Ben Lowings examines David Lewis's lifetime of adventure forensically yet sympathetically, to com...

Gloria Wilson documents the Peterhead yard of Richard Irvin & Sons, and the wooden craft for whic...

This book is a conversation with the past, conducted in a very old, engineless gaff cutter, armed...

Inexplicably out of print since the late 1940s, Messing About in Boats is one of the most charmin...

In his lone six-year voyage from England to New Zealand in the 1950s, in a 1908 yawl designed by ...

Erling's Tambs's charming and modest account of how, with great fortitude, resourcefulness and go...

Martin O'Scannall's engaging account of his forty-year affair with a modest but beautiful Edwardi...

David Hillyard built affordable wooden yachts for the masses, from 1906 to the 1960s-about 800 of...

Will Stirling describes and illustrates the many arcane tasks which can daunt the beginning boatb...

An exhaustive visual and verbal journal of the building of the 68ft Pilot Cutter Pellew, by Luke ...

HEARD ISLAND, an improbably remote speck in the far Southern Ocean, lies four thousand kilometres...

In a post-exploration world, two relatively ordinary blokes, serving Royal Marines, decided they ...