 | Taking on the World by Ellen MacArthur
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The author is my heroine. With spirit and dedication, from Derbyshire to the world's oceans, she inspires you to go for it, whoever you are.
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 | The Towers of Trebizond (Flamingo) by Rose Macaulay
Buy used from: £0.06 A timeless English classic, profound, witty and adorable from the first words, "'Take my camel, dear', said my Aunt Dot". . .
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 | The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.64 Beautifully written. The Wild Places still exist and here is how to discover and navigate them.
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 | Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart
Buy new: £5.30 / Used from: £4.40 Self-deprecating sailing fun. How absolutely not to do it, but he did it.
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 | The Voyage of the "Cap Pilar" by Adrian Seligman
Buy new: £10.40 / Used from: £0.70 Joyous adventure. In the 1930s a young man inherits the money to buy a house. Instead he marries a teenage wife and buys a sailing ship.
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 | Reflections on a Marine Venus by Lawrence Durrell
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Poverty and sunshine after tragedy. A salutary reminder of life on the island of Rhodes in the immediate aftermath of the Aegean War.
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 | Orchids for Aphrodite: Aegean Odyssey by Ursula Haselden
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £30.47 An idyll, rough sides and all. Liveaboards and a Greek cat in a small sailing boat make a wide-ranging exploration of the Aegean coast and islands. A book to savour and refer to.
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 | A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople - From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £1.45 A delightful teenager walks from the Hook of Holland to Budapest in innocent acceptance of life as a "time of gifts".
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 | Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Excruciatingly, laugh-out-loud funny. An American's warmly affectionate take on the English. Not to be missed.
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 | Sea Room by Adam Nicolson
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A young man inherits the Hebridean Shiant Islands inhabited by puffins and black rats. He dredges up a golden torque and is embraced by Viking and Early Christian history.
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