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  • Voyages of a Simple Sailor

    by Roger D. Taylor ...
    Aged just 23, and already set on a life of adventure, Roger Taylor signed up as an able seaman on the square-rigger Endeavour II, bound from Australia to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It was the realisation of a boyhood dream. The dream was cruelly shattered when the ship was caught in a fierce tropical storm off the coast of northern New Zealand. For several days, the young crew fought in ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Untold Voyage

    by Roger D. Taylor ...
    “One of the best sailing writers on this planet.” Keiran Flatt, Editor, Yachting Monthly‘There was, however, one voyage… and what happened on that voyage was so far beyond the compass of what I thought possible that I have never, until this moment, said or written a single word about it.’Solo sailor Roger D. Taylor has written many books about his voyages to the Arctic. Some years ago, he made a ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Crucifixion - A Short Story: From the Perspective of the Mighty Archangel Michael

    by Roger D Taylor ...
    With the demons swarming and the vast armies of heaven's angels standing by, but not allowed to intervene, the life slowlydrains from the Lord's body. Satan looks on, gloating, manipulating. His twisted satisfaction is suddenly interrupted however, by the great warrior Archangel Michael, flaming sword at Satan's neck.The Father gives the command and Earth stands still, literally, as the mighty ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travels Through a Window

    by Roger D. Taylor ...
    ‘I have travelled more than three hundred miles since finishing my bowl of porridge. I sit at my window, attentive to the journey.’In his sixth book, singlehanded sailor Roger Taylor stays ashore and turns his gaze towards the rugged Scottish landscape and rich wildlife visible through his loch-side window. Written as a kind of cosmic travelogue, the book reconciles the bleakness and beauty of the ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Adventures of Laforest - Dombourg: Volume One

    by Eric Gautier ...
    Translated by Roger D. Taylor ...
    In his magisterial two-volume work, Eric Gautier brings to life, with unerring historical precision, the constant struggle for maritime supremacy between the French and English during the second half of the eighteenth century. In so doing, he fuses the breadth of Dumas with the accuracy of O’Brian and the charm of Forester, creating his own distinct and trustworthy voice.His hero, a young French ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing

    by Roger D. Taylor ...
    Roger Taylor follows on from his highly praised Voyages of a Simple Sailor, taking us on three more extraordinary voyages aboard his junk-rigged Corribee Mingming. This simple, rugged 21’ yacht, developed and honed for effortless single-handed ocean sailing, goes where bigger and more sophisticated craft fear to tread. Iceland, Rockall, the Faroes, Jan Mayen, the Greenland ice, with an interlude ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Mingming II & the Impossible Voyage

    by Roger D. Taylor ...
    Far to the north of Russia, across the cold waters of the Barents Sea, lies the desolate archipelago known as Franz Josef Land.Hidden away still further to the north and west of those islands is one of the most inaccessible and least known seas on this planet – the Queen Victoria Sea. In his fifth book of voyages, Roger Taylor describes his successful attempt to sail into those lonely and usually ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Mostly Mischief

    Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level

    by H.W. Tilman, Philip Temple ...
    Series Book 8 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one's last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.'Mostly Mischief's ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman covering almost 25,000 miles in both Arctic and Antarctic... ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mingming II & the Islands of the Ice

    by Roger D. Taylor ...
    In his fourth book, singlehanded sailor Roger D. Taylor takes us once more to the remote corners of the Arctic. Sailing his newly-created yacht Mingming II, Roger ventures into the Baring Sea and explores the islands of north-eastern Svalbard. During the 55-day voyage to waters seldom sailed in, he encounters everything from walruses to inquisitive humpback whales to massive ice cliffs, and nearly ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Adventures of Laforest - Dombourg: Volume Two

    by Eric Gautier ...
    Translated by Roger D. Taylor ...
    In his magisterial two-volume work, Eric Gautier brings to life, with unerring historical precision, the constant struggle for maritime supremacy between the French and English during the second half of the eighteenth century. In so doing, he fuses the breadth of Dumas with the accuracy of O’Brian and the charm of Forester, creating his own distinct and trustworthy voice.His hero, a young French ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Mingming & the Tonic of Wildness

    by Roger D. Taylor ...
    In his third book singlehanded sailor Roger D. Taylor ventures to even more remote seas aboard his tiny junk-rigged yacht Mingming. The first voyage, across the North Atlantic to Baffin Island, is curtailed when Taylor is injured in a storm in the Davis Strait. Unwilling to sail on into the ice with a broken rib, he turns round and re-crosses the Atlantic to Plymouth, completing a non-stop voyage ... Read more

    Was $8.69 USD Now $7.19 USD

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  • Snow on the Equator

    Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 1 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He ... Read more

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