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| Author: | Charlie Connelly |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 131384 |
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The Shipping Forecast, regularly broadcast on BBC radio, is for many a familiar and reassuring element of the British cultural landscape. Its content could spell the difference between life and death...
Left for Dead - The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race
| Author: | Nick Ward |
| Publisher: | A & C Black |
| Catalogue number: | 165752 |
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This is the true story of Nick Ward’s harrowing time in the tragic Fastnet Race of 1979. The yachting race runs from the Isle of Wight, around Lands End and north-west to Ireland most south-westerly...
| Author: | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| Publisher: | Hamish Hamilton |
| Catalogue number: | 124137 |
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Redmond O'Hanlon helps decimate the oceans by joining a deep-sea trawler crew on one of their gut-wrenching, roller-coaster forays into the north atlantic. A rarely documented way of life and its privations...
| Author: | Ellen MacArthur |
| Publisher: | Michael Joseph |
| Catalogue number: | 116226 |
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Inspired by a sailing trip with her aunt on the East Coast when she was four, Ellen MacArthur saved her school dinner money for eight years to buy her first boat, an eight-foot dinghy called Thr'penny...
| Author: | Roger Deakin |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 89049 |
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“Waterlog” was inspired by John Cheever’s classic short story “The Swimmer”; Roger Deakin set out from his moat in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles.
The result of his journey is a maverick...
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