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  • The Everything Family Guide to Coastal Florida

    St. Augustine, Miami, the Keys, Panama City--and all the hot spots in between!

    by Bob Brooke ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    There's more to Florida than Orlando! The Everything Family Guide to Coastal Florida is your perfect guide to the rest of Florida—from the panhandle to the Gulf Coast, and from Key West to Jacksonville.Filled with family-friendly advice on the best restaurants and hotels for every budget, this book is an extensive resource for activities, sports, shopping, spas, and—most importantly—Florida's ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Everything Family Guide To Mexico

    From Pesos to Parasailing, All You Need for the Whole Family to Fiesta!

    by Bob Brooke ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    Mexico has become a popular family vacation destination, with resorts catering to parents and children of all ages. Over 5.3 million tourists visit Mexico annually. The Everything Family Guide to Mexico is the travel handbook for the adventurous and cautious family alike. With a historical and cultural overview of Mexico and special attention given to family-friendly destinations, this is the all ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Outer Banks

    Legends And Lore, Pirates And More!

    by Bob Brooke ...
    History and folklore abound in these twenty-five true stories about lost ships along North Carolina's storm-washed Outer Banks. Learn the haunting tales of wrecked vessels such as the steam packet Pulaski in 1838, the Pocahantas in 1862, the Virginia in 1900 and, of course, the ongoing search for the pirate ship of Blackbeard, among many others. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Sea Hunters II

    The second thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other marvels that changed history.For decades, Clive Cussler’s real-life NUMA®, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

    by Dennis Powers ...
    "Kirkus Reviews" summarized: "Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trial by Ice

    The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition

    by Richard Parry ...
    “An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the dark years following the Civil War, America’s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Gale of 1929

    by Gary Collins ...
    On the night of November 29, 1929, eleven schooners set sail for home from the comfort and safety of St. John’s harbour. They all headed north: directly into the teeth of a deadly hurricane. Here for the first time are the stories of the eleven schooners that were caught in the gale of 1929. Newfoundland’s favourite storyteller, Gary Collins, takes us aboard each one in turn to witness the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Adrift

    A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It

    A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or deathThe small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Tinkerbelle

    The epic story of Robert Manry's transatlantic voyage

    by Robert Manry ...
    There is no dream so large that it can’t fit into a tiny boat… TINKERBELLE tells the real story about a man’s boyhood dream and how he made his dream come true. This is ROBERT MANRY’S inspiring tale of how he became enchanted with the notion of sailing the high seas, and how, years later, he set sail on a voyage that has fascinated sailors, adventurers, and dreamers, ever since. It is the gripping ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Darker Sea

    Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812

    Series Book 2 - A Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure
    The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution—the War of 1812.At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Flying Cloud

    The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Her

    by David W. Shaw ...
    "Details the record-breaking 1851 New York-to-San Francisco voyages of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, focusing on its navigator, Eleanor Creesy." — Library JournalIn 1851, navigator Eleanor Creesy set sail on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud, traveling from New York to San Francisco in only eighty-nine days. This swift passage set a world record that went unbroken for more than a ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sailors' Yarns & Tavern Tales: Vanishings, Ghosts and Spooky Ships

    Ships found drifting with no crew aboard. Lighthouse keepers haunted by the Grey Lady, searching for her lost babe. A wooden ship trapped in Arctic ice for 13 years traveling the Northwest Passage with a frozen crew. The ghosts of drowned sailors photographed swimming alongside a ship.These are some of the stories told in Sailors' Yarns & Tavern Tales. For most of the long history of humans at sea ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus