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Sea Narratives
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North
to the Night : A Year in the Arctic Ice ~
A long-time adventure sailor, Simon is a veteran of
expeditions in the Southern Hemisphere, including treks into Borneo. But
it was the romance of the Arctic that called him for what was to be his
and his wife Diana's last major exploration. It took them nearly two
years to prepare, including finding the 36-foot steel boat that was to
be their home and anchoring for a winter in Maine to practice
cold-weather survival.
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Sailing
Alone Around the World ~
Written before the turn of the century, SAILING ALONE
AROUND THE WORLD is a classic tale of the sea. Slocum was 51 when he
circled the globe in a 36-foot craft of his own construction. This book
is a "must" for those who have never read it, also for
armchair sailors who navigated its pages long ago and now wish to relive
the story in its recorded form. Guaranteed to interest any young person
in those twin delights, the sea and good literature. |
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Sailing
Promise: Around the World on a Catamaran
Will You Marry Me... And Sail Around the World? Alayne Main
was 28 years old with an exciting medical career and minimal sailing
experience, but she lived up to her sailing promise. She and her husband
quit their jobs, bought a 33-foot catamaran and blithely sailed away!
The challenges were immense - storms at sea, a collision with a whale
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Rough
Water : Stories of Survival from the Sea
In this unique anthology, Clint Willis gives readers some of
the best sea stories of all time. Included are excerpts from R. H.
Dana's classic Two Years Before the Mast, a shipwreck survivor's 74-day
ordeal aboard an inflatable life raft; an eyewitness account of the
Titanic disaster; a dramatic rescue at sea in a Force-12 storm; a solo
circumnavigation of Antarctica, and a one-man cruise through the Roaring
Forties. Rough Water delivers page after page of high adventure amid
gales, swells, surges, shoals, icebergs, fog banks, sharks, and
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Maiden
Voyage
Dramatic story of youngest woman sailor to circle the globe
At the age of 18, Tania Aebi's troubled background had left her
estranged from her family, with few plans for the future outside of a
vague ambition to be a writer. Then, her father offered to give her a
sailboat -- if she would agree to leave her friends behind and sail
around the world alone. This book tells the story of her 2 1/2 year
voyage, a trip as dramatic and touching
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