Home waters
£10.99A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain – and decided the course of its history – for thousands of years.
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Just add water
£18.99Here is an inspiring guide to activities and adventures to re-energise and boost your mood, by our rivers, lakes, and canals. While Britain’s rivers, lakes and canals have long been co-opted by fitness enthusiasts for the physical benefits they can bring, it’s only relatively recently that we’ve given much thought to their impact on our mental state too. ‘Blue health’ – the idea that having access to an area of water can benefit a person’s whole wellbeing – is gaining traction. These waterside places are fundamental to the kind of stuff people now realise they need in their lives – exercise, solace, natural beauty and new places to socialise – with so many of them on our doorstep. ‘Just Add Water’ is your guide to the many mood-boosting and wellbeing activities, adventures and escapes that our inland waterways have to offer.
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Canals of Britain
£30.00This is a comprehensive survey of the entire canal network of the British Isles. Stuart Fisher looks at every aspect of the canals: their construction, rich history, stunning scenery, heritage, incredible engineering, impressive architecture and even their associated folklore, wildlife and art.
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Olympic Titanic Britannic
£25.00The Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons. The Olympic Class liners were conceived as the largest, grandest ships ever to set sail. Of the three ships built, the first only lost the record for being the largest because she was beaten by the second, and they were both beaten by the third. The class was meant to secure the White Star Line’s reputation as the greatest shipping company on earth. Instead, with the loss of both the Titanic and the Britannic in their first year of service, it guaranteed White Star’s infamy. This book tells the extraordinary story of these three extraordinary ships from the bottom up, starting with their conception and construction (and later their modification) and following their very different careers.
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The Sailor’s Sin Bin
£10.99Compiles the best of the short real-life confessions from sailors from Yachting Monthly’s Confessions feature, many of them illustrated by original cartoons. These cautionary tales are arranged into themed chapters, for the amusement and edification of readers. Worse things happen at sea, so the saying goes. This book relates the embarrassing blunders and shameful shenanigans of real sailors to whom the worst did happen. Even in a world of satellite navigation and social media, shipwrecks, collisions, getting stuck in the toilet and cases of mistaken identity can and do happen.
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RMS Queen Mary
£9.99Even before her launch, RMS Queen Mary earned a special place in history. But how fast was Queen Mary? Is it true the Queen Mary is haunted? Is the Queen Mary 2 anything like the original? Addressing these questions and more, this book provides the essential information about this 1930s superliner.
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Tales from the Tillerman
£12.99‘Tales from the Tillerman’ is both Steve Haywood’s tribute to Britain’s canals, rivers and countryside and a celebration of Britishness in all its eccentric glory. Unlike Steve’s previous titles, which have each focussed on one particular journey that Steve has taken, this book is casting the net wider and drawing from his full fifty years of experience, recounting the many hair-raising escapades he’s had up and down the country and reflecting on how the country and the cruising landscape has changed in those fifty years.
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Salt in the Blood
£10.99Patrick Dixon spent years working as a doctor at University College Hospital, while his wife Sheila was a magistrate – high-pressure careers that demanded long hours away from their home, family and passion for sailing. It is a frustrating story many occasional sailors can relate to, but unlike most, Patrick and Sheila realised early enough that they could only bend so far before something snapped, they could only take on so much before they drowned. This is their story of how they made changes that they knows other sailors could make too, regardless of where they are at the moment – how they changed their priorities but managed to sustain a new career that fitted in around life rather than the other way round.
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Over The Top
£10.99‘Over the Top’ is the story of Adrian Flanagan’s quest to become the first yachtsman to circumnavigate the globe via the two Polar regions, alone and without stopping. It was a daunting challenge but unquestionably the last great single-handed sailing prize to remain unclaimed.
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Tom Diapers Logbook
£16.99This is the memoir of a remarkable man and a rare opportunity to read first-hand about the drama, conflict, and fascinating details that made up the life of a for-hire racing skipper during the glory days of racing.