Sailing Around The World Book
Great Sailing Vacation in the United States
Planning for a great sailing vacation in the US? Always make your safety, comfort, and legalities as the main priorities. For those who don’t have any sailing experience in the US or to any other part of the world, it is best to rent a crewed boat wherein everything will be provided to you. The crew will ensure your safety because they are experienced enough to handle all kinds of emergencies in the middle of the sea.
A crewed boat also ensures that you have everything that you need from accommodation, food, and even entertainment are available. Here, all you have to do is to sit back and relax and enjoy the beauty of the surroundings while listening to the relaxing waters as it laps to the side of the boat.
If you want more adventure, opt for a bareboat. A “bareboat” is a boat that you can rent filled with all the things and amenities needed for sailing without the crew. If you go on sailing vacations in the US using bareboat, it means that you need to have sailing experience.
If you think that your knowledge in sailing is not enough despite your experience, you can enroll in various sailing lessons to enrich the information that you have. During lessons, you will be given first hand information on sailing and hands-on experience on it. It is always best to attend sailing lessons before going on sailing vacations in the US to ensure that you would know what and what not to do especially in cases of emergency.
Packing tips for sailing vacation in the US
Aside from educating yourself about your sailing destination, one of the things that you should consider before going on sailing vacations in the US is what are the things to pack. Bringing the things that you need would ensure that you will not miss out on something that is an integral part of your whole trip.
The following are just some of the things that you need to pack for sailing vacations in the US:
1. Travel documents – Since you’ll be going to another territory, you will need documents that will support your identity such as passport and the sailing charter paperwork. Upon booking for sailing vacations in the US, you will be given a confirmation packet.Bring photocopies of your travel documents in case of emergency or in cases it will be needed during visit to different islands.
2. Storage – This should always be kept in mind because you need to limit it as much as possible. Bear in mind that hard-sided suitcases are not ideal since they are big and bulky. Opt for durable duffel bags because these can be folded when not in use.
3. What to wear – Depending on the average weather condition of your vacation destination, the number of clothes should also be kept to a minimum. It is ideal to keep a pair of shorts, shirts, walking shoes, sandals, swimsuit, underwear sleepwear, toiletries, and towels. The number will depend on the number of days of your stay.
4. Easy to carry bag – This is vital especially if you sailing vacations in the US involve land tour or travel. This easy to carry bag will hold your basic necessities such as wallet with money, a pair of shades, passport, several guide books, bottled water, a bottle of sunscreen for sun protection, powder case, lip balm and other small items you will be needing outside.
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Sailing Alone Around the World (Barnes & Noble Classics) $1.00 Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to s… |
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Around-the-World Sailing Guide: Sailing Directions $14.18 A detailed planning itinerary for your voyage around the world. The routes, and the seasons clearly laid out for all to understand. So you want to sail around the world? Which way do you go? What is the “milk run” ? How? When? Where to go? What are the sailing seasons ? The mental test, the boat, the weather, the crew, the equipment, the food, the philosophy, the lifestyle, the tricks, the anch… |
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True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and Unassisted Around the World $4.48 On May 15, 2010, after 210 days at sea and more than 22,000 nautical miles, 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed her 33-foot boat triumphantly back to land. She had done it. She was the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted, and nonstop around the world. Jessica spent years preparing for this moment, years focused on achieving her dream. Yet only eight months before, she collided with a 63,000-ton… |
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Sailing Around the World [VHS] $9.28 Ahoy there me hearties! Join Captain Feathersword, his shipmates and The Wiggles®, as they go Sailing Around the World in an amazing adventure filmed on location! From “London Town” to Sicily and San Francisco, everyone will have a great time on this wiggly, giggly global trip! So climb aboard the SS Feathersword and hoist the mains ail as The Wiggles take you to sing in Sydney and move to the be… |
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Around Cape Horn – Capt. Irving Johnson Sailing DVD $25.93 Unique footage shot by the late Capt. Irving Johnson during his 1929 rounding of Cape Horn aboard a square rigger. Spectacular…. |
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Lionheart – The Jesse Martin Story $1.45 As a 17-year-old teenager, Jesse Martin set out on a journey to fulfill a dream few thought possible. By circumnavigating the world in his 34-foot yacht, Lionheart, Jesse would become the youngest person in history to sail around the world solo, nonstop and unassisted. It is an intimate record of his days alone at sea, transporting viewers onto the deck of Lionheart through Jesse’s unique and cand… |
