Celebrating its 30th year, The Seven Seas Calendar 2014 will take you on an unforgettable voyage to places of natural beauty, solitude, and silence; and to islands with names like Orkney, Karimata, Fatu Hiva, and Ua Pou. Sail away to where there is only sea and sun and the night sky thick with stars[...]

In this laugh-out-loud tale, two adventurers discover that rare combination: joy and success. Candace, a painter, and Ferenc, a writer, begin a new life near the hill town of Montalcino. They restore a thirteenth-century friary, plant fifteen acres of vines, build a winery, tame a runaway tractor, e[...]

Mexico, El Dia de los Muertos, 1921. Penniless and hunted, Nello, Dugger and his lover Kate make a spectacular moonlit jailbreak and set sail for the paradise of the South Seas. But they fall prey to the intrigue of two mysterious stowaways: Darina, a young Irish escapee from the brutal Magdalene nu[...]

In this humorous, poignant narrative, named a New York Times Notable Book, Ferenc Mate chronicles unbelievable adventures in the most romantic region on Earth: Tuscany. Ferenc and his wife Candace pursue their dream by transforming an abandoned thirteenth-century friary and 70 acres of hills and wat[...]

In the classic format of the first volume, with magnificent color photographs and black-and-white illustrations, the even more spectacular Volume 2 celebrates the giant leaps in technology and design of the last decade and a half. Ferenc Mate analyzes designs and construction while revealing the sec[...]