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  • Paddlewheelers of Western Canada and the USA

    Short histories of the 2,200 sternwheelers and sidewheelers that have existed in western North America - operating in waters flowing to the Pacific Ocean. Each vessel is described and important facts about each one are included. No other book includes such a complete survey of these vessels.Also included are images of vessels which mostly have never previously been published. ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Shipwreck! A Chronicle of Marine Accidents & Disasters in British Columbia

    The waters of British Columbia are dangerous - and have claimed thousands of vessels and thousands of lives over the last 250 years. This is a collection of 1900 of the most significant of those shipwrecks and marine disasters. Each one is documented with detailed accounts in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access book that will please the casual reader as well as the most dedicated nautical historian. ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Cilin Ii: a Solo Sailing Odyssey

    The Closest Point to Heaven

    In 1986, seventy-one-year-old Edgar Whitcomb faced a crossroads in his life; he needed a new direction. Th at venture became an epic journey, as this retired Indiana governor embarked on what would be a solo, 30,000-mile, six-year sailing trip. With virtually no previous sailing experience, he and his thirty-foot sailboat, the CILIN II, traveled around the world.In this travel memoir, a chronicle ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Sailing In Newfoundland and to the Azores

    de Neil Bose ...
    This is a book of days and moments spent sailing on the east coast of Newfoundland and over the Atlantic to the Azores. Newfoundland is a beautiful cruising ground, one of the best in the world for a short period of the year in July and August, perhaps from late June. Optimistically and romantically, the Bay of Exploits has been called the Caribbean of the north. Many cruising days in summer start ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes

    de Ed Butts ...
    In 1679, a French ship called the Griffon left Green Bay on Lake Michigan, bound for Niagara with a cargo of furs. Neither the Griffon nor the five-man crew was ever seen again. Though the Griffon’s fate remains a mystery, its disappearance was probably the result of the first shipwreck on a Great Lake.Since then, more than six thousand vessels, large and small, have met tragic ends on the Great ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse

    Like other children of the 1930s, I read about the adventures of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who worked among fishermen in a very cold, icy place way up north called Newfoundland and Labrador . . . It was many years later, during my student-nursing days at Columbia-Presbyterian, that I really learned what the Grenfell Mission was all about. I was intrigued at the thought of, someday, using my nursing ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms

    de Dan Soucoup ...
    A fascinating exploration of the most dramatic storms along Canada's Atlantic coast, from 1745's Grand Armada Tragedy to the 2017 Ice Storm.Over the centuries, Canada's Atlantic coast has been battered by hurricanes and winter blizzards, struck by tornadoes, devastated by floods, and even hit by terrifying tsunamis. Now Dan Soucoup, a historian of Canada's Maritime Provinces, explores the region's ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Baychimo: Arctic Ghost Ship

    Arctic Ghost Ship

    No vessel that sailed the Arctic seas has raised so much speculation or triggered imaginations as has the legendary Hudson's Bay Company ship Baychimo.In the 1920s, Baychimo set up trading posts in eastern Canada, sailed on fur-trading expeditions to Siberia during the turbulent years of the Russian civil war and made dangerous annual voyages around Alaska to Canada's western Arctic coast, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die

    Sailing Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations

    Series series Fifty Places
    Championship racers and professional adventurers disclose their favorite destinations in an inspiring volume of stories, travel tips, and photos.Featuring some of the best-known men and women in the sport—Tom Whidden and Gary Jobson (members of the winning 1987 America's Cup crew), Jeff Johnstone (of J-Boats), award-winning sailing writer Lin Pardey, and many others—this is a unique full-color ... Leer más

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  • An Incredible Journey: The Idlewild Expedition

    de Ben Gray ...
    Hillbilly landlubber Ben Gray and his sons launched a 55 hp boat near their ranch in Alberta. 2,000 miles with portages and groundings to the Arctic Ocean. Then west past Alaska to the Bering St and turned back North and East through the ice choked NW Passage to circumnavigate the world in 2005. From hurricanes to pirates to being arrested to meeting lovely people, it was An Incredible Journey. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Shipwrecks Off the East Coast

    Harrowing Tales of Rescue and Disaster

    de Carmel Vivier ...
    Shipwrecks Off the East Coast tells the stories of nine ill-fated vessels as they navigated the often treacherous waters of the Atlantic region. Among them: the wreck of the SS Atlantic, only miles from safety in Halifax, where 562 people perished, including all women and children aboard but one solitary boy; the dramatic sinking of the SS Caribou, destroyed by a German U-boat's torpedo off the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • RMS Segwun

    Queen of Muskoka

    One hundred and twenty-five years of steamboating in Muskoka come alive with the anniversary celebration of the RMS Segwun.The Royal Mail Ship Segwun is the oldest operating steamship in North America, a Muskoka icon, and one of Ontario’s best-known tourist attractions. Built as a paddlewheeler in 1887, the RMS Segwun saw her initial career suspended in the 1950s when the ship ceased operations. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus