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17 produkter
Sailing Alone
A History
Häftad, 2024
160 kr
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**Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation Award for Best Book 2024** 'An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen'Colourful and inventive' The TimesSailing on a boat by yourself out …
Ahab's Rolling Sea
A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
Inbunden, 2019
323 kr
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Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best book ever written about …
Audubon at Sea
The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon
Av Christoph Irmscher, Richard J. King
Inbunden, 2022
281 kr
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This one-of-a-kind, lavishly illustrated anthology celebrates Audubon's connection to the sea through both his words and art. The American naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851) is widely remembered for his iconic paintings of American birdlife. But as this anthology makes clear, Audubon was …
Ahab's Rolling Sea
A Natural History of Moby-Dick
Häftad, 2021
274 kr
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Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best book ever written about …
Ocean Bestiary
Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton
Inbunden, 2023
200 kr
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A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea—whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking. For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet’s most inaccessible region, the place about which we know the least. From A to Z, abalone to …
Sailing Alone
A History
Ljudbok, 2023
184 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out floating on a …
Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. [By Richard J. King.] With maps and plans.
Häftad, 2011
374 kr
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Devil’s Cormorant
Häftad, 2014
293 kr
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Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, …
Sailing Alone
A History
E-bok, 2023
170 kr
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**Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation Award for Best Book 2024** 'An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen'Colourful and inventive' The TimesSailing on a boat by yourself out …
Allein auf See
Die Geschichte des Einhandsegelns
E-bok, 2025
230 kr
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Um eine Antwort auf diese Frage zu finden, richtet Richard J. King seinen Blick auf eine Reihe eigenwilliger Persönlichkeiten. Sie wagten es, ganz auf sich gestellt und in oft winzigen Schiffen die Weltmeere zu bezwingen, befreundeten sich mit Vögeln, gaben ihrer Ausrüstung Namen, überschritten …
Meeting Tom Brady
Inbunden, 2015
234 kr
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Imagine that you are an average American man. You work hard and love football. Your present is a highway of unbounded opportunity, your future a far horizon unclouded by doubt. Then comes middle age. Who can you look to when the highway begins to crack, when opportunity shrinks to the size of a …
Lobster
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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What do you know about the knobbly armoured, scarlet creature staring back at you from your fancy dinner plate? Since there are species of lobsters without claws, then what exactly is a lobster? To answer these questions Richard J. King, a former fishmonger and commercial lobsterman, has chronicled …
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