For centuries the waters of the Red Sea have been amongst the most hazardous and feared in the world. Strong or erratic winds have taken lives and broken boats, smashed against rocks or hidden sandbar
Draws on extensive research to document the 1990s disaster mission during which two members of a five-man diving team were killed while completing construction on a 10-mile tunnel at the end of Boston
The Mountains-to-Sea Trail shows off the most spectacular, historic and quirky elements of the North Carolina landscape. Stretching one thousand miles from Clingmans Dome in the Smokies to Jockey's Ri
Terry Glavin sheds light on the mysteries of the North Pacific Ocean — a place of cultural and ecological richness and complexity. The maritime history of the North Pacific is rife with apocryp
Mackinnon recounts his own fascinating journey from north Wales to the Black Sea in a small Mirror dinghy. A marvelous madcap adventure, told with verve and humor by the indefatigable ‘captain.’
Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and outpirate pirates in this action-packed expose of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a profes
Lydia Rider Nye's journal is unique: it is presently the only known journal kept by a wife of a ship captain during a voyage along the Pacific Coast prior to 1848. Indeed, it may be the only known jou