Author: Charles Chapman (master mariner.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The First Ten Years of a Sailor's Life at Sea
Author: Charles Chapman (master mariner.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Tin Can Sailor
Author: C. Raymond CalhounPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
More than 800 sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943.
My Old Man and the Sea
Author: David HaysPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060976969
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A father and son sail 17,000 miles in a 25 foot boat they built together.
Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days
Author: John D. WhiddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library in the Classes of History, Biography, Geography, and Travel
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Second Wind
Author: Nathaniel PhilbrickPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143132091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two. “There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow—the wind howling and spray flying as my Sunfish and I punched through the waves to the finish.” In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living with his family on Nantucket, feeling stranded and longing for that thrill of victory he once felt after winning a national sailing championship in his youth. Was it a midlife crisis? It was certainly a watershed for the journalist-turned-stay-at-home dad, who impulsively decided to throw his hat into the ring, or water, again. With the bemused approval of his wife and children, Philbrick used the off-season on the island as his solitary training ground, sailing his tiny Sunfish to its remotest corners, experiencing the haunting beauty of its tidal creeks, inlets, and wave-battered sandbars. On ponds, bays, rivers, and finally at the championship on a lake in the heartland of America, he sailed through storms and memories, racing for the prize, but finding something unexpected about himself instead.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryTwo Years Before the Mast
Author: Richard Henry DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
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