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Muddy Boots: Outdoor Activities for Children

No child can walk through a puddle of mud without a gigantic smile, and while the stuff might be the spring-time bane of grownups, children just love mud.Muddy Bootstargets kids and families who value outdoor exploration and grandparents who long for...

Sea Secrets: Tiny Clues to a Big Mystery

Journey thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean and investigate a mystery connecting three distinctly different animals from the California Current down to the polar waters west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Become an ocean detective and discover the...

Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen

In Skipjack, Christopher White spends a pivotal year with three memorable captains as they battle man and nature to control the fate of their island villages and oyster fleet. . Through these lively characters, White paints a vivid picture of life on a...

Willy Whitefeather's Outdoor Survival Handbook for Kids

Willie Whitefeather, Honorary Chief of the Black Creek Cherokee of FL, river-rafter, and backwoods guide, has lived in the wilderness for many years. Disturbed by the lack of survival guides for children (who are the most helpless when they get lost or...

Naval Shiphandler's Guide

The first new book on naval shiphandling in more than a generation, this guide helps beginning and intermediate shiphandlers learn and perfect a skill crucial to their naval careers while at the same time offering useful hints to seasoned pros. The book...

Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road, 9th edition

Professional mariners, military and civilian, from cadets to captains, will find this book's thorough commentary on the rules of the road and its analysis of numerous collision cases in which the courts construed and applied those rules an invaluable...

Fleet Tactics And Naval Operations, 3rd Edition

The revised edition of this indispensable work still covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends (factors that have changed throughout history), constants (things that have not changed), and...

Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War off America's East Coast, 1942

Slaughter at sea—just miles from U.S. soil!In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As...

Watch Officer's Guide: A Handbook for All Deck Watch Officers

Almost as essential to a successful bridge watch as a helm, this guide has long been a primary source of information for standing a taut, safe, and efficient watch. The new edition has been updated for the Navy of the twenty-first century, reflecting the...

Howard Hughes: Aviator

George J. Marrett, a former test pilot for aviator Howard Hughes, separates fact from fiction to tell the inside story of the genius who set flight speed records in the 1930s and went on to develop some of America’s most famous aircraft and weapons...

Stealth Boat: Fighting the Cold War in a Fast-Attack Submarine

The incredible fetes of the Navy’s stealth boat USSSturgeon(SSN637) come to life in this insightful chronicle of the three years McHale spent in the Silent Service.”— Carl LaVO,author ofThe Galloping Ghost: The Extraordinary life of Submarine...

Rigging Period Ship Models: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Intricacies of the Square-Rig

The rigging of period ship models is arguably the most complex and daunting task for the modeler. An eighteenth-century man-of-war boasted mile upon mile of rigging, over 1,000 blocks, and acres of canvas. To reduce the rigging in scale and yet retain an...