Author: Brian AndersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781891369704
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first anthology for small-boat enthusiasts -- fiction and essays on sailboats, canoes, rowboats, and kayaks.
Small Boats on Green Waters
Author: Brian AndersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781891369704
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first anthology for small-boat enthusiasts -- fiction and essays on sailboats, canoes, rowboats, and kayaks.
Big Water, Little Boats
Author: Tom MartinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979505560
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Using historic photos, river logs, letters and interviews, author Tom Marin recounts the voyages of a number of unsung river runners during the transformation from Grand Canyon expeditionary river running into today's whitewater recreation" -- Cover, p. [4].
Building Small Boats
Author: Greg RösselPublisher: WoodenBoat Books
ISBN: 9780937822500
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Greg Rossel grew up cruising the waters of New York Harbor and spending time in the boatyards on the south shore of Staten Island where economics (more than anything else) made wooden boats the craft of choice. He makes his home in Maine where he specializes in the construction and repair of small wooden boats, as well as writing for several publications. Greg has been an instructor at WoodenBoat School in Maine since the mid-1980's, teaching lofting, skiff building, and the "Fundamentals of Boatbuilding".
Adrift
Author: Steven CallahanPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547526563
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.
Yachting
Author: Green Waters
Author: Alec FinlayPublisher: Polygon
ISBN: 9780748662807
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
First published in 1998, Green Waters celebrates working and pleasure boats, boat forms, voyages and fishing lore through poetry, prose, photography and art. It includes work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ian Stephen and Graham Rich, amongst others.
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
The Dory Book
Author: John GardnerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493068326
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumberman's batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat. The most comprehensive book about dories ever published, this is at once a history of the dory, a practical handbook on dory building, and a compendium of 23 dory designs with full construction details. The author, a longtime contributor to National Fisherman, and the illustrator, Sam Manning, are perhaps the foremost experts on the subject. A steady stream of letters and photographs to the late John Gardner from successful dory builders worldwide has been testimony to the widespread popularity and influence of this book.
The Life and Works of Winslow Homer
Author: William Howe DownesTwo Cities
Author: Max OvertonPublisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
ISBN: 1925574776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Hyksos drive south into the Nile Valley, sweeping all resistance aside. Bebi and Sobekhotep, grandsons of Harrubaal, assume command of the loyal Egyptian army and strive to stem the flood of Hyksos conquest. But even the cities of the south are divided against themselves. Abdju, an old capital city of Egypt reasserts itself, putting forward a line of kings of its own, and soon the city is at war with Waset, the southern capital of the Nile Valley, as the two cities fight for supremacy in the face of the advancing northern enemy. Caught up in the turmoil of warring nations, the ordinary people of Egypt must fight for their own survival as well as that of their kingdom.