This work has been substantially improved and expanded over the years, with this new edition having more than twice as many pages as the original published over 20 years ago. It sets out in superb detail and with excellent colour photographs all the hazards of the “back of the Wight” as the southern shore of the island is known. The photographs, many of them from the air, show the features at low spring tides and coastal views at chart datum. For anyone contemplating a round-the-island voyage and, taken with its companion volumes Solent Hazards and Solent Tides (also both by Peter Bruce), it certainly should be considered essential reading.

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