SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAROn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France.
Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Operation Desecrate 1 - the raid undertaken to destroy Japanese ships and aircraft in the lagoons of Palau.
This is a meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses, and the events surrounding their sinking, off the coast of Scotland from Berwick-on-Tweed to the Forth and Tay, and northwards to Stonehaven.
The author has acquired a vast wealth of knowledge, data and experience in boat angling, sport and wreck diving over a period of almost 50 years and has written various wreck books, including two volumes about shipwrecks off the north-east coast of England.
A kayak trip in Greenland's Nuuk fjords through an area of amazing beautyTurreted fairytale peaks, glistening snowfields, waterfalls plunging over immense cliffs into the sea, a million tons of ice capsizing - this is the setting for Fallen Pieces of the Moon, an account of a kayak trip along the west coast of Greenland, paddling about 150 miles of coastline in the Nuuk fjords area.
The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the core of Churchill's deterrent Force Z, stunned the world.
The constant dangers that deep-sea sailing ships and sailors of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries faced were numerous and this book recounts the true-life dramas of their perils and misfortunes - the battles that they waged, and all too often lost - against the hazards of the sea.
Following the successful previous book, this new and expanded edition is the most informative and comprehensive book available, particularly for the diving fraternity, and will be essential for divers wishing to experience the rich underwater heritage around the 28 Farne Islands.
To celebrate 60 years of sailing Scottish waters, the author single-handedly sailed Halcyon, a 32ft wooden yawl, from Fairlie on the Clyde, round the Mull of Kintyre by way of numerous inner islands to Barra in the Outer Hebrides and to the Atlantic side of the islands, not often visited by cruising yachts.
From the best-selling author of four classic UK diving books, comes The Darkness Below - a collection of absorbing adventures gained from a lifetime in diving.
For more than 30 years, internationally acclaimed wreck diver and best-selling author, Rod Macdonald, has surveyed and researched shipwrecks around the world.
Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from Rod's long and varied diving career.
From the author of the international Bestseller BreathCovering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving.
World Champion, European Champion, Commonwealth Champion, diving ace Tom Daley has achieved more than most professional sportsmen could ever dream of in a lifetime.
In Why We Fish, Bob Rich uncovers the universal bond that connects anglers across the globe, revealing how the simple act of casting a line can inspire optimism, forge friendships, and celebrate our shared humanity.
This book for parents and course instructors contains not only the basic knowledge gained from practical experience but also the latest scientific findings on how babies can be encouraged to develop comprehensively from an early age through 'baby swimming', and also to use water as a natural environment.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**Flares Up is a true story of adventure, tenacity and the capacity of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.
Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography.
THE ROYAL ROAD TO ROMANCE in which a gay young romanticist goes laughing and beating and fighting his vagabond way into the glamorous corners of the world.
THEY FLEW THROUGH THE AIR WITH GREATEST OF EASERichard Halliburton can be counted on to lead his readers into strange places, into hilarious difficulties, into new appreciations of history and romance and never to qualify his outrageous philosophy of reckless living with a single sober moral.
The story of some of Earl Denman's mountaineering exploits to Africa, culminating in his journey in 1947 through Tibet to Everest with Tenzing Norgay (later to become one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest) is here told for the first time.
Seven League Boots, which was first published in 1935 and his fifth and final book, details American adventurer Richard Halliburton's epic adventures in a variety of remote places.
First published in 1930, this is the personal adventure narrative of Henri de Monfreid-nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin.
