9 must-read nonfiction books like The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging by Brion Toss

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The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging

By: Brion Toss

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Combining and updating the renowned Rigger's Apprentice and Rigger's Locker , meets the changing fa…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging by Brion Toss , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Sailing Alone around the World

By: Joshua Slocum

4.15

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas—the first man to circumnavigate the world… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books w…"

-Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

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2. Steve Jobs

By: Walter Isaacson

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From best-selling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Job… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Marine Diesel Engines: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair

By: Nigel Calder

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Praise for this boating classic: "The most up-to-date and readable book we've seen on the subject.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • reference
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4. The Long Way

By: Bernard Moitessier

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden … read more

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  • nonfiction

5. Children of Time

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more

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6. Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

By: Nigel Calder

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Do yourself a favor: if you own a boat, you should also own the Boatowner's Mechanical & Electrical… read more

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7. The Annapolis Book of Seamanship

By: Mark Smith , John Rousmaniere

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since the publication of the widely hailed first edition in 1983, The Annapolis Book of Seamanshiph… read more

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8. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Crossing Pirate Waters (Escape Series Book 2)

By: Julie Bradley

4.59

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

You don’t have to know a spinnaker from a mainsail to enjoy this adventure book. Join Glen and Juli… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Boy Who Fell to Shore: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Thor Tangvald

By: Charles J. Doane

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Born at sea aboard his father's hand-built sailboat and raised barefoot on her wood decks, Thomas T… read more

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12. The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging

By: Brion Toss

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Combining and updating the renowned Rigger's Apprentice and Rigger's Locker , meets the changing fa… read more

Similar categories in Brion Toss's The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging book and Brion Toss's The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging

  • nonfiction
  • reference
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13. Illustrated Sail & Rig Tuning: Genoa & mainsail trim, spinnaker & gennaker, rig tuning (Illustrated Nautical Manuals)

By: Ivar Dedekam

4.34

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A beautifully, uniquely illustrated nautical guide to how to trim your sails and rig for maximum pe… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 68th Edition (Chapman Piloting and Seamanship)

By: Chapman

4.50

Format: 2077 pages, Kindle Edition

The leading authoritative boating reference for close to a century. Includes up-to-date information… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Brave or Stupid

By: Tracey Christiansen

4.63

Format: 563 pages, Kindle Edition

When you read about someone sailing around the world, it’s usually a dotcom millionaire or a profes… read more

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9 Top nonfiction books like Chapman Piloting & Seamanship 68th Edition (Chapman Piloting and Seamanship) by Chapman

Transform Your Habits

Sailing Alone around the World

Joshua Slocum

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Long Way

Bernard Moitessier

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Michael Pollan

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

4.30

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