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Author : Christian Perrissin
Publisher : Humanoids Inc
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781594653452
A sprawling frontier saga rich with adventure and romance, set in Tierra del Fuego at the eve of the 20th century.
Author : Charles H. Lagerbom
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439673201
Cape Horn conjures up images of wind-whipped waters and desperate mariners in frozen rigging. Long recognized as a maritime touchstone for sailors, it marks the spot where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet in one writhing mass. "Doubling" Cape Horn became the ultimate test, earning a prominent place in Maine maritime history. At the end of South America, it shares longitude 67° west exactly with Cutler, Maine, a direct north-south line of seven thousand miles. Maine Cape Horners were recognized by a golden earring. If they did not survive this most difficult journey in the world, the earring covered the costs of their funeral, should the body ever be found. Maritime historian Charles H. Lagerbom traveled to the end of the world to help research this exciting story of bold Mainers and their exhilarating and oftentimes deadly dance with danger.
Author : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574091549
Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.
Author : William F. Stark
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786740055
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 : Charles Davis
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781461741831
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 : Hal Roth
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Chile
ISBN : 0540071447
A tale of high adventure at sea in one of the least known parts of the world.
Author : Christian Perrissin
Publisher : Humanoids Inc
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781594655005
A sprawling frontier saga rich with adventure and romance, set in Tierra del Fuego at the eve of the 20th century.
Author : Christian Perrissin
Publisher : Humanoids Inc
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781594655326
A sprawling frontier saga rich with adventure and romance, set in Tierra del Fuego at the eve of the 20th century.
Author : John Kretschmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1580801625
Legendary account of the author's voyage around Cape Horn in a 32-foot sailboat, sailing east-to-west (thus the Horn is to starboard, or on the right). This is a notoriously difficult and dangerous passage, especially in a boat this size.
Author : Felix Riesenberg
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473388406
Felix Riesenberg history of sea travel around Cape Horn. Begining with Magellan’s magnificent discovery of the strait through to the Pacific at the tip of South America. It is difficult for us to comprehend the feat this was until we note that several other explorers attempted it, but few were able to conquer the incredible hardships, nor manage their men well enough to quell the mutinies. The story of the Cape Horn region, from the days of the first discoverers through the glorious age of sail, including the author’s own experiences; wherein an important geographical discovery is made.
Author : Edward Allcard
Publisher : Imperator Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780956072245
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 : William F. Stark
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786740055
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 : Paul W Simpson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781365112010
Around Cape Horn Once More is the story of the French Bounty Clipper Ship, Montebello. She was built in Nantes, France in 1900 and was lost on the rugged and lonely south coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia in 1906. This book is a tale of the adventures of the Montebello and the men who sailed her around the globe. It brings to light a period of France's maritime history that has never before been told in such thrilling and dramatic detail. ""we heard the roar of breakers, and then we knew that we were close to the land, and there was still no visible light. All hands turned out to put on canvas with a view to heading the vessel off the shore, but we had received the warning too late and within a few minutes we had struck on the fearful rocks. The ship shivered all over with the shock. I shall never forget the sensation it created. She bumped hard several times and threatened to go to pieces at any moment. The seas broke over her from end to end.""
Author : Christian Perrissin
Publisher : Humanoids, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 1594650799
Tierra del Fuego, at the beginning of the 20th century. A vast and desolate land only frequented by gold diggers, English missionaries, Chilean and Argentine military and the age-old Ona, Alacaluf and Yaghan tribes. In this unique world, where the Andean mountains plunge into the Pacific Ocean, several characters with tormented fates will cross paths and clash, on their journey to Cape Horn.A sprawling, nautical, frontier saga, full of adventure and romance, from the author of El Nino.
Author : Anne Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521513791
A narration of dramas played out from 1578 to 2000 in Tierra del Fuego by the native Yamana, Darwin, explorers, sealers, whalers and missionaries.