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A Salty Piece of Land
Cayo Loco is not on any charts, but it's the perfect place to run away from all of your problems. Jimmy Buffett weaves another mesmerizing tale with his first new novel in a decade with an unforgettable Caribbean adventure.
By Jimmy Buffet $27.95 Details

A Trip to the Beach
This is the story of a trip to the beach that never ends - about a couple who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise, and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. Their cookbook "At Blanchard’s Table" demonstrates the results of their adventure and triumph.
By Melinda & Robert Blanchard $13.95 Details

Chasing The Horizon --The Life & Times of a Modern Sea Gypsy
From the author of "Seadogs, Clowns & Gypsies", "Chasing the Horizon" is a delightfully demented celebration of a way of life. It is an outrageously funny, often touching, and continuously shocking tale of a modern sea gypsy.
By Captain Fatty Goodlander $7.95 Details

Dont Stop The Carnival
Don’t stop the carnival is a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about retreating from the madness of modern life and escaping to a tropical paradise. Inspired in part by Herman Wouk’s own experience of living for seven years on an island in the sun, the novel tells the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. Zany mishaps, illicit love, hilarity, and disaster – of a sort particular to the tropics – ensue…
By Herman Wouk $15.95 Details

Escape From Hermit Island
The true story of two women stranded on remote Hermit Island atoll after their sailboat strikes a reef and sinks. At the mercy of the indigenous people, they are forced to live with the locals while they devise a plan to refloat their boat and sail to civilization. With careful planning and the help of the island men, they manage to save their boat from the reef only to find it immediately embroiled in a cargo cult salvage rights dilemma. Subjected to the arcane traditions of the locals, they struggle to keep control of their boat while they repair it in preparation for the dangerous trip to the mainland. It s a unique look into the primitive culture of one of Papua New Guinea’s most isolated civilizations.
By Joy Smith, Leslie Brown $19.95 Details

Fair Wind and Plenty of it
A must-read for lovers of nautical adventure, filled with high seas drama and human intrigue - a fascinating, contemporary account of life aboard a square-rigger, with all its joys, hardships and danger .
By Rigel Crockett $23.95 Details

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