their search for the right boat.In 1997 they sold their home and all of their possessions to became full time live aboard boaters. ... Read more

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  • Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes

    by Ed Butts ...
    In 1679, a French ship called the Griffon left Green Bay on Lake Michigan, bound for Niagara with a cargo of furs. Neither the Griffon nor the five-man crew was ever seen again. Though the Griffon’s fate remains a mystery, its disappearance was probably the result of the first shipwreck on a Great Lake.Since then, more than six thousand vessels, large and small, have met tragic ends on the Great ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Heart of the Sea (Young Readers Edition)

    The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

    The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning In the Heart of the Sea, now a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, adapted by the author for young readers.On November 20, 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. Within minutes, the twenty-one-man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three ... Read more

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  • Sea Wins

    Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy

    by Eric Allaby ...
    We are all drawn to the sea. Those who call the shores of Fundy home take the twice-daily flooding and ebbing of massive tides as a matter of daily routine. But to visiting mariners, the Bay of Fundy posed particular challenges for their sea-borne commerce. Shipwrecks became part of the lore of Fundy life. They were usually enormously dramatic events, too often sadly tragic, occasionally even ... Read more

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  • Brilliant Beacons

    A History of the American Lighthouse

    "What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical subject." —Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four VoyagesIn this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history of America itself" ... Read more

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  • Shipwrecks of Lake Erie

    Tragedy in the Quadrangle

    by David Frew ...
    A history of Lake Erie's most mysterious and notorious wrecks and disappearances.The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden waves and wildly shifting sandbars. The steamer Atlantic succumbed to these conditions when, in 1852, a late-night collision brought sixty-eight of its weary immigrant ... Read more

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  • The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

    The History of the Shipwreck That Inspired Moby Dick

    In 1820, a sperm whale attacked and sunk the Whaleship Essex. 2000 miles off the coast of South America, the crew knew it would be a true feat to survive and make it to shore--any shore.It’s story became legendary; Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about it; Edgar Allen Poe incorporated details of it in his only novel; and, most notoriously of them all, it served as the inspiration for Herman Melville’s ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands

    Olympia to Port Angeles

    "Simply put, every local boater should have a dog-eared, well-thumbed copy [of this guide] as a permanent feature in the nautical library."—48° NorthA Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands has earned an outstanding reputation for the accuracy of its piloting instructions, the clarity of its writing, and the high quality of its information. This second edition includes color photos ... Read more

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  • Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast

    Your Guide to the Lighthouses of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia

    Interest in the history and preservation of lighthouses has never been stronger. Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast details the history of lighthouses and much more, and shows why these structures continue to fascinate us. Discover what life for lighthouse keepers was really like. Learn about the history of U.S. colonial lighthouses and the role lighthouses have played in several wars. Meet the ... Read more

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  • Outer Banks Shipwrecks

    Graveyard of the Atlantic

    Series series Images of America
    Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Weather, geography, war, piracy, and human error have all contributed to this dense shipwreck zone. Today, the region that stretches from the Currituck Outer Banks south to Bogue Banks is referred to as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." From the 1585 grounding of the English ship ... Read more

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