Beyond Cape Horn

Author : Charles Neider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : LCCN:80013288

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Beyond Cape Horn by Charles Neider Pdf

Author : Charles Neider
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781461660859

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Beyond Cape Horn by Charles Neider Pdf

Writer and Antarctic explorer Neider tells of his third trip to the frozen continent, describing the international stations there and the goals they are working toward. Neider also tours the Antarctic landscape, observing the geography and wildlife and evoking it in detail. Devoting scrutiny to the international treaties that protect the continent politically and environmentally, Neider reveals how important those treaties are. Also included in this work are interviews with Antarctic pioneers Sir Charles Wright, Sir Vivian Fuchs, and Laurence Gould.

Author : Don Douglass,Reanne Douglass,Margie Manzoni,Arlene Cook
Publisher : Cave Art Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1934199192

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Beyond Cape Horn by Don Douglass,Reanne Douglass,Margie Manzoni,Arlene Cook Pdf

The adventures of the ketch and crew of Le Dauphin Amical (the Friendly Dolphin) as she sailed across the Atlantic, from Punta Arenas, Chile to Cape Town, South Africa and back to Los Angeles.

Author : William F. Stark
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786740055

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The Last Time Around Cape Horn by William F. Stark Pdf

In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.

Author : Edward Allcard
Publisher : Imperator Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780956072245

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Solo around Cape Horn by Edward Allcard Pdf

The year is 1966, and a pioneering English yachtsman heads south - alone - towards Cape Horn, and into a territory unknown to yachtsmen. This is the tale of a wilderness cruise on the desert coast of Argentina and in the snowy Chilean fjords, but between the two halves, at the summit of the adventure, is the story of a sailor fighting for his life.

Author : Margaret Winslow
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475954336

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Over My Head by Margaret Winslow Pdf

a pioneering female geologist explores the topography of South America and the shifting landscape of women in the sciencesA satisfying journey through 1970s sexual politics and the lands of the southernmost part of the Earth. Kirkus Reviews Somewhere near the bottom edge of the earth, a young woman attempts to balance on a slippery rock ledge. With her back pressed against an overhanging cliff face, her arms too weak to climb, and the tide rising at an alarming rate, there is nowhere to go. So how did she come to be alone on a sinking knife edge in Tierra del Fuego, halfway between the Beagle Channel and Cape Horn, seven thousand miles from New York? In her fascinating travel memoir, Margaret Winslow offers a compelling glimpse into her misadventures as an inexperienced geologist as she begins pioneering field research in southern South America. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Winslow details her unforgettable experiences that include clinging to a ledge alone as the tide rises over her boot tops, facing near-death experiences with killer whales, and encountering an antediluvian creature with a cavernous mouth and yellow teethall while tracing her evolution from an ill-prepared beginner to a competent leader. Over My Head captures one womans historic journeys into uncharted fjords and trackless forests as she attempts to navigate through the almost exclusively male world of field geology and discovers she must learn to rely on her own inner compass in order to survive.

Author : Charles Davis
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781461741831

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Around Cape Horn by Charles Davis Pdf

Charles Davis was one of the world's leading maritime model builders. During the first half of the last century, he was also acclaimed as an artist, historian, and author. This is his recollection of one of his first adventures at sea: sailing out of New York in 1892 on a voyage around Cape Horn, aboard the bark James A. Wright.

Author : Dallas Murphy
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780786738731

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Rounding the Horn by Dallas Murphy Pdf

For as far back as he can remember, Dallas Murphy has been sea-struck. Since he began to read, "besotted by salt-water dreams and nautical language," he studied the lore surrounding a place of mythic proportions: the ever-alluring Cape Horn. And after years of dreaming -- and sailing -- he finally made his voyage there. In this lively, thrilling blend of history, geography, and modern-day adventure, Murphy shows how the myth crossed wakes with his reality. Cape Horn is a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America -- 55 degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West. It's a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty, one that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to Joseph Conrad. For centuries, the small stretch of water between Cape Horn and the Antarctic peninsula was the only gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and it's a place where the storms are bigger, the winds stronger, the seas rougher than anywhere else on earth. Rounding the Horn is the ultimate maritime rite of passage, and in Murphy's hands, it becomes a thrilling, exuberant tour. Weaving together stories of his own nautical adventures with long-lost tales of those who braved the Cape before him -- from Spanish missionaries to Captain Cook -- and interspersed with breathtaking descriptions of the surrounding wilderness, the result is a beautifully crafted, immensely enjoyable read.

Author : David Hays
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786206004

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My Old Man and the Sea by David Hays Pdf

More than a tale of adventure, this touching account of a father and son's rite of passage assesses their complex and evolving relationship. Alone with nothing but the mammoth waves of the Southern Ocean, the unceasing wind, a compass, a sextant, and a pet cat, David and Daniel Hays voyage down the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal, past the Galapagos Islands, beyond Easter Island, and around their desintation--Cape Horn. Father and son alternately narrate, their voices weaving together an engrossing story of travel, exploration, and difficult, dangerous sailing. 16 maps. Line drawings.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:555039983

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Reports of Committees by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574091549

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Cape Horn by Bernard Moitessier Pdf

Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X004399658

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Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949: United Kingdom by United States Pdf

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015036672015

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Statutes at Large ...: (29 v. in 32) Statutes or the United Kingdom, 1801-1806; [1807-1832 by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Alfred Goemaere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:1481000689813

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Place of Antwerp by Alfred Goemaere Pdf

Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433089951739

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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by United States. President Pdf