Sailing Alone

Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307745453

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The Hard Way Around by Geoffrey Wolff Pdf

In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.

Author : Christian Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099725310X

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Alone Together by Christian Williams Pdf

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375755194

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Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins Pdf

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins at his best, performing the kinds of distinctive poetic maneuvers that have delighted and fascinated so many readers. They may begin in curiosity and end in grief; they may start with irony and end with lyric transformation; they may, and often do, begin with the everyday and end in the infinite. Possessed of a unique voice that is at once plain and melodic, Billy Collins has managed to enrich American poetry while greatly widening the circle of its audience.

Author : J. J. James
Publisher : AMJ Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780956921918

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Sailing Solo Alone by J. J. James Pdf

Sailing Solo Alone is a true story about a man who is a little bored with his life and seeking some kind of excitement, buys a yacht. Three weeks later, he’s been up and down the river on a couple of trips, raised the sail a few times and read a manual or two, then our hero (for want of a better word) decides to take his 18ft over-grown dingy for a 40 mile trip around the coast. The Sea has one attempt at killing him. The boat manages to stay upright, more by luck than anything else. He even finds a safe haven for the night. Does he stay there? No!... He actually sets out to sea at three o'clock in the morning. If you felt the need to be charitable, you may have said it was quite a nice night for a bit of a sail. And it was... at first, but this was the North Sea. The North Sea in October! Leaving the pier heads and the safety of the harbour. Looking to seaward, it was as dark as doomsday out there... And It was only going to get darker. It wouldn't be long before he realised buying a yacht called 'Solo' may not have been one of his better ideas. All a little late by then...

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780713679359

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Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. This work offers Slocum's account of his epic voyage. It is intended for admirers of his legendary achievement.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472921925

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Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Joshua Slocum's epic solo voyage around the world in 1895 in the 37 foot sloop Spray stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. It remains one of the major feats of singlehanded voyaging, and has since been the inspiration for the many who have gone to sea in small boats. Starting from Boston in 1895, by the time he dropped anchor in Newport, Rhode Island over three years after his journey began, he had cruised some 46,000 miles entirely by sail and entirely alone. Slocum's account of his voyage is a classic of sailing literature, acclaimed as an unequalled masterpiece of vital yet disciplined prose. It will be welcomed by admirers of his legendary achievement.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921799396

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Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Joshua Slocum was the first man to circumnavigate the world single-handed. This classic account of his voyage remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time, from encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, to tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574092752

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The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Joshua Slocum¿s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and historical context that will make Slocum¿s masterpiece more accessible to today¿s readers¿sailors and landlubbers alike.

Author : LIZ. CLARK
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1952338220

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Swell by LIZ. CLARK Pdf

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : SeaWolf Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1950435954

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The Illustrated Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray.

Author : Kenichi Horie
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462913343

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Kodoku by Kenichi Horie Pdf

Kodoku is the true story of a young Japanese sailor whose fascination with the art of sailing led him on a solo trans-Pacific journey. First described in a best-selling Japanese book, then an internationally acclaimed motion picture, Kodoku is the full record of the background, conception, preparation, and execution of this daring, yet carefully planned adventure. It includes not only the full text of his original log, but also his supplementary comments, adding detail and highlight to the day-to-day experiences recorded in the log. Also included are charts, plans, and a diagram comparing some of the more noteworthy craft that sailed the open seas in the past. The 61 photographs, including 43 taken by Horie himself during the trip, add a vivid touch to this fascinating story of courage, tenacity, adventure, and humor.

Author : Duncan Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472919748

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Stress-Free Sailing by Duncan Wells Pdf

The vast majority of sailing yacht scenarios comprise a couple sailing the boat together, and needing to carry out all manoeuvres and activities themselves with no help from a back-up crew. Their boat handling, navigation, sail handling, anchoring and mooring skills all have to be carried out both efficiently and effectively, preferably with the minimum of physical effort (to conserve energy). But most sailing technique books assume a crew of 3 or 4, all willing to lend a hand. This book is therefore a first, addressing the most common sailing scenarios that anyone cruising will have to deal with, and providing clever, original, highly effective (and most importantly successfully tried and tested by the author) techniques and solutions for dealing with the huge variety of essential operations on a boat – from sail setting and reefing, to picking up mooring buoys in a variety of wind and tide situations, anchoring, berthing and leaving a pontoon shorthanded, picking up a man overboard, sailing in fog and heavy weather – and even going up the mast. This book will be a godsend to anyone sailing single or shorthanded – including couples with young children who need to be supervised by one parent whilst the other runs the boat. Organised into techniques for different cruising scenarios, the book features step by step sequential photos showing exactly how to approach each situation and carry out the task in hand.

Author : Tania Aebi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781476711607

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Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi Pdf

What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love. Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat, she’d have to sail around the world—alone. She chose the boat, and for the next two and a half years and 27,000 miles, it was her home. With only her cat as companion, she discovered the wondrous beauties of the Great Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the Red Sea. She suffered through a terrifying collision with a tanker in the Mediterranean and a lightning storm off the coast of Gibraltar. And, ultimately, what began with the sheer desire for adventure turned into a spiritual quest as Tania came to terms with her troubled family life, fell in love for the first time, and—most of all—confronted her own needs, desires, dreams, and goals…

Author : Nic Compton
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0071418458

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Sailing Solo by Nic Compton Pdf

A lavish, full-color chronicle of the most grueling single-handed yacht races in the world Ever since Joshua Slocum circumnavigated the globe in 1895-98, sailors have dreamed of taking to the high seas alone. Many have devoted their lives to the dream; some have given their lives. With gorgeous, full-color photography and dramatic prose, Sailing Solo pays homage to the world's greatest sailors as it explores every major single-handed race, from the pioneering Ostar to the grueling Figaro, to the ultimate of all solo competitions, the Vendee Globe, in which sailors surf down40-foot waves at speeds in excess of 20knots, thousands of miles from any help. Single-handed racing has never been more popular. As many as 200,000 people braved winter weather to witness Ellen Macarthur's completion of the Vendee Globe in 2001. The author, a veteran single hander, traces the history of each race, introducing the skippers and the incredible boats they fly solo--offering readers a unique and awe inspiring glimpse into what makes sailors tackle that ultimate of all challenges: sailing alone.

Author : Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557099174

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Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pdf

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