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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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IRELAND: CONNEMARA

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The Pirate Queen, In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea

The Pirate Queen, In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea


by Barbara Sjoholm

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 355 PAGES

Tales of plucky female pirates and explorers in the North Atlantic. Long interested in women and seafaring, Sjoholm journeyed from Ireland out to the Shetland and Faroe islands, Iceland and Norway collecting folk-tales, stories and historical accounts of these remarkable seafaring heroines. (IRE135, $16.95)

The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate

The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate


by Alan Gold

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

Gold's rousing tale of grace O'Malley, starring the 16th-century Irish pirate, as bold as she is beautiful. Gold sets his seafaring tale in Ireland and England from 1544 to 1588, the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. (IRE215, $14.00)

Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives

Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives


by David Cordingly

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2007
  • PAPER

A fascinating survey of women who went to sea, as wives, crossdressing cabin boys or even lighthouse keepers, during the age of sail. (OCE94, $17.00)

Connemara, Listening to the Wind

Connemara, Listening to the Wind


by Tim Robinson

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Robinson's bewitching essays capture the wild beauty, local legends and long-forgotten history of this captivating corner of Western Ireland. (IRE37, $16.00)

 

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