Author: Joshua SlocumPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878058707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Sailing alone around the world. Illustrated by Thomas Forgarty and George Varian. Pan-American ed
Author: Joshua SlocumPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878058707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Sailing Alone
Author: Richard J. KingPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593656040
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
“A masterfully curated collection...You don’t have to be a sailor to be blown away by this fascinating, bighearted book.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, Travels with George, and Second Wind A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history of those who chose to sail across the ocean, in very small boats, alone. Sailing by yourself, out of sight of land, can be invigorating and terrifying, compelling and tedious - and sometimes all of the above in one morning. But it is also a wide expanse of time in which to think. Sailing Alone tells the story of some of the remarkable people who, over the last four centuries, have spent weeks and months, moving slowly over the world's largest laboratory: a capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars, and countless sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening. Richard J. King profiles characters famous, diverse, international, and obscure, from Joshua Slocum of 1898 to modern teenagers daring to take the challenge. They see strange hallucinations, lie to us (and themselves) on their travel logs, encounter sharks, befriend birds, and experience ESP, all part of the unnerving reality of extended isolation. And some disappear altogether. Sailing Alone also recounts the author's own nearly catastrophic solo crossing of the Atlantic, and the mystery of his inexplicable survival one sunny afternoon. An enormously engaging new book for skippers and armchair voyagers alike.
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Bookseller
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: The Illustrated Sailing Alone Around the World
Author: Joshua SlocumPublisher: SeaWolf Press
ISBN: 9781950435951
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray.
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