Books

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

It’s well known that Herman Melville’s seminal novel Moby-Dick was inspired by a real-life disaster, which Nathaniel Philbrick details in his book In the Heart

Many sailors know well the legend of Rowdy, a 65-foot New York 40 launched in 1916. Built of pine planking on white oak frames, she

Four beloved books have returned in distinctive republications that feature celebrity introductions. Bloomsbury Publishing has produced paperback reissues of William Bligh’s Mutiny on Board HMS