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Sailing Around the World $1.00 The Wiggles must have gotten it in their heads that all play and no work makes for a bunch of dull Aussie boys. How else to explain Sailing Around the World, which skimps on rudderless, ridiculous good fun in favor of a bunch of two-minute geography lessons? Where once the blokes good-naturedly shook their sillies out and sung the humble praises of fruit salad, they now find themselves compelled t… |
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40,000 Miles In A Canoe $19.95 “I have found every word of Voss’s concerning ships and the sea to be pure gold.”—Weston Martyr, sailing authorOn May 27, 1901, Captain John C. Voss, accompanied by journalist Norman Luxton, put to sea in the Tilikum, a 38-foot dugout canoe. Joshua Slocum’s best-sell, Sailing Alone Around the World, had been published the year before, and Voss and Luxton’s goal was to make a name for themselves by circling the globe in a vessel smaller than Slocum’s Spray. Tilikum was just 5 feet wide and drew a mere 24 inches fully loaded. Outfitted by Voss with a deck, a small keel, three stubby masts, a cockpit for the helmsman, and a tiny cabin, Voss’s canoe was one of the oddest craft ever to attempt a deep-sea voyage. Her crew, too, was mismatched. Voss was a professional sailor who had been pushed ashore by the decline of commercial sail. Luxton, a nautical innocent, was along to record the voyage for posterity. More than three years later, Tilikum arrived in England after a voyage of 40,000 miles—a journey fraught with perilous and exotic adventures on both land and sea. Luxton abandoned the boat in the South Seas, and his replacement was lost overboard in a storm. But Voss carried on, and in 1912 – 13 he wrote The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss, the book that established him alongside Slocum as one of the greatest small-boat navigators of all time. This volume in The Sailor’s Classics restores in its entirety Captain Voss’s account of his adventure in the Tilikum, together with the more noteworthy of the two remaining narratives in Voss’s original book, a voyage through a typhoon in the 19-foot yawl Sea Queen. In the words of Jonathan Raban, “to possess this book is to have at your elbow your own compact fount of growling sea-wisdom, the classic primer on small-boat handling under all imaginable conditions.” For sailors and armchair adventurers alike, 40,000 Miles in a Canoe is |
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A Passion for the Sea $26.66 One of the most influential cruising yachtsmen writing today, Jimmy Cornell has sailed over 200,000 miles in more than thirty years on the oceans, including three circumnavigations and voyages to the Arctic and Antarctic. His successful guide to sailing around the world, World Cruising Routes, has helped many aspirational voyagers turn their dreams into reality and follow in his footsteps.In this new book, Jimmy tells the story of his own travels in great detail. Decades of offshore sailing experience are distilled into this colorful account, which is packed with valuable observations, spiced up with entertaining anecdotes, and illustrated with brilliant photos from along the way.Much more than just an exciting report of his adventures, Jimmy draws on his experiences to share practical tips for those inspired to follow his example, along with important technical information. |
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A Voyage In The Sunbeam – A Family Sailing Around The World $15 Annie, Lady Brassey was a very popular Victorian author. She travelled with her husband, Thomas and their four children aboard their yacht, the Sunbeam. Their eleven month sailing trip around the world in 1876-7 was inmortalized in Anna’s book “A Voyage in the Sunbeam”. The book ran through many English editions and was translated into many other languages.During her travels, lady Brassey collected many objects of the different cultures they visited. Her large collection of ethnographic and natural history objects were originally shown in a museum at her London house but they were moved eventually to Hastings Museum in 1919.Annie Brassey spent the last ten years of her life mainly at sea. She died suddenly of malaria on the way home from India and Australia in 1887 and was buried at sea at the age of 48. |
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A Year of Adventures $9.99 A Year of Adventures is the inspirational planning tool to take you all around the world in pursuit of action. Discover a whole range of extraordinary experiences, including snow biking in France, volcano boarding in Nicaragua, kayaking with orcas in Canada and sailing the Whitsunday Islands. Choose from over 250 experiences in 115 countries, some to challenge you, some to enjoy at a leisurely pace, and catering to all fitness levels. After all, adventure doesn’t need to mean hardship. Be inspired and plan a year to remember!-Organized by month and week to allow you to plan the best adventure at the best time of year. -Country and Activity indexes provide easy access: search by the destination of your next holiday, or by the adventure you want to experience. -Includes links for further information on adventure events throughout the book. |
