The Last Time Around Cape Horn

Author : William F. Stark
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Charles Davis
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : David Grann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471183690

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The Wager by David Grann Pdf

From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. While stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780007597840

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The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby Pdf

An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.

Author : David Hays,Daniel Hays
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780060976965

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My Old Man and the Sea by David Hays,Daniel Hays Pdf

A father and son sail 17,000 miles in a 25 foot boat they built together.

Author : New York State Agricultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015077077819

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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by New York State Agricultural Society Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057003580640

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Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2882703

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Documents of the Senate of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Senate Pdf

Author : New York Agricultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:B3022307

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Transactions by New York Agricultural Society Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Nicaragua Canal
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081919292

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Hearings on House Bill 35 (on the Nicaragua Canal) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

These committee hearings were held to discuss House bill 35 which deals with the surveys and costs of the Nicaragua Canal.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Harbors
ISBN : UCAL:$B77474

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Report to Accompany H.R. 7977 ... by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11799684

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dallas Murphy
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Frank Guernsey,Cy Zoerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Horn, Cape (Chile)
ISBN : 1892216205

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Racing the Ice to Cape Horn by Frank Guernsey,Cy Zoerner Pdf

Frank Guernsey lived through this tale of his record- setting 128-day nonstop journey, sailing single-handed from Southern California around Cape Horn to Uruguay in an engineless sailboat, only 24 feet long. Cy Zoerner put this harrowing adventure into words as no other author could. As Frank revealed the story, Cy began to wonder, as would we all, what could drive a man to commit to an outrageously dangerous undertaking in such a small craft. After endless hours discussing life and love with Frank, Cy understood and a story, like no other, poured forth.This will be the best sailing adventure you will ever read and quite possibly the best book you will read for years to come. The greatest fiction can not match the adventures and life of Frank Guernsey".Humans!" The handle of my precious watermaker stopped in my hands. My eyes strained at the black speck on the gray, watery horizon. The misery from the open saltwater sores I sat on, winked out. As I switched on my video recorder, my only companion since I set sail, I repeated, "Humans? After all these months alone..". I glanced at my watch. It was January 2, 10 a.m.

Author : United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic/Topographic Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UCR:31210024849687

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Sailing Directions (planning Guide) for the South Pacific Ocean by United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic/Topographic Center Pdf