My Amazon Book Shop

My bookshop in co-operation with Amazon is back up. Take a look at the books, CDs, MP3 downloads and DVD on Greece, sailing and writing. And if I'm missing a book you like, let me know.

Travel - Barcelona to Rome

The travel books, music and DVD’s on these lists cover the topics of the next part of the voyage between Barcelona and Rome. Feel free to make comments and send me other titles you like.

Spain

Travel Books - Barcelona and Catalonia, Spain

Music of Spain

DVDs - Travel in Spain

France

Travel Books - Mediterranean France

Music of France

DVDs - Travel in France

Italy

Travel Books - Italy

Music of Italy

DVDs - Travel in Italy

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"I Want My Own Sailboat" Books

The following books are ones I found most useful when looking for a good, small, offshore capable boat.

Best Boats to Build or Buy by Ferenc Mate

Inspecting the Aging Sailboat by Don Casey

Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat by John Vigor

Surveying Fiberglass Sailboats by Henry C. Mustin

Twenty Small Sailboats to Take You Anywhere by John Vigor

Cruising Stories

These books are about how some cruisers have done it, whether it's coastal sailing around the Mediterranean or around the world past Cape Horn.

By the Grace of the Sea: A Woman's Solo Odyssey Around the World by Pat Henry

Pat Henry has done it alone and on very little money. She would paint water colours and then sell them along the way to finance her nine year voyage.

Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare by Reanne Hemingway-Douglass

Cape Horn: The Logical Route by Bernard Moitessier

Bernard Moitessier is my favourite sailing story author. Wish he had written more...

Cruising in Serrafyn by Lin and Larry Pardey.

Lin and Larry are my ultimate heroes when it comes to sailing. I read their books long before I had my own first sailboat and they inspired me to "go small, go now." They built their own boats, the first one, Serrafin, only 24-feet long and with NO engine and sailed her for many years before building a "big boat" which is only 30 feet long. One of my goals was to follow in their footsteps and cruise without an engine. I did this for two years in the Sea of Cortez on my 26-foot International Folkboat.

Dove by Robin Lee Graham

This is the book that got me started. It's a story of a 16-year old who sails around the world alone on a 24-foot boat.

How to Sail Around the World by Hal Roth

Maiden Voyage by Tanya Aebi

A 17-year old girl who sails alone around the world on a 26-foot Contessa.

My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn by David Hays and Daniel Hays

The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier

World Cruising Routes by Jimmy Cornell

More Cruising Stories and Cruising Guides:

Sailing Stories

Mediterranean Cruising Guides

Survival and Heavy Weather

These books will give you goose pimples and you'll end up wondering what possessed you to even consider sailing past the marina entrance. But you will. It's an addiction.

Adrift by Steven Callahan, is one of those books I just couldn't put down. I love reading about survival because I hope those stories will teach me how not to get into situations that require survival skills and yet teach me those skills just in case. Steven Callahan survived 78 days in a leaky life raft in the middle of the Atlantic after his sailboat sunk, simply because he refused to give up.I don't think I learned my lesson, because even though I had read the book long before crossing the Atlantic, we didn't HAVE a life raft - just a semi-inflated dinghy lashed up on deck. But I do believe that my will to live has kept us safe during that voyage.

Fastnet, Force 10 by John Rousmaniere

Godforsaken Sea by Derek Lundy

Heavy Weather Sailing by Peter Bruce

Red Sky in Mourning by Tami Oldham Ashcraft

Rescue in the Pacific by Tony Farrington

Storm Tactics Handbooks by Lin and Larry Pardey

Survive the Savage Sea Dougal Robertson

More of My Favourite Books

And these ones still need sorting. Imagine them in stacks in the corner of your favourite book shop.

Brightwork: The Art of Finishing Wood by Rebecca Wittman

Cost Conscious Cruiser by Lin Pardey

Cruising Chef Cookbook by Michael Greenwald

I've Been Around by Tanya Aebi

Sailing: A Woman's Guide by Doris Colgate

Self Sufficient Sailor by Larry Pardey

The Cruising Woman's Advisor by Diana Jessie

The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier

The Practical Mariner's Book of Knowledge by John Vigor

Voyaging on a Small Income by Ann Hill

World Cruising Routes by Jimmy Cornell

MORE SAILING BOOKS I WISH WOULD FIT IN THE SHIP'S LIBRARY

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