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Around the world sailing record $19.95 Jesse Russell (Editor), Ronald Cohn (Editor),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Book on Demand |
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Around-The-World Sailing Guide $9.99 Alan Phillips,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Phillips, Alan |
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Aurora Model Kits $19.64 Aurora’s plastic models of classic Hollywood movie monsters are enduring pop culture standards. Kids and adults around the world recognize Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man, and the Mummy. Although monsters are Aurora’s most famous products, the company created model kits of all varieties, including historic sailing ships, sports cars, moon rockets, military and commercial aircraft, TV stars, comic book heroes, wildlife scenes, knights, and much more, all included in this book. Over 450 color photographs enhance this comprehensive history and guide to Aurora models. The Aurora empire was once the world’s largest producer of hobby products. Here, corporation executives, sculptors, artists, and engineers who created Aurora’s models tell the story in their own words. Every model Aurora made – and some that never went into production – are described in detail, with information on reissues and current collectors’ market values. Collectors maintain a brisk trade in vintage Aurora plastic, and new companies continue to reissue some of Aurora’s timeless kits. |
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Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833 $19 Charles Tyng’s quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times at the begining of the nineteenth century. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor. Before the Wind has been hailed as a superb contribution to seafaring literature, alongside such books as Two Years Before the Mast and the novels of Patrick O’Brian.Both Tyng’s life and the way he recounts his years at sea are full of wonder: He survives shipwrecks, squalls, and pirates. He makes and loses fortunes in tea, sugar, and cotton. He meets Lord Byron as well as the British princess (later queen) Victoria. Sailors, armchair travelers, history buffs, and lovers of pulse-quickening maritime stories will find this book as seductive as the siren song of the sea.”Rings with authenticity and nerve . . . A novelist’s eye for detail and a storyteller’s flair make this yarn a page turner.” –The New York Times Book Review”Original and rich.” –New York Newsday”No admirer of Americana or sailing ships should miss.”–Atlantic MonthlyCharles Tyng was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1801 and died in Rhode Island in 1879.Susan Fels, his great-great-granddaughter, is an editor and indexer in Washington, D.C.William La Moy is the James Duncan Phillips Librarian at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.Thomas Philbrick, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh, has edited critical editions of the works of James Fenimore Cooper, JoshuaSlocum, and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
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Bread and Dreams $9.99 “A lovely book.” raved Anne Rivers Siddons about Mina, Jonatha Ceely’s luminous debut novel. “Suspenseful…evocative…meticulously researched,” praised the Boston Globe. Now Ceely returns to the tumultuous mid-nineteenth- century landscape and the world of an unforgettable Irish girl named Mina Pigot. Appealing to mind, sense, and emotion, Bread and Dreams is a sumptuous novel of love and food, loss, hunger, and hope.In 1848, a time when sail was giving way to the swift power of steam, Mina boards the sailing ship Victoria, headed for a new life in America. Orphaned and alone, under the protection of her friend Mr. Serle, Mina is, like the Victoria, at the mercy of the winds of fate. But what awaits both Mina and her protector in New York is a world rich with opportunity and danger.As Mr. Serle, a master chef, finds work in a bustling hotel, Mina tries the life of a salesgirl and then joins the downstairs kitchen of a wealthy family, where she soon proves her exquisite touch with food. But mysteries swirl all around the Westervelt home, and soon they engulf Mina too. As she tries to navigate the shoals and eddies of hidden affairs and powerful secrets, and as her feelings for the mysterious Mr. Serle subtly begin to shift, a remarkable series of events begins to unfold. For Mina, an extraordinary adventure begins, one that will take her far away from New York—and bring a sudden, surprising change of heart…and an unexpected gift of love and responsibility.From the gaslit streets of old New York to the cargo-crowded waterways of the Erie Canal, from one man fighting a personal battle of faith, duty, and desire to another scarred in body and soul by was, Bread and Dreams is filled with marvelously drawn characters and vivid images. And in the keenly observant, steadfast Mina Pigot we are given a narrator to treasure—and a brilliant guide into the heart and soul |
