How To Catch A Star Sea Shanties
£9.99A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
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The White Ship
£10.99THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn’t get any better than this’ BILL BRYSON
‘A brilliant read ? Game of Thrones but in the real world’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ
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Madhouse At the End of the Earth
£20.00The Belgica set sail from Europe on a sunny day in August 1897, intent upon becoming the first scientific expedition ever to reach the South Pole. But after setbacks slowed its progress, ice closed in and ensnared the ship. Temperatures plummeted, winds howled, perpetual darkness fell. The crew were to make history for a different reason: they were to be the first adventurers to face the brutal Antarctic winter, completely cut off from the world. What began as an audacious scientific mission morphed into an epic struggle for survival. As the men battled blizzards, hunger, depression, rats and scurvy, some became inconsolable, some mad, while others were consumed by infections that turned them into living corpses. It was down to the strongest characters to step up: namely the notorious surgeon Dr Frederik Cook and the first mate, a young Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen.
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Operation Pedestal
£25.00The Sunday Times bestseller
‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL
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Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
£10.99Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more utilitarian than that. Today we still depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland which form a ring of 19 towers built between 1811-1905, so-called because they were constructed on desolate rock formations in the middle of the sea, and made of granite to withstand the power of its waves. ‘Seashaken Houses’ is a lyrical exploration of these singular towers, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world.
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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.