Water category: 2366 books
Mark Spitz
The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Mark Spitz is arguably the most famous and successful Olympic athlete of all time because of his legendary performances at the 1972 Olympics, where he won seven gold medals while breaking seven world records. His amazing life story is told for the first time in the authorized biography Mark Spitz:...
Rowing for My Life
Two Oceans, Two Lives, One Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
“A thoughtful memoir . . . Experienced sailors and thrill seekers will especially enjoy the details of the ocean adventures” (Booklist).
Kathleen Saville and her husband, Curt, had recently gotten married and were settling down in a small town in New York—when Kathleen started to realize...
Mine's Bigger
The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all—from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat...
Speed Kills
Who killed the Cigarette Boat King, the fastest man on the seas?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
A feature film, Speed Kills, starring John Travolta, based on the book, premieres in fall 2018.
"Ocean racing superstar Don Aronow loved it when writers called him a living legend. His life of adventure is well known. It is his death that baffles police.
He was afraid of nothing,...
by Courtenay Latimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Presents a voyage undertaken by twelve people on a North Sea trawler in 1959, from England to New Zealand with adventures along the way.
Amazing Diving Stories
Incredible Tales from Deep Beneath the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
This collection of true diving stories makes for compelling reading for all divers. Enjoy classic tales of this extreme watersport, from thrilling wreck discoveries to encounters with the bizarre and the beautiful. There are stories of death and disaster, as well as bravery and triumph. Tales of the...
by Kim Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Two brave women prove that to live a real life adventure, they only need to take the first step. Giving into an urge to see the world, they take their cat and move onto a sailboat in California. After a year's preparation they set sail into the Pacific Ocean. Three months later they arrive in...
by John Champion
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Tells of a sailing journey from San Diego to Australia in a 40 foot sailing boat. Covers Mexico, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji. Also has a chapter on various events "that were too much fun," for the crew. Includes useful detail on various formalities required in the respective...
Reflections on the Neches
A Naturalist's Odyssey along the Big Thicket's Snow River
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2003
When Geraldine Watsons father was a teenager around the turn of the last century, he spent a summer floating down the Neches River, called Snow River by the Indians. Watson grew up hearing his tales of the steamboats, log rafts, and the flora and fauna of East Texas. So when she was sixty-three years...
The Pirates' Pact
The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2008
The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America
Was classical piracy an earlier version of state-sponsored terrorism?
Here's the story of how almost every well-known buccaneer of the “Golden Age of Piracy” enjoyed active sponsorship from England's...
The Way of a Ship
A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships,"...
by John D. Whidden
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
**John D. Whidden started out at sea in 1834, at the age of twelve, and did not retire until 1870. **
This is his account of over a quarter-century spent on the high seas.
Orphaned at five, nothing held Whidden back from embarking on sea life seven years later. Serving as an apprentice,...
Sea Fever
The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson's cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of The Beach of Falesa and The Ebb Tide? How did Masefield...
Album of Painting and Calligraphy
Volume Iii
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Prof. Lao Fa is, in modern times, an ink painter, a calligrapher, a poet, and an art educator, who is very famous in both China and Canada. This is the third volume of Album of Painting and Calligraphy by Lao Fa, which almost covers every aspect in painting and calligraphy, including ink landscape,...