The Ghost Pirates completes Hodgson's acclaimed theme trilogy that began with The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' and continued through The House on the Borderland.

WOOING JENNY: Jenny Lavoie's and Sam Stone's parents decree they must marry one another or be disinherited. Jenny has loved Sam for as long as she can remember so that shouldn't be a problem except that Sam is engaged to the outlandish, motorcycle riding Katie and has no interest in marrying Jenny. Almost. Sam doesn't want to lose the company his grandfather worked so hard to build, so he decides to marry Jenny and conduct a sham of a marriage for the three years it takes to satisfy his parents' ridiculous demands, dump Jenny, and marry Katie. It should be easy enough as Jenny's followed him around since she was sixteen and she's easy on the eyes. But Sam is flabbergasted when Jenny refuses to marry him now and doesn't care if she's disinherited. He finds himself having to woo her, including whisking her away to a very romantic vacation on Fiji's sunny beaches, which threatens to alienate his real fiance, and threatens his heart he thought he knew so well. SHIPWRECKED: Katie McLaughlin has had it with rich, spoiled men. She never wants to see that betrayer Sam Stone or another rich man again. Ever! Desperate to get off Fiji and away from Sam and his new fiance, she charters a boat to take her to the island with the nearest airport but winds up shipwrecked on a deserted South Pacific island instead. To Katie's utter dismay, not only is she shipwrecked without any form of communication device, she's shipwrecked with only the boat's captain, Scott Vanderhorne, whose family is twice, maybe thrice, as rich as Sam's family. She decides the fates hate her when Scott tells her he's engaged. Katie can barely stand to talk to Scott, and Scott doesn't like to be cast in the role of villain merely because he's rich. But they soon realize that class distinction has no bearing in their private, tropical paradise, and they're forced to rely on one another to survive.

Then the storm hit... 'Rocks Dead ahead!' Jeremy wrenched the tiller to one side. Too late. With a sickening crunch they hit. They were on a remote island. 'There are men here', Jeremy tells Peter and Pal, 'and huts and boats.' 'How do you know?' Peter asks. 'I've seen them.' 'You've what?' How could Jeremy see them? Jeremy is blind. What Peter doesn't know is that Jeremy has developed the power to 'travel' and when he 'travels', he sees. What does he see? What is the secret of the island ... and what awaits the children when they are drawn into an exciting and dangerous adventure?

Working closely with the Bahamas Tourist Board, Howard has updated and expanded this popular guidebook, with many details not found in competing guides. Nassau, New Providence, Grand Bahama, The Abacos, Andros, Bimini, Eleuthera, The Exumas, San Salvador, Long Island, Cat Island, the Acklins, the Inguanas and the Berry Islands – they're all covered in detail. The Adventure Guide to the Bahamas tells you where to stay and eat, the best street markets and malls, and how to get around. A special section is dedicated to mailboat schedules (one of the best ways to island-hop). Like the rest of the Caribbean, the Bahamas offers plenty of watersports, and this book provides extensive details on the best dive sites – along with the best operators – and the best fishing holes. Charter boats and deep-sea vessels. Fully indexed. Maps.

Michael Brein's Guide to Amsterdam by the Tram shows visitors how to go to Amsterdam's top 50 visitor attractions by Amsterdam's tram system as well as by the metro and canal boats. The guide shows which transit to use, which lines to take, which transit stops to board and exit, and, using detailed mini-area-walking maps, how to walk exactly from these transit stops directly to the visitor attractions. Additional nearby points of interest are also indicated on these mini-area-walking maps. An ultra-large official map of the transit system is also provided.

Pains on Trains is the perfect way to take the tedium out of commuting, guaranteed to become as indispensable to the seasoned traveller as the blow-up pillow and water sterilising tablets.In Pains on Trains, Andrew Holmes and Matthew Reeves set their sights on the scourge of the modern office worker - other office workers who clog up trains, buses, boats and planes with their annoying habits and depressing clothes. Pains on Trains is dedicated to the rush-hour veteran and consists of a 'pain-spotting' guide to the very worst people you meet on your daily commute. Each painful character is illustrated in their usual context and supported by a short narrative.

Free excerpts are available for this ebook: Download Free Excerpt for Adobe Reader Download Free Excerpt for Microsoft Reader PerfectBound Special Feature! Read the author, Rob Mundle's summary of the coroner's report and the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia investigation into the tragedy. The Sydney to Hobart yacht race has become established as one of the world's major sporting events. The race in 1998 became one of the world's major sporting disasters with the tragic loss of six sailors, injuries to many others and damage to many boats. The search and rescue operation was more like the D-Day landing exercise. Its story leaves Saving Private Ryan in the shade. Had it not been for the superior skills in organisation and operation many more would have been lost. Free excerpt available for this ebook - click more.

Nathaniel Bishop left Quebec in the summer of 1874 in an 18-foot canoe, accompanied by an assistant. His plan was to follow natural and manmade waterways all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, making as few portages as possible. 400 miles into the journey, he discovered a company in New York state that had been perfecting the construction of paper boats. Dismissing his assistant, Bishop purchased one of these incredibly light and sturdy paper crafts and paddled the next 2,000 miles on his own, emerging off the Florida coast in 1875. This is the story of his incredible journey.

In this newest version of the bestselling Cruising Alaska guidebook, Larry Ludmer explores in depth everything you need to know about passenger ships plying the Alaska waterways. Unlike most cruise guidebooks, Cruising Alaska puts the emphasis on hard facts – not pretty pictures. The expanded 5th edition gives even more details on every cruise ship, large and small, the Alaska Marine Highway ferries, and 'Explorer' boats, which can navigate the smaller inlets.

In his number one bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as “one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast.” Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East Coast, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick.

A book for everyone who is interested in naval history, Deeply Canadian: New Submarines for a New Millennium tells the story of how Canada nearly lost her submarine service in the 1990s after decades of dedicated duty." Written in a clear and concise style, Deeply Canadian is informative and does not resort to technical jargon to make its point -- highly recommended." Cdr. Michael Young, CD, (Ret), contributing editor, Maritime Affairs.Canada has a tradition of undervaluing her armed services and her navy has been no exception. However Canada's small submarine service has had the toughest fight to stay alive of any branch in her military. Over the last fifteen years it has been an on-again, off-again proposition but, in 1998, the government gave the Silent Service its reprieve when Cabinet approved the acquisition of four new submarines to replace the aging Oberon class boats.Beginning where the successful Through a Canadian Periscope (Dundurn 1995) left off, Deeply Canadian explains why Canada is acquiring new submarines at the turn of a millennium that, for the moment at least, does not look like suffering another world war. An enjoyable, jargon-free read, it recounts the latest, bedeviled submarine acquisition against the backdrop of Canada's submarine heritage and naval/ political history. Deeply Canadian also explores why conventionally-powered submarines are a realistic choice for Canada and what the new four Victoria class boats will add to the country's security and NATO in the 21st century.