Old Book Shop Publication: 4 books

British writer Jack Owen served in the Royal Navy as a boy. Then wised up. He evolved into a local newspaper reporter and feed stop-press snippets to national media in England. Part of that beat ranged from Broadmoor Institute for the Criminally Insane to Sandhurst Military Academy. Difficult...

A cartooney and photographically illustrated book of anecdotes gathered following years of boat deliveries Up and Down the ICW [Intracoastal Waterway], sheltered behind America's Atlantic coast. No journey can escape that stowaway Murphy whose law 'Anthing that Can go wrong WILL go wrong',...

One Halloween the US Navy would like to forget, played a terrible trick on LIEUTENANT DAVID PORTER, in 1803. He, along with 306 other shipmates aboard the 38-gun frigate USS Philadelphia, including Captain William Bainbridge, were caught by pirates at Tripoli It took guile and courage to free them...

The unexpected arrival of America, the most famous yacht in the world,  in a Florida backwater creek, imperiled the lives of all within the Confederate community. One false move could bring the wrath of a Union gunboat upon the residents of Walaka. Only the firm leadership of a cavalry captain and...