Captain Ian Tew, retired Nautilus member, shipmaster and professional salvor. His story, recounted while stranded in Tahiti, provides a fascinating insight into a life of voyage and discovery, of expert seamanship, salvage and courage.
This book provides instructions both in the principals of navigation and in the way to use, with speed and accuracy, all the various techniques involved in putting those principals into practice.
**Book of the month for August 2018** Historian Dr Sam Willis describes the inherent challenges of conflict at sea in the 1700s, the evolution of tactics, and much more in this well researched book.
Did you know that the European Union is the largest consumer of bananas on the planet? Ever wondered where those bananas come from and how they get here? Or what their true price is?