Arctic 2 Antarctic
A Celtic Spirit of Fastnet Adventure
Michael Holland & Janet King.

Includes a 60-min DVD of documentary material including interviews with the crew

In 2005 an experienced amateur crew from eight different countries and both hemispheres sailed from Ireland to Iceland and back aboard an Irish sailing boat. Then, in 2006, after a major refit to prepare her for high-latitude sailing, Celtic Spirit of Fastnet and her crew sailed south to Antarctica and across the Southern Ocean to South Georgia before returning to Argentina in 2007. This is the story of the crew’s 16,000-mile voyage, the adventures they experienced and the dangers they overcame as they sailed across oceans. Together, they explored some of the wildest and most remote places on the planet, taking spectacular photographs of the barren and extreme landscape and the wildlife and people they encountered along the way. Stunning and awesome, this is an epic story of a brave crew and a boat that took them to the ends of the world.

978-1905172641

HB
208 pp
220 x 320 mm
€29.95/£22.95
2008
Maps and photos; full colour

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Granuaile
Sea Queen of Ireland
Anne Chambers.

Granuaile, a Pirate Queen and Chieftain ruled on land and sea in Connaught over 400 years ago. We first meet Granuaile or Grace O’Malley as a young girl. Granuaile’s father is chieftain. She loves the sea and wants to be like her father and know all about sailing. She becomes a better sailor than any of her father’s crew. After many adventures and escapades we finally sail with Granuaile to London for her famous meeting with Queen Elizabeth I.

ISBN-10: 1-905172-10-9
ISBN-13: 978-1905172108

PB
120pp
210 x 148mm
€5.99/£4.99
2006

In Search of Islands
A Life of Conor O’Brien
Judith Hill.

Conor O’Brien made history in 1925 having sailed around the world in his small yacht, Saoirse. But O’Brien wasn’t only a sailor. He climbed with Mallory, Young, Robert Graves and others. In 1914 he shipped guns to Ireland in his first boat, Kelpie, with Erskine Childers, yet served in the Royal Naval Reserve during the First World War. This biography records O’Brien’s eventful life as sailor and mountaineer, fiction and travel writer, designer of boats ands buildings, Irish nationalist and defender of Britain, and celebrated sailor.

978-1905172658

HB
200 pp
277 x 219 mm
€29.99/£19.99
2009
Colour and black & white photos

Ireland’s Lighthouses
A Photo Essay
John Eagle.

The first time he saw Roche’s Point lighthouse marking Cork Harbour, John Eagle knew he was smitten. ‘Coming from an inland town, there was so much excitement in the sea,’ he explains, ‘and lighthouses encap-sulated all that.’ Lighthouses have played an important role on Ireland’s extensive and dramatic coastline since the fifth century, lighting the way for many a cargo and passenger ship while ensuring that those who made their living on the sea made it home safely. During a project that lasted over ten years, John made several daring boat and helicopter trips to capture unique images of these wind-swept, wave-lashed buildings. This book brings together these striking photographs with informative text on their details, locations and how to find them. Ireland’s Lighthouses is sure to delight all those fascinated by these isolated guardians of the coast.

978-1848890244

PB
216 pp
198 x 128 mm
€19.99/£17.99
May 2010
Colour photographs

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Ireland’s Ocean
A Natural History
Michael Viney & Ethna Viney.

Recent marine exploration and research bring dramatic growth in knowledge of the Atlantic Ocean, Celtic and Irish Seas. Description of this underwater landscape is followed by an account of the natural forces influencing the internal world of the sea and its interactions with our climate. This is followed by a guide to the ecology and teeming diversity of life in the ocean. The book concludes with new directions in Ireland’s marine research, and the international problems of fishery control, climate change, wind and wave power.

978-1905172665

HB
208 pp
277 x 219 mm
€29.95/£22.99
2008
Colour and black & white photos and maps

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Ireland's Coastline
Exploring its Nature and Heritage
Richard Nairn.

Foreword by Michael Viney

No part of Ireland is more than 100km from the coast and over half the population live within 10km of it. This book is a comprehensive account of the natural and human history of the Irish coastline. The text is illustrated with aerial and underwater photography and includes colour maps which are easy-to-read guides to tourism and leisure attractions.

978-1905172405

PB
232pp
277 x 219mm
€20.00/£14.99
2007
Full colour maps and photos

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Shackleton's Boat Journey
Frank Worsley.

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Frank Worsley’s remains the classic account of this extraordinary story. The journey began on 1 August 1914 in London and the next the world knew was on 20 May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into a whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia. The fate of Shackleton had alternated with war news in the newspapers. Sir Arhur Conan Doyle even remarked in a speech regarding the British navy: 'We can pass the eight Dreadnoughts, if we are sure of the eight Shackletons.'

978-1848890428

PB
160pp
198 x 128 mm
€8.99/£7.99
May 2010
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The Catalpa Adventure
Escape to Freedom
Vincent McDonnell.

In April 1875 the whaler Catalpa sailed from New Bedford, USA, on a daring mission: to rescue six Fenian prisoners from the toughest prison in Western Australia. The Irishmen had been convicted of treason against the British Queen and were considered traitors. Fearing for their lives, they wrote to comrades in America, pleading to be rescued. On Easter Monday 1876, the prisoners made their bid for freedom. After a hair-raising dash to the coast, they scrambled into a rowing boat which would take them to the waiting Catalpa. But the prisoners’ ordeal wasn’t over – the alarm had been raised. A race against time ensued. Would the prisoners reach sanctuary before they were captured? Was the escape doomed to failure? This is the story of that rescue attempt, a story of courage, endurance and daring, an exciting and thrilling sea story.

978-1848890381

PB
128 pp
210 x 148 mm
€6.99/£5.99
May 2010