Books about Waterways from Amazon.com

This is the story of a couple's travels on a forty-foot trawler cruising 6300 miles and 145 locks around the eastern part of North America known as America's Great Loop or the Great Circle Cruise. Their nautical ineptitude is evident from the beginning, but pulling from their personal and collective strengths, the authors overcome doubt, a lack of experience, and real and imagined horrors. The odyssey is told the way life hands out its adventures -- sometimes humorously, sometimes tragically, but always memorably. The writing is light and appealing, but there is a serious strain running through the book for those who relish history and descriptions of the landscape. Astute and attentive to detail, they chronicled events and kept an account of expenses, equipment and charting. As a result, the appendix/guidebook is worth the price of the book for anyone interested in planning their cruise. Topics include necessary charts and guidebooks, information on locks, sett! ing an itinerary, resource addresses and websites, details on equipment and the best place to be educated about boating. The book has full-color inserts with black and white photographs interspersed throughout..
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Walking Brooklyn author Adrienne Onofri has created an exceptional guide to and through Brooklyn's most interesting and notable neighborhoods providing a mix of information about culture, history, architecture, places to eat, venues to visit, and more. From a walk through the Russian-influenced Brighton Beach, to the expansive Prospect Park, and out to Red Hook, the site of the future QE2 dock, Walking Brooklyn reveals the many layers and sites of Manhattan's lesser-known neighbor. This two-color book features 30 routes, a clear neighborhood map for each walk, black-and-white photographs, and critical public transportation information for every trip. Route summaries make each walk easy-to-follow, and a "Points of Interest" section outlines a walk's highlights. The 30 walks include trivia about architecture, local culture, and borough history, plus tips on where to dine, have a drink, and shop..
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Terrorism and the Maritime Transportation System gives an alternative definition of terrorism and how we should be postured to fight against it in today's world. After a four-year survey, we have an inside look from the voices of law enforcement, intelligence, security and emergency management personnel. This book discusses areas of the Maritime Transportation System that are unheard in the news, yet challenges the security of our nation. Are we prepared?.
Price: $14.09 [Notify me when price goes down.]

For anyone in-state or planning a visit to Florida in the near future, check out this awesome new book . Fantastic color photos, detailed maps, launch sites and directions to many of the best kayaking, canoeing , camping and fishing trails throughout the state. It covers both salt and fresh water areas throughout the entire state.
Price: $12.54 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Find your way down the Intracoastal Waterway between the Chesapeake Bay and Florida

The Intracoastal Waterway Chartbook provides a complete set of navigational charts (a $350 value) for the 1,090-mile ICW from Norfolk to Miami, as well as major Atlantic inlets, in a single, easy-to-use $70 package. Proven over 16 years and four prior editions, the Chartbook includes a complete listing of waterway bridge and lock characteristics, anchorages and waterway facilities; also pilotage notes, mileage charts, and charts for a picturesque alternate route.

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In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler traveled some 2,400 miles down the Lena River, from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, re-creating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He was searching for primeval beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and self-destructive urges that typify modern Russian culture.

His only companion on this hellish journey detests all humanity, including Tayler. Vadim, Tayler's guide, is a burly Soviet army veteran whose superb skills Tayler needs to survive. As the two navigate roiling white water in howling storms, they eschew lifejackets because the frigid water would kill them before they could swim to shore. Though Tayler has trekked by camel through the Sahara and canoed down the Congo during the revolt against Mobutu, he has never felt as threatened as he does on this trip..
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The only cruising guide of its kind that is updated annually, WATERWAY GUIDE Mid-Atlantic 2008 edition is the indispensable cruising companion for boaters exploring the Chesapeake Bay and Intracoastal Waterway from Mile 0 at Norfolk through Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia to the Florida line as well as the Delmarva Coast and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The spiral-bound guide with bookmarker flaps includes updated, comprehensive navigational information, aerial photography with marked routes, 700 marina listings and locator charts, anchorages, plus helpful cruising information like GPS waypoints, distance charts, planning maps, bridge tables, and Goin Ashore features on favorite ports along the way..
Price: $39.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Great Loop Side Trips: 20 Cruising Adventures on Eastern North America's Waterways is the sequel to the authors' award-winning bestseller, Honey, Let's Get a Boat... : A Cruising Adventure of America's Great Loop. The first book was the story of their Great Loop Cruise of 6300 miles around Eastern North America known as the Great Loop or Great Circle Cruise. The Great Loop is the Interstate; the intersecting waterways are the Blue Highways-- the rivers, lakes and canals that flow into the main stream. Every spring and fall for the last several years the authors hitched up their 25-foot trailerable boat to the pickup and hauled it to places they'd never been before. Written and published in the style of Honey, Let's Get a Boat..., Great Loop Side Trips continues the adventures of discovering Eastern North America from the water's edge. Information on charts, guidebooks, marinas and launch ramps needed to cruise these Side Trips is included. Side Trips cruised are the St. Johns River, Potomac and Patuxant Rivers, Erie Canal, Little Triangle Loop, Lachine Canal, St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, North Channel's North Shore, Wisconsin's Door Peninsula, Upper Mississippi River, Arkansas River, Ohio River and tributaries including the Monongahela, Allegheny and Great Kanawha Rivers, the Cumberland River, Tennessee River and tributaries, Upper Black Warrior River and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway from Mobile to Mexico. Contributing writers include stories of passages on Lake Superior, Lake Michigan's Inland Waterway and an excursion into the Finger Lakes off the Erie Canal..
Price: $21.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]