When you want to find offshore book, you may need to consider between many choices. Finding the best offshore book is not an easy task. In this post, we create a very short list about top 8 the best offshore book for you. You can check detail product features, product specifications and also our voting for each product. Let’s start with following top 8 offshore book:
Best offshore book
1. Offshore: A Novel
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Offers a portrait of a group of eccentrics living in houseboats on the river Thames and describes how their disparate lives intertwine and complicate matters for everyone.2. A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Hawaii: The Main Islands and Offshore Waters (A Latitude 20 Book)
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Winner of the 2011 Ka Palapala Pookela Award of Excellence in Natural Science, Hawaii Book Publishers Association
Hawaii is home to some of the most beautiful and sought after birds in the world. From the offshore waters, where graceful seabirds glide on the cool, refreshing trade winds, to the lush ancient forests of the mountains, where colorful endemic honeycreepers reside, Hawaiis birds are wonderfully diverse. Introduced species and long-distance migrants contribute to the splendid assortment. Some island bird species are extremely abundant and instantly familiar since we encounter them daily in our outdoor activities. Others are so rare they are glimpsed only once in a lifetime. In these magnificent islands there is something for birders of every sort.
Superbly illustrated in color by the author and Jack Jeffrey, two of Hawaiis best nature photographers, this guide includes nearly every species of bird on land and at sea in the main Hawaiian Islands. In total, 170 species or subspecies are described and illustrated. This comprehensive work is an essential resource for those who are interested in identifying, locating, and learning more about the avifauna of Hawaii.
3. Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring (Everyman's Library)
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)After publishing her first novel in 1977 at the age of sixty-one, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) went on to become one of the most remarkable and highly acclaimed English writers of the last century. Each of the three novels gathered here vividly and unforgettably conjures up an entire world.
The Booker Prize-winning novel Offshore limns the marginal existence of an eccentric assortment of barge dwellers on the Thames in the early 1960s, a group of misfits who are drawn to life on the muddy river in exile from the world of the landlocked. Human Voices takes us behind the scenes at the BBC during World War II, as world-weary directors and nubile young assistants attempt to save Britains heritage and keep Britons calm in the face of a feared German invasion. In The Beginning of Spring, a struggling English printer living in Moscow in 1913 is abandoned by his wife and left alone to care for his three young children in the face of the impending revolution.
Fitzgerald is a genius of the relevant detail and the deftly sketched context, and these narrative gems are marvels of compassion, wit, and piercing insight.
4. Dick Carter: Yacht Designer In the Golden Age of Offshore Racing
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From the Introduction by John Rousmaniere:
John Rousmaniere is author, of Fastnet, Force 10, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, A Berth to Bermuda, After the Storm, and other books about sailing and the sea.
For years I have said that sailboat racing is like malaria, writes Dick Carter in his stimulating memoir. You never get rid of it.
That's one of the rules of life in this very entertaining and instructive memoir of a man obsessed not only with boats but also with the lure and challenge of radical innovation. As he says, I love examples of ideas that are counter-intuitive. Put such a mind in a sailboat and there's no telling what will happen. When he came out of nowhere in 1965, The New York Times called Dick the mystery man in American yachting. A young businessman and Yale graduate from inland New Hampshire who first sailed on a small lake, he transformed himself through a spectacular act of will into a brilliant, daring yacht racer and designer. He changed his sport, creating new types of boats and winning big races while surviving daring voyages.
It was a moment engraved in my memory, he writes of one of these adventures. For the first time in my life, I was leaving the civilized world and moving into Mother Nature's vast realm all to be experienced from the deck of a 34-footer.
Despite his lack of formal training in naval architecture, Dick Carter made himself into a skilled yacht designer with radical ideas and a record of daring and continuing success. Blessed with what sailors call an eye for a boatan intuitive understanding of why some boats sail faster and better than others and the ability to transform that understanding into new expressionshe also had an insight into how intuition blossoms when it is teamed with a probing mind and personal courage.
When he dared not only to build a boat to his design, Rabbit, but to enter the high-tech, cutting-edge, elite regattas run by the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Royal Ocean Racing Club, Dick Carter surprised everybody by winning the prestigious Fastnet Race. Over the next decade he and his boats dominated the intensely competitive new golden age of Grand Prix yacht racing, sometimes in American waters but mostly in the windy, rough, cold English Channel and the North Sea. In Rabbit and other boats, he and his loyal crews beat the world's best sailors and yacht designers, meanwhile establishing a new look and innovative technology for racing yachts.
