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Imray UK small-format charts: 2000 series: Suffolk & Essex Coasts
Imray’s 2000-series small format UK charts are comprehensive and easy-to-use sailing charts for popular British waters. Published as small (A2) sheets on rip-proof, waterproof paper, they are ideal for use on small tables or in cockpits.
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The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle by James Taylor brings together, for the first time in a single volume, the circumstances that set the Beagle voyage in motion and the characters who circumnavigated the world together.
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The Nick Ward Interview - 1979 Fastnet Race Survivor
Nick Ward was left for dead in the middle of the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing. The Fastnet Race of 1979 began in perfect weather conditions but, within 48 hours of the most beautiful sunset Ward had ever seen, it turned into a horrifying storm.
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Croatia: Eastern Adriatic Coast, Islands and Hinterland Atlas
| Publisher: | Geodetski Zavod Slovenije (Slovenia Survey) |
| Catalogue number: | 119339 |
| Scale: | 1:100,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Eastern coast of the Adriatic and its hinterland, from the Gulf of Trieste to the Montenegro/Albania border, in an A4, spiral-bound, paperback atlas, with nautical information, street plans and English...
| Author: | Charlie Connelly |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 131384 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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. Its...
| Author: | Peter Matthiessen |
| Publisher: | Harvill Press |
| Catalogue number: | 72973 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Fantastic story of pirates, fishermen and sailors written in a style which forces you to read it in creole.
"The stuff of which great books are made. Far Tortuga is about the sea and sailors and change...
| Author: | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 96886 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
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 escaped...
Left for Dead - The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race
| Author: | Nick Ward |
| Publisher: | A & C Black |
| Catalogue number: | 165752 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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: | Dava Sobel |
| Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
| Catalogue number: | 136456 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time.
| Author: | Jonathan Raban |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 92572 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
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 continuous...
| Author: | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 128314 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
A fascinating account of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes's 19th Century exploration of vast tracts of the Pacific Ocean, including the new southern continent of Antarctica.
During the voyage they surveyed...
Shipwrecked on the Top of the World
| Author: | David Roberts |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Co |
| Catalogue number: | 130634 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
In 1743 fourteen Walrus hunters from Russia were stranded on the icepack around Svalbard after a storm destroyed their ship. Marooned with minimal provisions but with their incredible endurance and...
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Catalogue number: | 155999 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
When James Cracknell and Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race, they thought they knew what awaited them: nearly three thousand miles of empty ocean, stormy weather and colossal physical...
| Author: | Redmond O'Hanlon |
| Publisher: | Hamish Hamilton |
| Catalogue number: | 124137 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
| Publisher: | Memory-Map |
| Catalogue number: | 109573 |
| Scale: | various |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 1 week |
An easy to use electronic charting and passage planning system on full colour charts that look exactly the same as the paper originals.
| Publisher: | Memory-Map |
| Catalogue number: | 109574 |
| Scale: | various |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 1 week |
An easy to use electronic charting and passage planning system on full colour charts that look exactly the same as the paper originals.
| Publisher: | Dorling Kindersley |
| Catalogue number: | 135881 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Produced in association with the National Maritime Museum and featuring previously unseen images, this is the ultimate guide to every aspect of seafaring.
It tracks the history of navigation from the...
A New Chart of the English Channel
| Publisher: | UK Hydrographic Office |
| Catalogue number: | 92898 |
| Scale: | not available |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This small chart measures 63x36cms and covers the English Channel as it was in the 18th century. It not only shows depths, but also details coastal cross sections. Responsible for compiling most of...
| Author: | Delwyn McPhun |
| Publisher: | Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson |
| Catalogue number: | 74035 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
This is a guide to the coasts of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar and the Comoros for sailors and divers. It includes sailing directions for key ports (including harbour charts), passage planning...
| Author: | Graham Hutt |
| Publisher: | Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson |
| Catalogue number: | 134375 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
One of the well-known series of Imray Pilots, designed specially for the leisure sailing market. These books contain detailed charts of the main harbours and anchorages, and in some cases photos of...
Biscay North: Ouessant to La Gironde
| Publisher: | Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson |
| Catalogue number: | 130486 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
One of the well-known series of Imray Pilots, designed specially for the leisure sailing market. These books contain detailed charts of the main harbours and anchorages, and in some cases photos of...
| Author: | Andrew O'Grady |
| Publisher: | Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson |
| Catalogue number: | 121553 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Detailed charts of all the main harbours and anchorages are accompanied by short text entries giving latitude and longitude and highlighting any dangers. For the larger ports and harbours there is information...
| Author: | Pete Goss |
| Publisher: | Hodder Headline |
| Catalogue number: | 80716 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 2 weeks |
This is the true story of a brave man who turned into the teeth of a hurricane to save the life of a fellow competitor in a single-handed round-the-world yacht race. Pete Goss scuppered his own chances...
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The Nick Ward Interview - 1979 Fastnet Race survivor
Nick Ward was left for dead in the middle of the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing. The Fastnet Race of 1979 began in perfect weather conditions but, within 48 hours of the most beautiful sunset Ward had ever seen, it turned into a horrifying storm. By the time it was over, 15 sailors had lost their lives.
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