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| Author: | Tim Ecott |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 106856 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
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 'treasures...
| Author: | Ellen MacArthur |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 142972 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
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 moment...
| Publisher: | National Maritime Museum |
| Catalogue number: | 160271 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock |
To mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of the National Maritime Museum, publishing arm NMM Publishing has brought together a special collection of fictional short stories inspired by a great literary...
| Author: | Ellen MacArthur |
| Publisher: | Michael Joseph |
| Catalogue number: | 116226 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
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: | James Taylor |
| Publisher: | Conway Maritime Press |
| Catalogue number: | 170371 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 3 - 4 weeks |
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...
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