Water category: 2366 books
Surfing Indonesia
A Search for the World's Most Perfect Waves
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Surfing Indonesia: A Search for the World's Most Perfect Waves is a guidebook to surfing at some of the most incredible surfing destinations in the world.
Explore the history of Indonesia surfing and gain some insight from surfers alike. Surfing Indonesia takes you on a safari, an ultimate...
Let's dive
Scuba diving for kids and teens
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The companion book for the first diving course. More and more kids and teens want to learn to dive. "Let's dive" is an excellent illustrated guide. The self-explanatory step-by-step-illustrations and the easy-to-understand texts explain in clear and simple terms and in a very interesting...
by Albert Gundani
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Swimming is a life saving skill, as well as a holistic and simple exercise with benefits that go beyond physical development and improved health. Swimming stimulates intelligence and extends lifespan. Swimming can prevent your child from drowning, which is a major cause of death in young children....
Ocean Crossing Wayfarer
To Iceland and Norway in a 16ft Open Dinghy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This classic sea story recounts Frank Dye's intrepid voyages
in his open 16ft Wayfarer dinghy to Iceland and Norway, which must rank
among the most hazardous sea adventures of our time.
Encountering the whole gamut of weather, such is Frank Dye's
seamanship that he and his crew survived gales...
by Mark Chisnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
So, you think you’d like to sail around the world?
Imagine sunsets across calm oceans, cocktails at cosy anchorages, landfalls in amazing new places....
And then imagine something else, imagine taking part in one of the planet’s last great adventures. Imagine the story of an incredible...
by Jim Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
"Utterly compulsive and unputdownable--the most exciting, authentic, and humanly moving of all the recent Storm books. Brilliantly paced and perfectly balanced. . . . Carrier is a marvelously trustworthy narrator. . . . A terrific book."--Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau: A Sea...
The Weather Handbook
An Essential Guide to How Weather is Formed and Develops
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be.
This...
Going Foreign
Cruising Abroad for the First Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Many reasonably experienced coastal sailors (and motorboaters) find the
prospect of sailing their boat to the continent appealing yet daunting.
There are so many additional aspects that all need to be taken into
account and complied with that it can seem a forbidding prospect. This
highly illustrated,...
Ice with Everything
In climbing mountains or sailing the seas one often has to settle for less than one hoped.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
‘For most men, as Epicurus has remarked, rest is stagnation and activity madness. Mad or not, the activity that I have been pursuing for the last twenty years takes the form of voyages to remote, mountainous regions.’
H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s fourteenth book describes three more of those...
The Field Guide to Knots
How to Identify, Tie, and Untie Over 80 Essential Knots for Outdoor Pursuits
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
A Fasten-ating Guide to Knots for Every Adventure!
The perfect knot can make any job quicker, easier, and safer—whether you need to build a shelter, tether a horse, rappel down a cliff, or moor a boat. In The Field Guide to Knots, veteran outdoorsman Bob Holtzman helps you:
Select and...
by Ben Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Fancy a career change? Looking for something different? Wanting to travel the world and save money? Well may be super yachting could be for you?
This guide is aimed at those considering entry into the super yacht industry to help increase their knowledge into this highly competitive industry....
Salty Dog Talk
The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Most of us never realise how many words and expressions used in
everyday English have a nautical origin. This fascinating and charming
pocket book explains the seafaring beginnings of over 200 such phrases- colourful, bizarre and surprising - and how they came ashore.
Just a few examples are:
Chock-a-block
Chance...
Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions
Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
There were too many degrading disasters, mortifying mishaps and groan-worthy gaffes for one collection, so following on from Yachting Monthly's Confessions, here is another wonderful collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine.
For...
A Week on the Broads
Four Victorian gents at sail on a Norfolk gaffer in 1889
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the Norfolk Broads. Baker, a keen artist and diarist, recorded their travels in watercolour in two small leather bound books.
The...