Have you ever wondered about the people who lived and worked along the canals in the past? Have you ever caught a glimpse of something they might have seen or an echo of something they might have heard? Fiona Eadie certainly has, and it is this that has prompted her to write the stories of Amos the lock-keeper, Samuel the navy, Anne of the past, present and future and a host of other characters that populate the pages of Tales from the Towpath. Each...

Get the Summary of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. On the Titanic's maiden voyage, a seemingly minor collision with an iceberg led to a catastrophic sinking, revealing the ship's fatal vulnerabilities and the unpreparedness of its passengers and crew. The initial underestimation of the damage, combined with a lack of sufficient lifeboats and a delayed response from nearby ships,...

Our 21st-century lifestyle could not exist without large oil tankers. But most people's knowledge about their operations and the colossal debt owed to their experimental predecessors remains a closed book. Written by an experienced navigator who served aboard these behemoths in the 1970s, this book offers a real insight into life at sea on a VLCC and how it has changed over the years. It includes the intricacies of learning to navigate a monster,...

Building the St. Helena II tells the story of the 1970 reconstruction of an authentic, operational 1825 canal boat. The narrative unfolds in the small village of Canal Fulton, Ohio, along the surviving one-mile section of the 333-mile Ohio & Erie Canal, which in the 1820s connected the new nation's western frontier to the thriving coastal states. Canal Fulton was at the leading edge of a national environmental movement to reclaim, restore, and reuse...

When the terraforming crew of the interstellar starship John Glenn accidentally lands on the giant gas planet of Harlequin, they are forced to shape a nearby moon into a temporary home.

As Chinese and US spacecraft compete to be the first to land on Mars, a former astronaut, his cousin, and four teens from Florida decide to take matters into their own hands. If they can quickly build their own space-worthy ship using scrap metal, appliances, and power tools, they have a chance to come from behind-thanks to an inventive new power source that can propel them to the Red Planet within three days. No guts, no glory.

An eco-thriller takes readers to such far-flung locales as Paris, Iceland, Antarctica, and the Solomon Islands.

The adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.

"The USS Kentucky--a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads--is about to go on a routine cruise. Not long after it reaches the open sea, however, the Kentucky receives a launch order. After receiving that launch order, it is cut off from all counter-orders and disappears into the Pacific while it makes the eight-day transit to the launch site. What the Kentucky's crew doesn't know is that those launch...

Alexander Exquemelin, whose probable French origins remain unclear, was most certainly on board the ship of the infamous pirate captain, Henry Morgan, during his raid on Panama City in 1671. His association with the buccaneers began around 1669, when he was sold from his indentured servitude with the French West India Company to a barber-surgeon, who taught him the trade. His subsequent years as a surgeon on board various pirate ships led to the publication...