Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Maritime Travel Writing’ - 36 matches found

Attention all Shipping

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...

Far Tortuga

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...

In the Heart of the Sea

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

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...

Longitude

The true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time.

Passage to Juneau

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...

Sea of Glory

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

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...

The Crossing

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...

The Last Grain Race

At the age of eighteen, Eric Newby signed on as an apprentice on the four-masted sailing ship Moshulu. This was to be her last voyage in the Australian grain trade and the first of Newby's journeys...

To The Baltic With Bob

In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them...

Trawler

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...

Close to the Wind

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...

Dark Wind

Dark Wind is the true story of Gordon Chaplin and his partner Susan Aitkinson. Both coming from broken first marriages, they rediscover passion and share a desire for adventure. But what started as...

Fatal Storm

The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is one of the world's major sporting events. In 1998, it became one of the world's major sporting disasters. This is a vivid account of the tragedy as it gradually unfolded...

Living Every Second

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 in...

Neutral Buoyancy

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...

Race Against Time

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...

Sea Stories

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...

Shipwreck

The tale of Padre Diego Rivadeneira, who while attempting to travel from Peru to Spain in 1654 was shipwrecked twice and then on his third attempt to make the journey his ship was attacked and sunk...