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Author | : Michael J. Rosen |
Publisher | : Creative Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780898129762 |
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A sailor boy named Nick travels the uncharted world of the late 1700s in this illustrated account of the historic three-year voyage of the British vessel Endeavour and its captain, James Cook.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : 9781566602440 |
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"A sailor boy named Nick travels the uncharted world of the late 1700s in this illustrated account of the historic three-year voyage of the British vessel Endeavour and its captain, James Cook"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Amity Gaige |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525656502 |
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two—Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being at sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve – until they are tested by the unforeseen. A transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, Sea Wife is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.
Author | : Hal Roth |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2003-10-20 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780071778725 |
Download How to Sail Around the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller After 50,000 Miles. Taking that book as its starting point, this handsome new volume incorporates the new technologies and discoveries of the last quarter century along with another 150,000 miles of experience. A compendium of mature, time-tested sea wisdom from one of the world's most respected sailing writers, How to Sail Around the World will tell the reader: How to choose and equip a sailboat for long-distance cruising, with an emphasis on simplicity and a modest budget How to plan and conduct a voyage anywhere in the world How to master the arts of navigation, anchoring, and daily life aboard in exotic places How to cope with storms at sea--the most complete and authoritative treatise on this critical topic ever published
Author | : Alayne Main |
Publisher | : Tecumseh, Ont. : Base Camp Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Catamarans |
ISBN | : 9780968454404 |
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Author | : Alan O'Connor |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 104001786X |
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This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has much to tell us about the wider sociology of leisure and sport. The book examines the historical foundations of blue-water sailing as established by naval and colonial shipping, to trace the roots of contemporary sailing and yachting culture. It also examines archives of sailing narratives and cruising guides, as well as the children’s books of Arthur Ransome, arguing that this archival material offers a social rather than a psychological interpretation of the ‘bodily investment’ in sailing. The book uses Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘illusio’ – an investment of time, emotion and body into a worthwhile activity – and ‘habitus’, or lifeworld, alongside contemporary data sets, to examine the yacht club as a social institution, including why many boats never go out on the water, the relationship between yacht clubs and the state, and social issues as manifested in yacht clubs, such as sexism, racism and homophobia. Offering a vigorous sociological critique of yachting and sailing, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of leisure and sport, subcultures, social theory, or social issues in wider society.
Author | : John H. Harland |
Publisher | : Conway |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
Download Seamanship in the Age of Sail Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Numerous successful reprints of contemporary works on rigging and seamanship indicate the breadth of interest in the lost art of handling square-rigged ships. Modelmakers, marine painters and enthusiasts need to know not only how the ships were rigged but how much sail was set in each condition of wind and sea, how the various manoeuvres were carried out, and the intricacies of operations like reefing sails or 'catting' an anchor. Contemporary treatises such as Brady's Kedge Anchor in the USA or Darcy Lever's Sheet Anchor in Britain tell only half the story, for they were training manuals intended to be used at sea in conjunction with practical experiences and often only cover officially-condoned practices. This book, on the other hand, is a modern, objective appraisal of the evidence, concerned with the actualities as much as the theory. The author's facility in a remarkable range of languages has allowed him to study virtually every manual published over a period of nearly four centuries. This gives the book a completely international balance and allows the author to describe for the first time the proper historical development of seamanship among the major navies of the world.
Author | : Nicholas Tomalin |
Publisher | : Quercus |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1681441810 |
Download The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Eric C. Hiscock |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Long regarded as a leading authority in the sailing world, Eric Hiscock provides here a helpful reference for ocean voyaging. Illustrated with numerous photographs and maps, it ranges from tying knots to global weather patterns--the essential resource for any open water sailor.
Author | : Richard Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Sailing |
ISBN | : 9780870215759 |
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