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Des Pawson's Knot Craft and Rope Mats

60 Ropework Projects Including 20 Mat Designs

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This wonderful collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an expanded and now full-colour collection of projects from Des's popular Des Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs.Readers can learn how to make 60 different ropework projects, including mats, bellropes, key fobs, fenders and doorstops. Along with fascinating titbits of nautical history as ... Read more

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This wonderful collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an expanded and now full-colour collection of projects from Des's popular Des Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs.Readers can learn how to make 60 different ropework projects, including mats, bellropes, key fobs, fenders and doorstops. Along with fascinating titbits of nautical history as
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Creative Ropecraft

A treasure trove of knots, hitches, bends, plaits and netting

by Stuart Grainger ...

Creative Ropecraft is a wonderful collection of practical nautical knots and decorative ropework. Anyone tempted to try their hand at this will be able to follow the steps easily thanks to Stuart Grainger's exquisite and clear drawings. This brand new, fully updated edition has a foreword, revisions, and tips from knotting expert, Des Pawson. Readers can learn how to tie and use a wide variety of ... Read more

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Creative Ropecraft is a wonderful collection of practical nautical knots and decorative ropework. Anyone tempted to try their hand at this will be able to follow the steps easily thanks to Stuart Grainger's exquisite and clear drawings. This brand new, fully updated edition has a foreword, revisions, and tips from knotting expert, Des Pawson. Readers can learn how to tie and use a wide variety of
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Go to Sea

by Greg LeBreton ...

Have you ever watched a sailboat slip from its dock and cruise out to sea? Have you wanted to go along? "Go to Sea" gives you all the reasons to climb aboard a sailing adventure with your family. With plenty of links to cruising resources, web pages, and equipment information, Go to Sea is a must have for every new sailor wanting to cruise. ... Read more

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Have you ever watched a sailboat slip from its dock and cruise out to sea? Have you wanted to go along? "Go to Sea" gives you all the reasons to climb aboard a sailing adventure with your family. With plenty of links to cruising resources, web pages, and equipment information, Go to Sea is a must have for every new sailor wanting to cruise.
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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

by Richard White ...

A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of ... Read more

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A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating panics in the U.S. economy. Their dependence on public largess drew them into the corridors of
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How to Read Water

Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

by Tristan Gooley ...

Series series Natural Navigation
**A New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016The ultimate guide to interpreting natural signs in water**From oceans to puddles, lakes to streams, rain to fog, our planet is covered in water of all kinds. And once you learn to read water’s hidden clues the way writer and navigator Tristan Gooley can, the world becomes a trove of secret signs. In How to Read ... Read more

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**A New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016The ultimate guide to interpreting natural signs in water**From oceans to puddles, lakes to streams, rain to fog, our planet is covered in water of all kinds. And once you learn to read water’s hidden clues the way writer and navigator Tristan Gooley can, the world becomes a trove of secret signs. In How to Read
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Celestial Navigation

Learn How to Master One of the Oldest Mariner's Arts

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Celestial navigation is one of the oldest of the mariner's arts – and one of the most awe-inspiring. It is also essential for every ocean sailor who wants to be able to fix his position should the GPS fail. Tom Cunliffe shows you how to master the art in easy stages. Within a few pages you'll be taking your first sight. From there it is a short step to plotting your position, wherever you may be ... Read more

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Celestial navigation is one of the oldest of the mariner's arts – and one of the most awe-inspiring. It is also essential for every ocean sailor who wants to be able to fix his position should the GPS fail. Tom Cunliffe shows you how to master the art in easy stages. Within a few pages you'll be taking your first sight. From there it is a short step to plotting your position, wherever you may be
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Blood Ransom

Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy

by John Boyle ...

For the first time in history, the navies of every superpower on the planet have united against a common enemy – a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys. Crammed together in tiny open boats,they range up to a thousand miles from their home shores. Armed with ancient AK47s and rocket propelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. No-one knows how many simply die at sea. But ... Read more

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For the first time in history, the navies of every superpower on the planet have united against a common enemy – a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys. Crammed together in tiny open boats,they range up to a thousand miles from their home shores. Armed with ancient AK47s and rocket propelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. No-one knows how many simply die at sea. But
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Tinkerbelle

The epic story of Robert Manry's transatlantic voyage

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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

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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
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Practical Boat Owner's Sailing Around the UK and Ireland

by Roger Oliver ...

This book, based on a highly successful series of articles in Practical Boat Owner magazine, is a detailed practical guide to sailing around the UK - all by means of day sails.Roger Oliver, a passionate sailor, explains his in-depth passage planning, boat preparations, weather checks and log-keeping, as well as his choice of routes, the detailed navigation, sail trim tips and on-passage ... Read more

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This book, based on a highly successful series of articles in Practical Boat Owner magazine, is a detailed practical guide to sailing around the UK - all by means of day sails.Roger Oliver, a passionate sailor, explains his in-depth passage planning, boat preparations, weather checks and log-keeping, as well as his choice of routes, the detailed navigation, sail trim tips and on-passage
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Lofting a Boat

A Step-by-Step Manual

by Roger Kopanycia ...

The second book in our Classic Boat series aimed at traditional boat lovers, builders and restorers.Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing andbuilding a boat in order to turn the design plans intoboat lines plans to measure off and build thefull-size boat. Its a tricky art, but this book shows exactly how it is done inclear, step-by-step diagrammatic stages. Aimed ... Read more

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The second book in our Classic Boat series aimed at traditional boat lovers, builders and restorers.Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing andbuilding a boat in order to turn the design plans intoboat lines plans to measure off and build thefull-size boat. Its a tricky art, but this book shows exactly how it is done inclear, step-by-step diagrammatic stages. Aimed
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Foraging for Beginners: Your Simplified Guide to Foraging Edible Plants for Survival in the Wild

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by Lonnie Carr ...

Series series Self-Sufficient Living
Simplified Guide To Foraging Edible Plants For Survival in the WildIf you get stranded, are you ready?It can happen to anyone. Your car can break down, a natural disaster can hit, and you're stuck in the wild with no idea how to survive. This can be one of the most dangerous situations a person can get in. Most people could never make it out alive. They simply don't know how easy it is to survive ... Read more

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Simplified Guide To Foraging Edible Plants For Survival in the WildIf you get stranded, are you ready?It can happen to anyone. Your car can break down, a natural disaster can hit, and you're stuck in the wild with no idea how to survive. This can be one of the most dangerous situations a person can get in. Most people could never make it out alive. They simply don't know how easy it is to survive
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A Dockyard Apprentice's story

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The apprenticeship at Chatham Dockyard is the finest in the world - if you stick to it, the world's your oyster' Robert Smith's dad told his teenage son. When young Robert started there in 1958, the docks employed 6000 people on a two-mile long site encompassing hundreds of workshops, offices and storehouses as well as its own police station, fire service, medical centre, technical college and ... Read more

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The apprenticeship at Chatham Dockyard is the finest in the world - if you stick to it, the world's your oyster' Robert Smith's dad told his teenage son. When young Robert started there in 1958, the docks employed 6000 people on a two-mile long site encompassing hundreds of workshops, offices and storehouses as well as its own police station, fire service, medical centre, technical college and
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