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  • Rolling Home

    by William Morris Barnes ...
    Series series Seafarers' Voices
    Barnes was born in 1850 into a shipowning family in St Johns, Newfoundland, and first went to sea while still a schoolboy. His career seemed predestined, and by the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a Liverpool company, serving in their sailing ships working a triangular passage to St Johns, the Brazils and back to Liverpool. He tried to swallow the anchor when he married but running a grocery store ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Nutmeg of Consolation

    by Patrick O’Brian ...
    Series Book 14 - Aubrey-Maturin
    On foreign shores, and far from home, a friend can become a foe in a heartbeat.Shipwrecked on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies as the Napoleonic Wars rage on, circumstances look far from promising for Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew. And yet, having overcome the odds and contrived their escape, still further peril awaits in the fiercely tidal waters of the Salibu Passage and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Death On The Ice

    The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster Of 1914

    by Cassie Brown ...
    Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt seals in the hope of a few penniew in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in the long line of tragedies that were part of their harsh way of life.For two long, freezing days and nights a party of seal hunters--one hundred thirty-two men--were left ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • On a Making Tide

    by David Donachie ...
    Series series The Nelson Trilogy
    In March 1771, on a windy, rain-swept afternoon, twelve-year-old Horatio Nelson arrives at the Royal Navy dockyard at Chatham. Small for his age, he has traveled alone by coach from London after parting company with his father, the parson of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. The lad has come to join his first ship, the 64-gun Raisonnable, as a midshipman, launching what will become a legendary naval ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bounty trilogy

    by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall ...
    James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Nordhoff. Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 - April 10, 1947) was an English-born American novelist and traveler.Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant ... Read more

    $12.67 CAD

  • Astounding Sea Stories

    Fifteen Ripping Good Tales

    Edited by Tom McCarthy ...
    Stories that will entertain, inform, and inspire.Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, or search for the Northwest Passage with Franklin’s doomed crew, or watch their mates being beheaded by angry pirates like Daniel Collins. But it’s quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Here are stoic and hardy ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Last Grain Race

    by Eric Newby ...
    An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.In 1939, a young Eric Newby – later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent – set sail aboard Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still employed in the transportation of grain from Australia to Europe. Every year from 1921 to 1939, the vessels involved in the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Discovery of Slowness

    by Sten Nadolny ...
    Translated by Ralph Freedman ...
    An extraordinary literary journey of Sir John Franklin, a man dedicated to continually pushing boundaries and making history.German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reader follows Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Ice!

    by Tristan Jones ...
    The author of The Incredible Voyage sets out on a "simply tremendous" and death-defying adventure sailing through the Arctic Ocean ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pirate's Passage

    by William Gilkerson ...
    Nova Scotia, 1952. Not exactly the place you’d expect to run into pirates. But an old mariner, his boat driven ashore in a gale, brings with him enough stories about buccaneers and their lore to make it seem that he must have had firsthand experience of the pirate life. But how is that possible? Captain Charles Johnson’s uncanny knowledge of seamanship’s dark side fuels the imagination of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Seafaring Women

    Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives

    by David Cordingly ...
    For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard by officers or seamen. And Cordingly has unearthed stories of a number of young women who dressed ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Titanic Hero

    The Autobiography of Captain Rostron of the Carpathia

    by Sir Arthur H. Rostron ...
    The story of the Titanic in the words of the hero whose swift action saved the lives of 710 survivors. The Carpathia was on its regular voyage to New York City, when early on 15 April 1912 it received a distress signal from the White Star Line ocean liner Titanic, which had struck an iceberg and was sinking. Rostron was asleep when his wireless operator, Harold Cottam, by chance left his headset ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD