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Author : Dennis Puleston
Publisher : London : R. Hart-Davis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215174082
Author : Dennis Puleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Seafaring life
ISBN : 1907109005
Dennis Puleston was born in Essex in 1905, and messing about in boats in the Thames Estuary was in his blood at an early age, and he also became a keen observer of the birds of the Essex mudflats. He studied biology and naval architecture at London University, but before he could convert these assets into a steady career he was seized by the lure of a sea adventure. In 1931 he set sail for the West Indies. It was the beginning of a somewhat haphazard but nevertheless absorbing saga, which included, en route, an attempt not totally unsuccessful - to develop a derelict coconut plantation in the Caribbean. The colourful account of these adventures, 'Blue Water Vagabond', was published in England and America in 1939, and was a big popular success, reprinted several times in the subsequent decades. Last in print in 1995 this new long-awaited edition recaptures the finest travel story-telling anew.
Author : Dennis E. Puleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : OCLC:227256588
Author : Dennis PULESTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1079268568
Author : Svend T. Simonsen
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0138099707
Author : Charles A. Borden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Yachting
ISBN : 0679513574
Author : Barry Lopez
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780735277465
From the National Book Award-winning writer, humanitarian, environmentalist and author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams: a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters--human, animal, and natural--that have shaped his extraordinary life. Poignantly, powerfully, it also asks "How do we move forward?" Taking us nearly from pole to pole--from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth--Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as "one of our finest writers," gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that moves through decades of his life as it describes his travels to six regions of the world: from the Oregon coast where he lives to the northernmost reaches of Canada; to the Galapagos; to the Kenyan desert; to Botany Bay in Australia; and in the resounding last section of this magisterial book, unforgettably to the ice shelves of Antarctica. As he revisits his growing up and these myriad travels, Lopez also probes the long history of humanity's quests and explorations, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada; the colonialists who plundered Central Africa; an Enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific and a Native American emissary who arrived in Japan before it opened to the West. He confronts today's ecotourism in the tropics and visits the haunting remnants of a French colonial prison on Île du Diable in French Guiana. Through these journeys, and friendships forged along the way with scientists, archeologists, artists and local residents, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world. With tenderness and intimacy, Horizon evokes the stillness and the silence of the hottest, the coldest and the most desolate places on the globe. It speaks with beauty and urgency to the invisible ties that unite us; voices concern and frustration alongside humanity and hope; and looks forward to our shared future as much as it looks back at a single life. Revelatory, powerful, profound, this is an epic work of nonfiction that makes you see the world differently: a crowning achievement by one of our most humane voices--one needed now more than ever.
Author : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780593497470
“Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding For readers who dream of travel, yearn to get back out on the road, or want to enrich a journey they’re currently on, The Vagabond’s Way explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel all year long. Each day of the year features a meditation on an aspect of the journey, anchored by words of wisdom from a variety of thinkers—from Stoic philosopher Seneca and poet Maya Angelou to Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Grover from Sesame Street. Iconoclastic travel writer and scholar Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged, harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers’ lives for the better in unexpected ways. The book’s various sections mirror the phases of a trip, including • dreaming and planning the journey: “All life-affecting journeys—and the unexpected wonders they promise—become real the moment you decide they will happen.” • embracing the rhythms of the journey: “The most poignant experiences on the road occur in those quiet moments when we recognize beauty in the ordinary.” • finding richer travel experiences: “Developing an instinct to venture beyond the obvious on the road allows you to see places as mysteries to be investigated.” • expanding your comfort zone: “No moment of instant gratification can compare to savoring an experience that has been earned by enduring the adversity that comes with it.” The Vagabond’s Way encourages you to sustain the mindset of a journey, even when you aren’t able to travel, and affirms that travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement.
Author : Bill Roorbach
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599634524
How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers. Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. This updated 10th anniversary edition gives you the same friendly instruction and stimulating exercises along with updated information on current memoir writing trends, ethics, internet research, and even marketing ideas. You'll discover how to turn your untold life stories into vivid personal essays and riveting memoirs by learning to open up memory, access emotions, shape scenes from experience, develop characters, and research supporting details. This guide will teach you to see your life more clearly and show you why real stories are often the best ones.
Author : Les Weatheritt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781574093568
The chain of islands from the Virgins to the southern Lesser Antilles is one of the most desirable tropical cruising grounds as well as the most accessible for North American and European sailors. The Caribbean Sea is usually benign but the conditions are very different from your home waters—you must learn to sail with the grain of wind, weather, current, and climate, or these forgiving waters will turn into a punishingly rough old sea. This updated third edition of Caribbean Passagemaking is an entertaining mine of information for the sun-soaked passage planner as well as the dreamer back home. Here is the full, vital background to help skipper and crew enjoy sailing the Caribbean islands.
Author : George A. Cevasco,Richard P. Harmond
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801891526
Modern American Environmentalists profiles the lives and contributions of nearly 140 major figures during the twentieth-century environmental movement. Included are iconic environmentalists such as Rachel Carson, E. O. Wilson, Gifford Pinchot, and Al Gore, and important but less expected names, including John Steinbeck and Allen Ginsberg. The entries recount how each individual became active in environmental conservation, detail his or her significant contributions, trace the influence of each on future efforts, and discuss the person's legacy. The individuals selected for the book displayed either an unparalleled commitment to the conservation, preservation, restoration, and enhancement of the natural environment or made a major contribution to the growth of environmentalism during its first century. With a foreword by environmental historian Everett I. Mendolsohn, a time line of key environmental events, a bibliography of groundbreaking works, and an index organized by specialization, this biographical encyclopedia is a handy and complete guide to the major people involved in the modern American environmental movement. -- Mark Harvey
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052001260
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357409
Author : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493042814
"I would like now to write a practical book that will cover three topics: boats, the sea, and the beachcombing life." These were the thought of Bernard Moitessier after he finished writing his last book, Tamata and the Alliance, while in Polynesia. The great master died in 1994 and never completed the book, but here it is, meticulously collected from hus many writings, published and unpublished, by his companion Véronique Lerebours Pigeonnière. Moitessier's notebooks include all the know-how and the 1001 tips of this legendary sailor, the knowledge he acquired on the water, in meeting with sailors, during long passages, and during his many years living on various islands. The first part of the book details how to prepare for an extensive cruise, what kind of boat to choose, the rigging, the sails, the anchors, on deck and below deck. The second part describes the passage: the weather, navigation, watch-keeping, and heavy weather. In the third part, Moitessier takes us to the South Sea islands and shows how to adapt to living on an atoll, gardening, fishing and attaining self-sufficiency.
Author : Les Weatheritt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781408188064
Packed with advice, information, and shows how to enjoy the experience. This edition is the essential read for all sailors and cruisers dreaming of making an Atlantic crossing.