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  • Marine Insurance Clauses

    by Tim Madge, Keith Sturges, Geoffrey Hudson ...
    Series series Maritime and Transport Law Library
    The new edition of Marine Insurance Clauses reflects numerous changes and additions to the policy clauses, and particularly the new style of the organisation entitled the International Underwriting Association of London in 2002. The new edition will bring you up to date with the present complex and sometimes confusing variations in policy conditions.Part of the Maritime and Transport Law Library. ... Read more

    $415.00 USD

  • High Mountains and Cold Seas

    The life of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman: soldier, mountaineer, navigator

    by J.R.L. Anderson ...
    Series Book 16 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    Harold William 'Bill' Tilman (1898 –1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else.The son of a Liverpool sugar importer, Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton ... Read more

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  • Mischief in Patagonia

    An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 2 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives' heads steam when they eat marmalade.'So responded H. W. 'Bill' Tilman to his own realisation that the Himalaya were too high for a mountaineer now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude ... Read more

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  • Mischief goes South

    Every herring should hang by its own tail

    by H.W. Tilman, Janet Verasanso ...
    Series Book 10 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.'So observes H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.In 1966, after a succession of eventful and successful voyages in the high latitudes of the Arctic, Tilman and his pilot cutter Mischief ... Read more

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  • The Ascent of Nanda Devi

    I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 3 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya.Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until 1950.The Ascent of Nanda Devi, Tilman's account of the climb, has been widely hailed as a classic. Keenly o... ... Read more

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  • Mischief among the Penguins

    Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.

    by H.W. Tilman, Tom Cunliffe ...
    Series Book 4 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.'So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience: ' Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary, playing double ... Read more

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  • Snow on the Equator

    Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 1 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He ... Read more

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  • Mischief in Greenland

    Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains

    by H.W. Tilman, Annie Hill ...
    Series Book 6 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure and mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.'H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa and the Himalaya and further developed in his early sailing adventures in the southern hemisphere, was honed to perfection with his discovery of ... Read more

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  • Reeds 21st Century Ship Management

    by Captain John W Dickie ...
    Series series Reeds Professional
    The first modern title to cover the varied and complex world of ship management in the 21st century.Ship management has constantly had to evolve to take into account the advancements in technology as well as the demands of the shipping industry. Having internet access and email on board ship has meant that the ship manager has to possess certain sets of skills to function effectively in the post, ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak

    by Maurice Herzog ...
    Translated by Nea Morin, Janet Adam Smith ...
    Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in historyAnnapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a long and treacherous approach, its summit proved unreachable until 1950, when a group of French mountaineers ... Read more

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  • Catching Thunder

    The True Story of the World’s Longest Sea Chase

    by Eskil Engdal, Kjetil Sæter ...
    December, 2014: In the forbidding waters off Antarctica, Captain Hammarstedt of the Bob Barker sets off on a voyage unlike any seen before. Across ten thousand miles of hazardous seas, Hammarstedt's crew will relentlessly pursue the Thunder – an infamous illegal fishing ship – for what will become the longest chase in maritime history. Wanted by Interpol, the Thunder has for years evaded justice: ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Two Years Before the Mast

    by Richard Henry Dana ...
    First published in 1840, “Two Years Before the Mast” is the true story of Richard Henry Dana’s voyage aboard the merchant vessel the “Pilgrim” on a trip around Cape Horn during the years 1834 to 1836. Dana was a student at Harvard when a case of the measles affected his vision. He left school and enlisted as a sailor on a merchant vessel, believing that the experience might help his eyesight. Dana ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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