His influence reached all the way to the America's Cup, whose breakthrough 1967 winner, Intrepid (designed by Olin Stephens, the world's most successful yacht designer) sported an important new feature that Dick had developed on his own, the trim tab. When the sailing world decided to change its design rating rules, he was so widely respected that he was appointed to the planning committee alongside Stephens.
This story of the underdog sailor taking on the world (and conquering it, too) is often surprisingand also roundly entertaining as well as inspiring and instructive. His approach was straightforward: challenge the common wisdom with a daring that he described this way: Once a challenge is met, or met successfully, that is enough for me.
The last challenge was the first he could not successfully meetthe petroleum crisis of the 1970s that depleted economies and nearly destroyed the boating business. Dick Carter, just a decade after he burst on the scene, retired from boats, and moved on to a whole other life so completely that, before long, many of his old friends and shipmates were sure he has died.
Now Dick is he is back, with his remarkable story.
5. Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook: A Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors
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The most comprehensive and helpful guide ever written for selecting and equipping a cruising sailboatWhether youre a coastal or offshore cruiser, youll find your most pressing concerns treated with the know-how that makes for skillful, confident cruising in Nigel Calders Cruising Handbook. The author -- one of the most respected marine how-to authors on either side of the Atlantic, and author of the universally admired Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual, -- walks you through all key technical and practical aspects of modern cruising systems and equipment, providing you with a summary of the skills necessary for safe, enjoyable sailing.
The first half of the book includes an easy-to-use tabular method for evaluating a boat's suitability for cruising; ideas for workable deck and interior lay-outs and organization; how to choose and configure suitable boat systems for cruising; and how to install gear for trouble free operation.
The book's second half teaches you boat handling skills; core navigational expertise; anchoring techniques; weather understanding; heavy weather expertise; and specific skills for long-term and long-distance cruising.
6. Handbook of Offshore Cruising: The Dream and Reality of Modern Ocean Cruising
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Since this book was first published in 1994, it has established itself as the most complete, most reliable, and most-read guide for those planning to sail across the oceans. Now in a handy paperback, this second edition is both completely updated with reference to the ever-changing technology, especially electronics, and also maintains the clarity of style and organization that won the first edition so much praise from professionals and readers alike. For easy reference, this important handbook is divided into four parts: The Boat, The Systems and Equipment, The Voyage and In Port. Included are sections on: building or buying a boat, size considerations, rig and hull design, cruising multihulls, construction materials, spars and rigging, deck layout and equipment, cockpit, below decks, engines, plumbing, electrics and electronics, sails, and self-steerage systems. Security, maintenance, health and psychological issues are also covered. The convenient paperback edition of this indispensable reference is a must for anyone who is ready to get serious about cruising. Don't leave port without it.7. Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
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A book about a tiny island with a huge history, from theNew York Times bestselling author ofValiant Ambitionand In the Hurricane's Eye.For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispensable book. Russell Baker
In his first book of history, Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world. Beyond its charm, quaint local traditions, and whaling yarns, Philbrick explores the origins of Nantucket in this comprehensive history. From the English settlers who thought they were purchasing a Native American ghost town but actually found a fully realized society, through the rise and fall of the then thriving whaling industry, the story of Nantucket is a truly unique chapter of American history.
8. Handbook of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
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Handbook of Offshore Oil and GasOperations is an authoritative source providing extensive up-to-date coverage of the technology used in the exploration, drilling, production, and operations in an offshore setting.Offshore oil and gas activity is growing atan expansive rate and this must-have training guide covers thefull spectrumincluding geology, types of platforms, exploration methods, production and enhanced recovery methods, pipelines, and envinronmental managment and impact, specifically worldwide advances in study, control, and prevention of the industry's impact on the marine environment and its living resources. In addition, this book provides ago-to glossary for quick reference. Handbook of Offshore Oil and GasOperations empowers oil and gas engineers and managers tounderstand and captureon one of the fastest growing markets in the energy sector today.- Quickly become familiar with theoil and gas offshore industry, including deepwater operations
- Understand the full spectrum of the business, including environmental impacts and future challenges
- Gain knowledge and exposure on critical standards and real-world case studies
