Seafaring life
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Nightmare on the Scottie: The Maiden Voyage of a Doomed King Crabber
$18.95 Read moreAlthough Mobile, Alabama’s Bender Shipyard built shrimp boats and oil rig supply vessels for the Gulf of Mexico, until they finished the Scottie in December 1969, they had never constructed a vessel d
- Author: Orsini, Stephen D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1638640009
- Language: English
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Hope at Sea: An Adventure Story
$19.99 Add to cartHope doesn’t only want to listen to her father’s stories about his voyages at sea, she wants to be part of those stories.
And so, unbeknownst to her parents, she stows away on her father’s 19th-centur- Author: Miyares, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: November 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 1984892835
- Language: English
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Cape Horn: The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without Port of Call
$16.50 Add to cartThis is the story of Bernard and Fran?ise Moitessier’s honeymoon voyage aboard Joshua, sailing from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back by way of Cape Horn, the “logical route,” because it w… [more below]
- Author: Moitessier, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574091549
- Language: English
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Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel (Deluxe, Expanded)
$24.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it T… [more below]
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 030682180X
- Language: English
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana’s account of his passage around Cape Horn to
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dana, Richard Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 17, 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390081
- Language: English
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Reading the Glass: A Captain’s View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
$32.00 Add to cartA sea captain’s beautifully written tour of our planet, our oceans, and our ever-changing atmosphere
“An extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville.”–Mark Vanhoenacker – “Immensely rewarding and ent- Author: Rappaport, Elliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593185056
- Language: English
