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Good Little Ship: Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the Goblin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In "Good Little Ship" Peter Willis analyses a classic of maritime literature – Arthur Ransome's "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea" – and tells... Læs mere
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Sailing with the Admiral: A conversation with the past (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book is a conversation with the past, conducted in a very old, engineless gaff cutter, armed with the Admiralty Pilot, a gallant crew, and a sense of the ridiculous.
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Forthright & Steadfast: The Wooden Fishing Boats of Richard Irvin & Sons (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gloria Wilson documents the Peterhead yard of Richard Irvin & Sons, and the wooden craft for which it became renowned. Some one hundred of her photographs accompany her account of the boats and the people who made up a distinctive and now disappearing maritime culture.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Viola: The Life and Times of a Hull Steam Trawler: The Life and Times of a Hull Steam Trawler (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The improbable, yet true, and highly readable story of a Hull steam trawler, her industry, and her people, from her launch in 1906, through fishing, wars, sealing, whaling and exploration, to her final resting place on the edge of the Antarctic.
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The Cruise of the Teddy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Erling’s Tambs's charming and modest account of how, with great fortitude, resourcefulness and good humour he and his wife reached New Zealand in their Colin Archer vessel, with... Læs mere
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Sheila in the Wind (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In his lone six-year voyage from England to New Zealand in the 1950s, in a 1908 yawl designed by Albert Strange, the author discovers both the world and himself.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The The Dolphin: The life of David Lewis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ben Lowings examines David Lewis's lifetime of adventure forensically yet sympathetically, to comprehend his determination. Lewis’s achievements garnered him... Læs mere
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Hillyard: The Man, His Boats, and Their Sailors (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
David Hillyard built affordable wooden yachts for the masses, from 1906 to the 1960s—about 800 of them, many of which survive. The company he founded survived for more than a century. This is the story of a unique and significant chapter in the story of British sailing.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Details of Dinghy Building (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Will Stirling describes and illustrates the many arcane tasks which can daunt the beginning boatbuilder. He has been building clinker dinghiesfor many years and has learned... Læs mere
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The Temptress Voyages: SIngle-handed Passage, Temptress Returns (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Edward Allcard's epic two crossings of the Atlantic in the mid-twentieth century in his thirty-four-foot, forty-year-old yawl Temptress
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
