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Author |
: Joshua Slocum |
Publisher |
: Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 45 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574092752 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1574092758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World by : Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum¿s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context that will make Slocum¿s masterpiece more accessible to today¿s readers¿sailors and landlubbers alike.
Author |
: Geoffrey Wolff |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2011-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307745453 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307745457 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hard Way Around by : Geoffrey Wolff
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
Author |
: Joshua Slocum |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 1890 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HN2GVA |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (VA Downloads) |
Synopsis Voyage of the Liberdade by : Joshua Slocum
Author |
: Hal Roth |
Publisher |
: McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages |
: 481 |
Release |
: 2003-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780071778725 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0071778721 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Sail Around the World by : Hal Roth
A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller After 50,000 Miles. Taking that book as its starting point, this handsome new volume incorporates the new technologies and discoveries of the last quarter century along with another 150,000 miles of experience. A compendium of mature, time-tested sea wisdom from one of the world's most respected sailing writers, How to Sail Around the World will tell the reader: How to choose and equip a sailboat for long-distance cruising, with an emphasis on simplicity and a modest budget How to plan and conduct a voyage anywhere in the world How to master the arts of navigation, anchoring, and daily life aboard in exotic places How to cope with storms at sea--the most complete and authoritative treatise on this critical topic ever published
Author |
: Joshua Slocum |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2006-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780713679359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0713679352 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sailing Alone Around the World by : Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. This work offers Slocum's account of his epic voyage. It is intended for admirers of his legendary achievement.
Author |
: Francis Chichester |
Publisher |
: Boxtree |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2015-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781743546215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1743546211 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gipsy Moth Circles The World by : Francis Chichester
From time immemorial, few narrative genres have had the power to so stir the emotions or captivate the imagination as the true account of a lone adventurer's triumph over the titanic forces of nature. Among the handful of such tales to emerge in the twentieth century, one of the most enduring surely must be Sir Francis Chichester's account of his solitary, nine-month journey around the world in his 53-foot ketch Gipsy Moth IV. The story of how the sixty-five-year-old navigator singlehandedly circumnavigated the globe, the whole way battling hostile seas as well as his boat's numerous design flaws, is a tale of superhuman tenacity and endurance to be read and reread by sailors and armchair adventurers alike. First published in 1967, just months after the completion of Chichester's historic journey, Gipsy Moth Circles the World was an instant international best-seller. It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure. Francis Chichester's 1967 singlehanded circumnavigation set a blazing record for speed. He completed the voyage with just one stop and 226 days at sea. It was an amazing performance; that he was sixty-five years old made it the more so. Chichester then sat down to write one of the great narratives of modern voyaging. "A remarkable feat, a moving story of conquest by the unquenchable human spirit, a determined old man's gesture of defiance at the modern world. Such was the voyage; his book is a fine account of it with nothing left out."--Alan Villiers, Saturday Review
Author |
: Ellen MacArthur |
Publisher |
: Michael Joseph |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0141026480 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780141026480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race Against Time by : Ellen MacArthur
On February 8th 2004, Ellen MacArthur became the fastest person ever to sail solo round the world. Drawing on logs, emails, sound and video diaries, this book captures the drama, excitement, danger, joy and tears of an extraordinary achievement - in Ellen's own words.
Author |
: Mabel Stock |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1793007373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781793007377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sailing the Ogre by : Mabel Stock
Mabel Stock, her brother Ralph, and their friend buy a 45-foot gaff-rigged sailboat after World War I and from 1919 to 1920 sail it half-way across the world. They are one of the first cruising yachts to transit the Panama Canal in the OGRE sailboat. They go on to sail the South Pacific. This is one of the earliest accounts of a sailing yacht cruise authored by a woman. Mabel Stock joins the ranks of the Captain J. C. Voss and Joshua Slocum as an earlier pioneer of long-distance cruising in small sailing yachts. Mabel Stock and other crew sail from England to Spain, the Canary Islands, Barbados, Panama, the Galapagos, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas, Tahiti, Palmerston Atoll, and Nukualofa, Tonga.This was first published under the title of A LOG OF A WOMAN WANDERER in 1923 by William Heinemann Ltd., London. The 2019 Oxriver Publishing edition edited by Dr. Linus Wilson is annotated to bring out the historic significance of the text. This new version is edited to improve its readability for modern sailors. Mabel Stock died in 1941. This was her only book. In the text is a rare biography of the author created from consulting government documents and other, original source material.
Author |
: Peter Nichols |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061868405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 006186840X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Voyage For Madmen by : Peter Nichols
“An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read.” — Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm In the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, comes a breathtaking oceanic adventure about an obsessive desire to test the limits of human endurance. In 1968 nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held and never before completed: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death. Gorgeously written and meticulously researched by author Peter Nichols, this extraordinary book chronicles the contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms, and of those riveting moments when a decision means the difference between life and death.
Author |
: Derek Lundy |
Publisher |
: Vintage Canada |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2010-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307369895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307369897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Godforsaken Sea by : Derek Lundy
In the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, an intensely gripping account of the round-the-world single-handed yacht race that claimed the life of Canadian sailor Gerry Roufs in a make-or-break dash through 12,000 miles of terror in the Southern Ocean.