"Hope tiptoed back into the world, armed with sachets of benign bacteria," writes Nigel Calder is his new book The Green Machines (Putnam, 1986). It crept back into a world tottering on the brink of ...

If you have bought or are thinking of buying a cruising sailboat and heading out into the big blue, the first book you buy is a Bowditch or Dutton to learn something about ocean navigation, then you ...

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