Set mostly in the 1960s and 1970s when foreign fishing fleets, often doubling as spy ships, hauled vast catches off the U.S. East Coast, The Freedom Plant is a realistic depiction of life aboard American and Soviet fishing vessels during the Cold War. Woven in the mesh of the story are the lives of American fishermen, Soviet spies, the U.S. Navy, the Coast Guard – and one man, determined to find the sister he had lost during an international “incident” a quarter century past. At least that is his story. But is it the truth, or is he a Russian spy sent to exact retribution on a woman, now married to an American fisherman, who had escaped the Soviet fleet so many years ago?

THE FREEDOM PLANT: A Novel of New England Fishermen
by Capt. Kevin M. McCormick

• Soft cover, 416 pages, 6 x 9.
• ISBN 978-1-889901-40-04
• Price $24.95

Available once again, after being out of print for almost half a century, the book that was made into the great World War II film. Gilpatric won an Oscar nomination for the screenplay.

Guy Gilpatric has written a rousing story of men and ships in the North Atlantic in time of war...
— Christian Science Monitor.

Worthy of a place beside the best sea narratives.
— Boston Traveler

ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC

by Guy Gilpatric

• Hard cover, 224 pp.
• ISBN 1-889901-15-6
• Price: $29.95

Now in its 4th printing! Floyd Beaver’s critically-acclaimed book of short stories. Fifteen absorbing tales of the sea from an expert sailor and master storyteller whose fiction depicts the range of maritime experience and adventure.

THE HOMEWARD BOUNDER and Other Sea Stories

by Floyd Beaver

• Soft cover, 256 pp.
• ISBN 0-9637586-3-2
• Price: $14.95

In his second book, Floyd Beaver sets down stories he heard many years ago as a white hat in the U.S. and British navies. As in his earlier work, Beaver brilliantly captures his characters with keen insight and an understanding of the life of ordinary sailors in the years between the wars.

WHITE HATS

Stories of the U.S. Navy Before World War II

by Floyd Beaver

• Soft cover, 256 pp.
• ISBN 1-889901-11-3
• Price: $14.95

A fascinating historical novel, set in San Francisco in 1861, based on actual events. Southern sympathizers laid a bold plot to separate California from the Union and join her to the Confederacy.

The story is packed with atmosphere and intrigue — wealthy adventurers, spies, the Barbary Coast, gold ships, silver lodes, and a Union marshal who had to uncover the plot before California’s gold became Confederate gold. Illustrated with photos from the period.

UNION GOLD

a Story of Old San Francisco

by Mark West

• Soft cover, 288 pp.
• ISBN 1-889901-02-4
• Price: $14.95

THE GLENCANNON MENAGERIE

Eleven classic stories relating to animals, creatures and other critters.

Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer & George Hughes. 224 pp.

• ISBN 1-889901-00-8

GLENCANNON & CO. has fun with the notion of the Inchcliffe Castle as a corporation. The eleven stories in Vol. 3 portray the interactions in the company.

Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer & George Hughes, 224 pp.

• ISBN 1-889901-03-2
• Price: $35

HOLY GLENCANNON!

In Vol. 4, our spirited Chief Engineer displays his grasp of the world’s religions.

Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer, Gordon Grant and Raeburn Van Buren. 224 pp.

• ISBN 1-889901-07-5
• Price: $35

THE ROMANTIC GLENCANNON

Eleven stories involving matters of the heart — although with our larcenous Chief Engineer, there may well be other considerations.

Illustrated by Tony Sarg and Anton Otto Fischer. 224 pp.

• ISBN 1-889901-10-5
• Price: $35

THE ÆSTHETIC GLENCANNON

An aesthete is one who loves beauty for its sake. Mr. Glencannon? Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and to our Chief Engineer, large quantities of Duggan’s Dew (or a well-executed swindle) are beautiful, indeed. These eleven stories go a long way toward proving auld Colin does appreciate the finer things — well, some of them, anyway.

Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer & George Hughes. Hard cover, 224 pp.

• ISBN 1-889901-13-X
• Price: $35

THE CRAFTY GLENCANNON

Wily, sly, cunning. Mr. Glencannon is all of these when it comes to extracting an extra farthing from the hands of the unsuspecting, or sometimes, even the suspecting. This collection of twelve stories portrays Mr. Glencannon at his most devious — and crafty.

Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer, Gordon Grant and George Hughes. Hard cover, 224 pp.

• ISBN 1-889901-17-2
• Price: $35

GLENCANNON MEETS TUGBOAT ANNIE

Two of fiction's most outrageous, conniving and hilarious characters in an epic adventure that traverses the length and breadth of Puget Sound. Including the original Saturday Evening Post illustrations.

by Guy Gilpatric and Norman Reilly Raine

Illustrated by Harold von Schmidt.

• Hard cover, 224 pp.
• ISBN 1-889901-23-7
• Price: $35

THE GLENCANNON ENCYCLOPEDIA

Unusual, different, unique, The Glencannon Encyclopedia is chock-full of facts and information about Mr. Glencannon, his ship, his mates, his version of English (and other languages), his view of the world. In it is every port, bar, saloon and drinking establishment; relatives and characters from every prank and swindle; police and prophets; ladies and laddies; food and drink. How many ways is liquid refreshment referred to in the stories? Look up “drink.” You might be surprised. How many uses for the Dew? What is a gafoozler?

The Encyclopedia includes maps of all the Inchcliffe Castle's voyages and ports of call (with dates); photos, definitions, illustrations — all vurra useful in resolving any spirited discussions. Every entry identifies the story it came from so you can go back, find it, and enjoy it again.

• Hard cover, 2 volumes, 512 pp., 400+ photos & illus.
• ISBN 1-889901-24-5
• Price: $75 the set.