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Author : Jean-Michel Barrault
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574092042
Jean-Michel Barrault is a writer and friend of sailing legend Bernard Moitessier.
Author : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0924486848
Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.
Author : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0924486775
The adventures of Bernard Moitessier--French sailor, explorer and writer, in his own words. This memoir encompasses his childhood in Southeast Asia, his war experience fighting the Viet Minh, and his numerous sea exploits.
Author : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 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died in 1994 and never completed the book, but here it is, meticulously collected from hus many writings, published and unpublished, by his companion Véronique Lerebours Pigeonnière.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 : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574091204
Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.
Author : Bernard Moitessier
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574091549
Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.
Author : Robin Knox-Johnston
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472901187
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili, paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered and brown, her self-steering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudder head, came romping joyously back to Falmouth to a fantastic reception for Robin, who had become the first man to sail round the world non-stop single-handed. By every standard it was an incredible adventure, perhaps the last great uncomputerised journey left to man. Every hazard, every temptation to abandon the astounding voyage came Robin's way, from polluted water tanks, smashed cabin top and collapsed boom to lost self-steering gear and sheered off tiller, and all before the tiny ketch had fought her way to Cape Horn, the point of no return, the fearsome test of any seaman's nerve and determination. A World of My Own is Robin's gripping, uninhibited, moving account of one of the greatest sea adventures of our time. An instant bestseller, it is now reissued for a new generation of readers to be enthralled and inspired.
Author : Adrian Flanagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472912534
Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has extacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water and weather patterns at the bottom of the world and funnels them into a maritime superhighway a mere 500 miles wide, building massive seas and accelerating wind speeds to hurricane strength. Currents rip at rates that defeat powerful engines. These legendarily treacherous conditions were enough to secure Cape Horn's reputation as the ultimate in ocean violence; the supreme test of sailors and ships. It is the oceanic equivalent of the climbers' Everest, and the challenge to some became irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitters with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier and Chay Blyth. This book recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the people who've taken it on and made it round – the Cape Horners' Club. From the first recorded single-hander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterwards and his body never found), we follow these very different protagonists as they pursue the ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is a history of the Cape, from its discovery to its use as a trading corridor until the opening of the Panama Canal, to its more recent role as a pure challenge for the best yachtsmen and yachtswomen in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact, but the pressure for ever-faster times has never been greater.
Author : Nicholas Gray
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781912643684
In 1969, the first two men landed on the moon. There were five other landings, leading to a total of twelve astronauts standing on the moon. A further six circled above while the world watched. Also in 1969, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was the first man to sail solo non-stop around the world south of Cape Horn. He was the eighth of only eleven men who rounded the Horn alone before the final moon landing. Those eleven men had no-one watching them.This dramatic and exciting book, written so vividly you can feel the sea's spray on your face and taste the salt on your lips, tells the story of the lives of those eleven men and their sailing exploits, and compares and contrasts their voyages with what the twelve space astronauts achieved.'One famous astronaut spoke of "e;a small step for man, one great leap for mankind"e;. For those who go to sea, rather than into space, there's no greater step than rounding the Horn.'From the preface, written by Paul Heiney
Author : Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drawing, French
ISBN : 9780870998911
Om portrætter af den franske maler Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Author : Nicholas Tomalin,Ron Hall
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681441818
In early 1968, desperate entrepreneur Donald Crowhurst was trying to sell a nautical navigation device he had developed when he saw that the Sunday Times would be sponsoring the Golden Globe Race, the first ever solo, round-the-world sailing competition. An avid amateur sailor, Crowhurst sensed a marketing opportunity and shocked the world by entering the competition using an untested trimaran of his own design. Shock soon turned to amazement when he quickly took the lead, checking in by radio message from locations far ahead of his seasoned competitors. But on July 10, 1969, roughly eight months after he had sailed from England--and less than two weeks from his expected triumphant return--his wife was informed that his boat, the Teignmouth Electron, had been discovered drifting quietly, abandoned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Crowhurst was missing, assumed drowned. How did he come to such an end when his race had begun with such incredible promise? In this masterpiece of investigative journalism, Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall reconstruct one of the greatest modern stories of one man's descent into self-delusion, public deception, and madness. Based on in-depth interviews with Crowhurst's family and friends, combined with gripping excerpts from his logbooks that revealed (among other things) he had been falsifying his locations all along, Tomalin and Hall paint an unforgettable, haunting portrait of a complex, deeply troubled man and his final fateful journey.
Author : Peter Nichols
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Single-handed sailing
ISBN : 1846684439
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.
Author : Sarah E. Betzer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Portrait painting
ISBN : 0271048751
An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.
Author : Alice Mackrell
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-07
Category : Design
ISBN : 0713488735
"Takes a detailed look at the flow of ideas between the twin worlds of art and fashion, chronicling their close relationship. It charts a history of ideas highlighting key moments, from the Renaissance to the present day, when art and fashion interacted and influenced each other... This close synergy between art and fashion has continued into the 21st century, with artists working with themes that explore clothes and the body, and top fashion designers feted in lavish museum exhibitions."-- Back cover.