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SAILING WITH MOHAMMED.By Tony Farrington. Pbk, 130mm x 200mm, 256 pages, full colour photographs and drawings.
You may recognise Tony Farrington as the author of Rescue In The Pacific - the most popular and enduring of the books and video produced on the 1994 Fiji-return disaster (and in reprint on the publication of this new book).
"Misfortune led us to paradise" is the author's introduction to this book.
Paradise in this case being tiny, tropical Rebak Island in the Malacca Straits, to which New Zealander Tony Farrington and his family sailed after thieves had stolen the tender to their yacht Antares II in Phuket harbour in 1996.
Over the next five years the author and his family used Rebak as a base from which to explore Muslim Asia before heading for the Middle East in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. On their adventures they encountered warm hospitality, a burial on Sulawesi, Komodo dragons on Flores, gunfire in Sri Lanka, moonwashed dolphins, high seas piracy and extreme weather.
Mohammed, the Prophet’s name, is worn with pride by many of the characters you will meet in Tony’s absorbing account of a voyage through a cultural setting in which Western ethics and preconceptions are frequently challenged.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
PACIFIC RESCUE DVDByNinox Collector's Edition. 90 Mins approx Available in PAL format.
A Great opportunity for all of you who have missed out on the video. Over seas customers, if you have a multi-format DVD player you can play this DVD with it. In June 1994, a rogue storm hit the South Pacific ocean, causing terror, destruction and tragedy. Forty vessels and aircraft became involved, either as rescuers or those requiring rescue; twenty-one people were plucked from the raging seas, a family of three were lost. This is the video of the tragedy and tells the story of the drama as it unfolds - the Metservice, Kerikeri Radio, Search and Rescue headquarters, the various rescue vessels and planes; and the people on the yachts, terrified, alone, reliant on the help of others many miles away. This is ninety minutes of emotion-charged drama featuring the endurance of those who survived and the heroism of those on land, in the air, and at sea, acts that were later deservedly awarded.
NZ$30.00 + Delivery.
RESCUE IN THE PACIFIC.By Tony Farrington. Pbk, 205mm x 135mm, 400 pages, monochrome photographs and drawings.
This is the true story of the yachts that struggled to survive the cyclone-like conditions of the June storm in 1994. Whilst battered by fierce winds and capsized by towering seas, the crews coped as best as they could with injury, fear, exhaustion, and despair. Their electronic calls for help were picked up by satellites and radio operators, who initiated a massive sea and air rescue mission. This is the story of the heroic men and women who took part in this sea drama, both the rescuers and those being rescued. In their own words, they tell a story of danger, defeat and survival. With awe-inspiring photographs, this book offers both a shocking course in survival for blue-water voyagers, and a riveting account of human drama.
NZ$36.00 + Delivery.
FOLLOWING SEAS.By Beth A Leonard. Pbk, 190mm x 260mm, 252 pages, colour photographs, gloss paper.
Following Seas is Beth Leonard's inspirational account of the three year circumnavigation she and her partner, Evans, made aboard their 37 foot ketch, Silk
Wanting to escape from her high-powered yet hollow corporate life as an international management consultant, Beth exchanged the boardroom for a new life afloat where she and Evans were tested to the limit, but which enabled them both ultimately to emerge as stronger yet different people. Coping with frightening storms for days on end, facing unimagined dangers at sea, celebrating joyous landfalls and immersing themselves in exotic cultures where life is lived to different rhythms, Beth's gripping narrative and evocative prose is both thought provoking and compelling.
Armchair sailors and adventurers alike will be drawn into Beth's voyage of discovery, and anyone with an unquenchable dream will find in these pages the encouragement to chase that dream.
NZ$60.00 + Delivery.
THROUGH EUROPE AT 4 KNOTS.By Les Horn. Hbk, 145mm x 210mm, 295 pages, monochrome photographs and drawings.
New Zealand schoolteacher Les Horn had a brainstorm: why not navigate Europe's inland waterways, from England to Greece, in a small sailboat? Much to his surprise, he managed to sell his wife, Despina, and preteen children, Victoria and Charles, on the idea, and the following summer, installed in their 24-foot fixed-upper, Alea Jacta Est (the die is cast), the Horns set sail on the wry family odyssey chronicled in this delightful tale of misadventure.
