Adlard Coles Nautical
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Adlard Coles Nautical is the largest nautical publisher in the world, with over 300 books in print and publishing 40 new titles every year.
The company publishes books on topics of interest to sailors and motorboaters and also ‘landlubbers’ with an interest in the sea. Their list includes almanacs, cruising guides, pilot books and how-to instruction books, as well as large format photographic books, sailing narratives and sea-related humour and trivia books.
Today Adlard Coles Nautical is part of Bloomsbury Publishing.
A & C Black Publishers, which had bought Nautical Books in 1987, acquired the Adlard Coles company in 1990 and merged the two companies into the Adlard Coles Nautical imprint.
In 2000 A & C Black
was bought by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
and in 2003 the company acquired the Reeds Nautical Almanac.
The company publishes books on topics of interest to sailors and motorboaters and also ‘landlubbers’ with an interest in the sea. Their list includes almanacs, cruising guides, pilot books and how-to instruction books, as well as large format photographic books, sailing narratives and sea-related humour and trivia books.
Today Adlard Coles Nautical is part of Bloomsbury Publishing.
History
Championship yachtsman Kaines Adlard Coles founded his own nautical publishing company in 1947. He wrote many of the books, including pilots, sailing narratives and the classic Heavy Weather Sailing, which is still published by the company (in an updated form) to this day.A & C Black Publishers, which had bought Nautical Books in 1987, acquired the Adlard Coles company in 1990 and merged the two companies into the Adlard Coles Nautical imprint.
In 2000 A & C Black
A & C Black
A & C Black is a British book publishing company.The firm was founded in 1807 by Adam and Charles Black in Edinburgh, and moved to the Soho district of London in 1889. In 1851, the firm bought the copyright of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels for £27,000. In 1902 it published P. G...
was bought by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is an independent, London-based publishing house known for literary novels. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. The company's growth over the past decade is primarily attributable to the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. Bloomsbury was named Publisher of...
and in 2003 the company acquired the Reeds Nautical Almanac.
Notable authors
- Maurice and Maralyn BaileyMaurice and Maralyn BaileyMaurice and Maralyn Bailey were a British couple who, in 1973, survived for 117 days on a rubber raft in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued....
- Frank BethwaiteFrank BethwaiteFrank Bethwaite, born in Wanganui, New Zealand in 1920, is an award-winning boat designer, author and former Olympic meteorologist.-Biography:Bethwaite built his first boat as a teenager...
- Dee CaffariDee CaffariDenise "Dee" Caffari MBE is a British sailor, and in 2006 became the first woman to sail single-handedly and non-stop around the world "the wrong way"; westward against the prevailing winds and currents...
- Jimmy CornellJimmy CornellJimmy Cornell is a Romanian-born British yachtsman, bestselling author and the founder of the World Cruising Club.-Biography:Jimmy Cornell was born in Romania in 1940, growing up in Brasov. After studying Economics at the University of Bucharest he emigrated to London, England in 1969 with his...
- Tom CunliffeTom Cunliffe-Biography:Cunliffe learnt how to sail in a 22ft gaff sloop as a teenager on the Norfolk Broads. After nearly being killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of 19 he read Law at university, but chose not to enter the profession. Instead he worked as Mate on a coasting merchant vessel before...
- Frank DyeFrank DyeFrank Dye was a sailor who, in two separate voyages, sailed a Wayfarer class dinghy from the United Kingdom to Iceland and Norway. An account of this was written by Frank and his wife Margaret, published in 1977 as Ocean Crossing Wayfarer...
- Paul Elvstrom
- Maurice GriffithsMaurice GriffithsMaurice Griffiths is a noted yachtsman, boat designer and writer on sailing subjects. In his writing of some 20 book he focuses on the creeks of the Thames Estuary and the English east coast. Books he has written include The Magic of the Swatchways, Swatchways and Little Ships, Sailing on a Small...
- Halsey Herreshoff
- Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
- Tristan JonesTristan JonesTristan Jones was an author and mariner who wrote numerous books and articles, many in the first person, about sailing...
- Sam LlewellynSam LlewellynSam Llewellyn, born in 1948, is a British author of literature for children and adults.-Biography:Sam Llewellyn was born on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, where his ancestors lived for many years. He grew up in Norfolk. He attended Eton College and later St. Catherine's College, Oxford...
- Czesław Marchaj
- Bernard MoitessierBernard MoitessierBernard Moitessier was a renowned French yachtsman and author of books about his voyages and sailing....
- Crispin Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer
- Mike PeytonMike PeytonMike Peyton, born in 1921, is a British cartoonist, described by his biographer as ‘the world’s greatest yachting cartoonist’.-Biography:Mike Peyton was born into a mining family in County Durham, the son of a disabled First World War veteran...
- Libby PurvesLibby PurvesLibby Purves OBE is a British radio presenter, journalist and author. A diplomat's daughter, she was educated at convent schools in Israel, Bangkok, South Africa and France, and then Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells.Purves won a scholarship to St Anne's College, Oxford, where she...
- Joshua SlocumJoshua SlocumJoshua Slocum was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Canadian born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he told the story of this in Sailing Alone Around the World...