Five narrative non-fiction books include the most recent, Pressure Falling - Short Stories of Stormy Seas and Sailing Gold - Great Moments in Olympic Sailing History, along with the award-winning Spanish Castle to White Night and Risk to Gain. And making up the five is photographer Rick Tomlinson's biography Shooting H2O.
Five non-fiction essays are compiled for the first time into this eBook 'short'. Mark Chisnell's award-winning non-fiction has been as lauded as his novels, and these quick essays pack a typically stylish punch.
Pressure Falling – Short Stories of Stormy Seas is a #1 Sailing book on the Amazon.co.uk Paid chart.
Originally published as a Kindle Original - read more here or click on the cover image to buy.
A celebration of Olympic sailing across more than a century. Spectacular photographs of Olympic heroes, fabulous locations, legendary classes, great stories and the never-ending struggle of an Olympic sailor to make his mark.
Published by Adlard Coles - click here or on the cover image to buy.
Eighty eight men left from the ramparts of Alicante's Castle of Santa Bárbara, but only 36 would journey the full 37,000 miles to finish in the White Nights of St Petersburg. Japan's Black Tide, brutal weather, injuries, and even the credit crunch all took their toll.
This is the story of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09, ripping and roaring through the seven seas - from Spain, past Africa and onto Asia, round the Americas and back to Europe. It's a story of endurance, deprivation and adventure, a story of winners and losers, those who made it and those who didn't.
Originally published by Dakini Media - read more here or click on the cover image to buy.
This is the story of the winning team in the 1997/98 Whitbread Race. A unique insight into Team EF's two boats during their journey around the world. Stomach-churning storms, frustrating calms, broken gear and remarkable details of life onboard are all here - as well as shattered hopes and stunning victories. Combined with the exceptional photography of Rick Tomlinson, this is probably the most vivid pictorial and written record of the world's greatest ocean race ever produced. Independent Sports Book of the Week.
Originally published by Max Strom - read more here or click on the cover image to buy
From Antarctic ice caves to Arctic ice flow, from the top of a hundred-foot mast in the depths of a frigid Southern Ocean to the heat and dust of an African safari.
This book is the story, in words and pictures, of a journey. Rick Tomlinson's journey as a photographer - to places and through time. An extraordinary account, and an exceptional collection - the work of the man who defines Shooting H2O.
Published by Adlard Coles - click here or on the cover image to buy.
