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When a loose cannon flogs a dead horse there's the devil to pay
by Olivia A. Isil
- Publisher: International Marine
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Voyages of Delusion
by Glyn Williams
In Voyages of Delusion in the Age of Reason, Williams charts the 18th-century’s perilous and often fatal attempts to discover a passage through the Arctic to the Pacific.

Williams’s book is set in...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick tells the story of the sinking of the whale ship Essex by an enraged sperm whale and also describes in detail what happened to the twenty crew members who survived. Having e...
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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Neutral Buoyancy
by Tim Ecott
A mixture of personal experience and scientific history, tracing underwater activities from the days of diving helmets to the aqualung and beyond. This entertaining book covers diving for...
- Publisher: Penguin
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Race Against Time
by Ellen MacArthur
Just after 10.00 on the night of February 7th 2004, Ellen MacArthur crossed an imaginary line in the sea off Brittany to become the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world.

Before that...
- Publisher: Penguin
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Titanic
by John Wilson Foster
An anthology that draws from eight decades of literature, newspaper articles, essays, poems, letters, songs, and trial transcripts all relating to the Titanic. Contributors include: Joseph Conrad, H....
- Publisher: Penguin
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The Oxford Book of the Sea

A rich anthology that draws together writings from as far back as the 1500s and more modern accounts of the Sea from Joseph Conrad, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Tom Hopkinson, Herman Melville: T...
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Passage to Juneau
by Jonathan Raban
The Inside Passage to Alaska, with its outer fringes and entailments, is a very complicated sea-route. Parts of it are open ocean, parts of it no wider than a modest river, and it has been in...
- Publisher: Picador
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Living Every Second
by Tracy Edwards
Tracy Edwards is a true heroine of our time. Against unimaginable odds she captained the first all-woman crew in the longest, toughest yacht race in the word. Her boat Maiden broke British records i...
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Attention all Shipping
by Charlie Connelly
In Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly looks at the Shipping Forecast, which, regularly broadcast on BBC radio, is for many a familiar and reassuring element of the British cultural landscape....
- Publisher: Abacus