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In Around Cape Horn Once More, Paul W. Simpson tells the story of Montebello, a French-built clipper ship that was lost off Australia in 1906.

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914-17 Antarctic expedition is one of maritime history’s most incredible survival stories. When Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice

The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, may be the most thoroughly researched and chronicled maritime disaster in history, but we know little

“From the start,” George Michelson Foy writes in Finding North, “staying alive has depended on navigation: the art of figuring out our position and in

When news broke that a Mexican fisherman was found alive on a remote island 36 months and 7,000 miles from where he disappeared after a

It’s hard not to love a sea story that seems too outrageous to be true, and such is the case with Gordon Bennett and the

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail single-handed around the world, logging 46,000 nautical miles between 1895 and 1898. An inspiration to the sailors

As an editor and writer for the British magazine Classic Boat, Nic Compton has sailed aboard dozens of classic yachts all over the world. His

Tom Cunliffe is a sailor to the bone and one of Britain’s most notable nautical celebrities. In The Wake of Heroes (Bloomsbury, $25) is a

It’s hard to not be envious of a 20-something couple parking their careers to cruise and live aboard for a year. In The Box Wine