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By Ships Alone
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Author : Jeffrey D.. Wallin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
By Ships Alone written by Jeffrey D.. Wallin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Sailing Alone Around The World
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Author : Joshua Slocum
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-16
Sailing Alone Around The World written by Joshua Slocum and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-16 with categories.
Sailing Alone Around The World
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Author : Joshua Slocum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-05
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 2021-04-05 with categories.
Book Excerpt: y too glad to accept, for I had already found that I could not obtain work in the shipyard without first paying fifty dollars to a society, and as for a ship to command--there were not enough ships to go round. Nearly all our tall vessels had been cut down for coal-barges, and were being ignominiously towed by the nose from port to port, while many worthy captains addressed themselves to Sailors' Snug Harbor.The next day I landed at Fairhaven, opposite New Bedford, and found that my friend had something of a joke on me. For seven years the joke had been on him. The "ship" proved to be a very antiquated sloop called the Spray, which the neighbors declared had been built in the year 1. She was affectionately propped up in a field, some distance from salt water, and was covered with canvas. The people of Fairhaven, I hardly need say, are thrifty and observant. For seven years they had asked, "I wonder what Captain Eben Pierce is going to do with the old Spray?" The day I appeared thereRead More
Sailing Alone
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Author : Richard J. King
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-09-07
Sailing Alone written by Richard J. King and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-07 with History categories.
'An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen 'Colourful and inventive' The Times Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out floating on a medium wholly inimical to our existence. But the deep ocean is also a remarkable place on which to think. Richard King's enormously engaging and curious new book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone. Spending weeks and months alone, slowly, quietly and close to the ocean surface is to create the world's largest laboratory: an endlessly changing, capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars and myriad sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening. This is a book for anyone who is fascinated by sailing, solitude and the vast seas that cover so much of our planet.
Sailing Alone Around The World
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Author : Joshua Slocum
language : en
Publisher: Applewood Books
Release Date : 2006-08
Sailing Alone Around The World written by Joshua Slocum and has been published by Applewood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In 1895, at the age of 51, Captain Joshua Slocum left Boston on his sloop Spray. Three years later, after sailing single-handed 46,000 miles around the world, Slocum returned to Newport, Rhode Island. Through this, he was revered by sailors and adventurers around the world. The story of this journey is a classic tale of achievement in the face of overwhelming odds. "Walden without the training wheels." -Nathaniel Philbrick
Alone In A Boat
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Author : John Parker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Alone In A Boat written by John Parker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Readers categories.
An adventure story about a young girl who finds herself stranded alone in a boat and must think quickly to save herself. A level two book in the 'Zipper' series, for primary-school children.
Alone On Land And Sea
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Author : Kent Weatherby
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-04-22
Alone On Land And Sea written by Kent Weatherby and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-22 with categories.
When Frenchman Henri Gener docks his sailboat Monique on the island of Saipan he has two things on his mind sex and adventure. "Always eat the fresh bread first." He says. "To do otherwise is to always eat stale bread." It is the code for his hedonistic lifestyle. With roguish good looks and tough guy appearance he seduces Sydna, a secretary in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Attorney General's office, and makes an enemy of Assistant Attorney General Mark Meriday. On the island 14 miles long and 3 miles wide he encounters politician and racketeer Senator Tobias Bili, and a second man every bit as mysterious as he. Jonathan Cartwright is suave, educated and apparently out of place on the small island. The Frenchman soon becomes ensnared in island intrigue. Falsely accused of murder and with enemies he's made wanting him dead, he flees during the night. His successful escape and hubris leads him to risk stopping at Truk Lagoon, a massive lake in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Located hundreds of miles from Saipan, Truk is the home of Senator Bili. It proves to be a life threatening mistake. Set in Micronesia, Alone on Land and Sea gives the reader a glimpse of the events leading to the dissolution of the United Nations trust territory.
Sailing Alone
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Author : Richard J. King
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2024-05-21
Sailing Alone written by Richard J. King and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with Sports & Recreation categories.
“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.
Sailing Alone Around The World
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Author : Joshua Slocum
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-02-05
Sailing Alone Around The World written by Joshua Slocum and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-05 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities—Youthful fondness for the sea—Master of the ship Northern Light—Loss of the Aquidneck—Return home from Brazil in the canoe Liberdade—The gift of a "ship"—The rebuilding of the Spray-Conundrums in regard to finance and calking—The launching of the Spray.In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fundy on one side and the fertile Annapolis valley on the other. On the northern slope of the range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers, of which many vessels of all classes have been built. The people of this coast, hardy, robust, and strong, are disposed to compete in the world's commerce, and it is nothing against the master mariner if the birthplace mentioned on his certificate be Nova Scotia. I was born in a cold spot, on coldest North Mountain, on a cold February 20, though I am a citizen of the United States—a naturalized Yankee, if it may be said that Nova Scotians are not Yankees in the truest sense of the word. On both sides my family were sailors; and if any Slocum should be found not seafaring, he will show at least an inclination to whittle models of boats and contemplate voyages. My father was the sort of man who, if wrecked on a desolate island, would find his way home, if he had a jack-knife and could find a tree. He was a good judge of a boat, but the old clay farm which some calamity made his was an anchor to him. He was not afraid of a capful of wind, and he never took a back seat at a camp-meeting or a good, old-fashioned revival.
Sailing Alone Around The World
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Author : Capt. Joshua Slocum
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2008-03-01
Sailing Alone Around The World written by Capt. Joshua Slocum and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Captain Joshua Slocum's solo voyage around the world in the 37-foot sloop the Spray in 1895 undoubtedly stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. His classic narrative of this 46,000 mile circumnavigation of the globe continues to enjoy immense popularity throughout the world.