The Horns' ambitious plan was to pilot their balky boat down the Thames River to the English Channel and then on to Despina's native Greece via the Seine, Rhine, Danube, Black Sea, and Aegean. Along the way, the Horns would be treated to transforming glimpses of the real Europe; by plying the meandering waterways that nourish the continent like a gigantic circulatory system, they would discover all the hidden splendors not covered in any tour book and out of reach to all but the most intrepid wayfarers.
Needless to say, things didn't turn out quite as expected. Plagued by accidents, breakdowns and delays, forced to forage for provisions, stymied at every turn by petty officials and cantankerous natives, the Horns, propelled more by pluck than by their cranky outboard motor, eventually made it to the Aegean, but not without their share of uproarious adventures in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
In this book, Les Horn combines an appreciation of the absurd with a journalist's eye for detail to weave a shrewdly funny account of a family voyage through Europe's variegated landscapes. Especially memorable are the family's surreal experiences of the epochal upheaval that swept eastern Europe in the early 1990s.
NZ$45.00 + Delivery.
A VOYAGE FOR MADMEN.By Peter Nichols. Pbk, 134mm x 204mm, 298 pages.
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death.
In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms in the Southern Ocean, and of those riveting moments when a split-second decision means the difference between life and death.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
RACUNDRA'S FIRST CRUISE.
By Arthur Ransome. Hardcover, 159mm x 242mm, 255 pages.
This new edition of Racundra's First Cruise includes the original maps, text and photographs from the 1923 edition, of which only 1500 copies were printed. The book was reprinted many times in various editions and formats but never in its original form. Details of Ransom's first attempts at Baltic sailing, in his two previous boats Slug and Kittiwake, are included in the introduction.
NZ$62.00 + delivery.
RACUNDRA'S THIRD CRUISE.
By Arthur Ransome. Hardcover, 159mm x 242mm, 127 pages.
Here is his Thrid Cruise, written shortly after his second marriage to Evgenia Shelepina at the British Consulate in Tallinn. Their honeymoon cruise was "in the lower reaches of the Dvina, up and down Aa and up Bolderaa to that fascinating, mysterious, romantic and claustrophobic maze of shallow narrow channels winding between enormously tall and strong reeds for what feels like thousands of square miles."
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
SOREN LARSEN.By Capt. Jim Cottier. Paperback, 147mm x 210mm, 256 pages.
This is the lively story of a modern voyage under sail 'homeward round Cape Horn'.
Soren Larsen, in company with another sailing ship Eye of the Wind, set off from Sydney and Auckland for the return voyage to Europe via the Horn, South America and the mid-Atlantic islands. In this combination of sailing adventure and travelogue, Captain Jim Cottier tells an entertaining tale of people and places along the way.
Described by the author as a 'Colchester Packet', the Soren Larsen is famous for her starring role in television's Onedin Line. Now working out of Auckland, she is a familiar sight off the New Zealand coast during summer, while in winter she cruises among the Pacific Islands. Eye of the Wind operates a similar schedule but is based in Australia.
On this voyage, both ships carry a crew of experienced sailors and volunteers (aged from the youthful to the elderly) who pay for the privilege of taking part in this adventure. Their voyage retraces the old route 'homeward' to Europe, the first British-registered sailing ships to 'double the Horn' for 50 years.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK .By Jack London. Paperback, 125mm x 195mm, 256 pages.
Jack London, a master of the adventure story, here writes of a true adventure - his own voyage across the Pacific in the Snark.
Knowing little of navigation, he set out from San Francisco with his wife and two crew, in a schooner whose defects included a tendency to leak and a refusal to face up to the wind when hove to. Snark took them to Hawaii, and then to the Marquesas and Solomon Islands; everywhere they were overwhelmed with South Seas hospitality. Jack London was able to admire the sailing qualities of Polynesian catamarans and succumb to the pleasures of life ashore, in contrast with the adventures and hardships of a two year ocean voyage.
NZ$24.00 + delivery.
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