Around The World Single Handed
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Around The World Single Handed
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Author : Harry Pidgeon
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Around The World Single Handed written by Harry Pidgeon and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Travel categories.
Fascinating firsthand narrative recounts author's circumnavigation of the globe in 34-foot sailboat he built himself. Tropical islands, natives, exotic ports, storms, near-shipwreck, many other adventures. 61 photographs.
Sailing Alone Around The World
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Author : Joshua Slocum
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
Sailing Alone Around The World written by Joshua Slocum and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
Sailing Alone Around the World is a memoir by Joshua Slocum, a prominent traveler, and explorer. It was published in 1900. The book highlights his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone, so no wonder the book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers. It presents a huge interest to a modern reader either.
Alone Together
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Author : Christian Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-02-28
Alone Together written by Christian Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-28 with categories.
Voyage For Madmen
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Author : Peter Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Release Date : 2011-05
Voyage For Madmen written by Peter Nichols and has been published by Profile Books(GB) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05 with Single-handed sailing categories.
Published to coincide with the Golden Globe Race's 50th AnniversaryIt lay like a gauntlet thrown down; to sail around the world alone and non-stop. No one had ever done it, no one knew if it could be done. In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didn't even know how to sail. They had more in common with Captain Cook or Ferdinand Magellan than with the high-tech, extreme sailors of today, a mere forty years later. It was not the sea or the weather that determined the nature of their voyages but the men they were, and they were as different from one another as Scott from Amundsen. Only one of the nine crossed the finishing line after ten months at sea. The rest encountered despair, sublimity, madness and even death.
Gipsy Moth Circles The World
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Author : Francis Chichester
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-09-27
Gipsy Moth Circles The World written by Francis Chichester and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Sailing Alone Around The World
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Author : Joshua Slocum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-17
Sailing Alone Around The World written by Joshua Slocum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-17 with categories.
Sailing Alone Around the World (1900) is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.
A World Of My Own
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Author : Robin Knox-Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
A World Of My Own written by Robin Knox-Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Voyages around the world categories.
The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst
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Author : Nicholas Tomalin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-12-29
The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst written by Nicholas Tomalin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-29 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'A masterpiece.' New Yorker 'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard 'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday Times In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had developed, and saw the Sunday Times Golden Globe round the world sailing race as the perfect opportunity to showcase his product. Few people knew that he wasn't an experienced deep-water sailor. His progress was so slow that he decided to short-cut the journey, while falsifying his location through radio messages from his supposed course. Everyone following the race thought that he was winning, and a hero's welcome awaited him at home in Britain. But on 10 July 1968, eight months after he set off, his wife was told that his boat had been discovered drifting in mid-Atlantic. Crowhurst was missing, assumed drowned, and there was much speculation that this was one of the great mysteries of the sea. In this masterpiece of investigative journalism, Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall reconstruct one of the greatest hoaxes of our time. From in-depth interviews with Crowhurst's family and friends and telling excerpts from his logbooks, Tomalin and Hall develop a tale of tragic self-delusion and public deception, a haunting portrait of a complex, deeply troubled man and his journey into the heart of darkness.
Why Sailors Can T Swim And Other Marvellous Maritime Curiosities
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Author : Nic Compton
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-07-28
Why Sailors Can T Swim And Other Marvellous Maritime Curiosities written by Nic Compton and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-28 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Why will a sailor never go to sea on Friday 13th? Why are boats always referred to as 'she'? How do you navigate the ocean without a compass? Does the Bermuda Triangle really exist? Why do sailors wear earrings? Did Blackbeard actually exist? Did Nelson really say 'Kiss me, Hardy'? What's the correct way to bury a body at sea? Why is a rope never called a rope? This fascinating collection of maritime folklore and trivia delves into the history, science and culture of the sea, and is packed full of entertaining, surprising and insightful facts, from the delightfully obscure to the amusingly quaint, including everyday expressions that have their origins on board ship. Topics include: sailors and superstitions; ships and shipbuilding; navigation and seamanship; pirates and smugglers; fish and fishermen; coasts and oceans; tides and weather; art and literature of the sea.
Hands Open
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Author : Leslie Powles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Hands Open written by Leslie Powles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Single-handed sailing categories.