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Bread and Dreams $1.99 “A lovely book.” raved Anne Rivers Siddons about Mina, Jonatha Ceely’s luminous debut novel. “Suspenseful…evocative…meticulously researched,” praised the Boston Globe. Now Ceely returns to the tumultuous mid-nineteenth- century landscape and the world of an unforgettable Irish girl named Mina Pigot. Appealing to mind, sense, and emotion, Bread and Dreams is a sumptuous novel of love and food, loss, hunger, and hope.In 1848, a time when sail was giving way to the swift power of steam, Mina boards the sailing ship Victoria, headed for a new life in America. Orphaned and alone, under the protection of her friend Mr. Serle, Mina is, like the Victoria, at the mercy of the winds of fate. But what awaits both Mina and her protector in New York is a world rich with opportunity and danger.As Mr. Serle, a master chef, finds work in a bustling hotel, Mina tries the life of a salesgirl and then joins the downstairs kitchen of a wealthy family, where she soon proves her exquisite touch with food. But mysteries swirl all around the Westervelt home, and soon they engulf Mina too. As she tries to navigate the shoals and eddies of hidden affairs and powerful secrets, and as her feelings for the mysterious Mr. Serle subtly begin to shift, a remarkable series of events begins to unfold. For Mina, an extraordinary adventure begins, one that will take her far away from New York—and bring a sudden, surprising change of heart…and an unexpected gift of love and responsibility.From the gaslit streets of old New York to the cargo-crowded waterways of the Erie Canal, from one man fighting a personal battle of faith, duty, and desire to another scarred in body and soul by was, Bread and Dreams is filled with marvelously drawn characters and vivid images. And in the keenly observant, steadfast Mina Pigot we are given a narrator to treasure—and a brilliant guide into the heart and soul |
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Cadbury’s Purple Reign $49.95 A unique expose of the Cadbury story that provides an unprecedented insight into the development, sustenance and modernising of an iconic brand. it is a story of bold initiatives, endurance and adaptation.In the UK, Cadbury is today a clear market leader, not having suffered the fate of other 19thcenturypioneer consumer brands, such as Pears Soap and Camp Coffee Essence – still around but rarely in our shopping baskets. The focus on quality ahead of everything else, coupled with innovative marketing and selling approaches, put the Cadbury brand into not just the minds of millions of consumers, but their hearts.However, it has not always been smooth sailing. Competitive initiatives, retail changes and media revolutions are not new phenomena, but have occurred throughout Cadbury;’s long history. We see how the Cadbury brand evolved as new challenges, which could have derailed Cadbury’s progress, were met.The Cadbury brand has also triumphed outside of the UK in commonwealth markets, but elsewhere it has largely struggled to make the same impact. The globalisation challenges of today are illuminated by examining Cadbury’s successes and failures beyond the British Isles.Illustrated with fact, anecdote and beautiful images from Cadbury’s archives this book provides the reader with insights into one of the world’s great brand names. these insights can be readily applied to build and maintain brands through the turbulent market conditions facing consumer businesses today. |
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Call Of The Sea $21.95 Peter Haase has always been fascinated with the ocean and with sailing. At the age of 57, he was at last able to fulfill his childhood dream. Early retirement from a major trading company in New York allowed him to embark on a life on the sea.He had an opportunity to sail around the world in a 42-ft. ketch. However her owner gave up after a month of island hopping in the Caribbean. Peter was unwilling to return to New York.”I am changing my lifestyle,” he had announced to his co-workers when he retired. And that lifestyle was sailing!From April, 1985, to May, 1986, Haase sailed on several boats, grew his sealegs, and lerned to sail, work and live on ocean yachts. In Call of the Sea, he shares his experinces – the boats, the weather, the islands and the people he encountered.After 14 months on boats in various conditions, in good and bad weather,with an assortment of people and two shipwrecks, Haase realized he must have his own boat in order to pursue a life on the sea.He found and bought the perfect boat on which he lived and sailed for 11 years. His second book, Eleven Years Afloat, is an account of his adventures, based on the logbooks of his sailboat, TRITON 3. Haase lives in Stuart on the east coast of Florida, where he remains near the water that he loves. |
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Crests From The Ocean World; Or, Experiences In A Voyage To Europe … $21.05 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IV. THANKSGIVING TO THE NEW ENGLANDER AWAY — OBSERVANCE OF THE DAY BY THE ENGLISH AND WELSH BOARDERS — THE ADVANTAGES OP GOING IN A FRENCH VESSEL—ODD AND INSPIRING SENSATIONS ON SAILING FROM THE WHARF — THE PILOT, AND HIS FRENCH. Nov. 25th. Thanksgiving! What pleasing reminiscences it awakens! Sweetly embalmed in memory are gladsome scenes of the past. Linked with the present, they glide before the mind, drawn thither by the silver chord of association; while fancy, aided by the mellowing hand of time, smilingly interweaves her golden threads. You are at once transported to the venerable domicile of an aged grandfather. Once a year, at least, his heart bursts the bands in which the sordid aims of life, the rest of the year, so narrowly confine it; and the austere and wrinkled countenance, darkly shaded, by carping at the folly and extravagance of the age, now expands with a generous and benignant smile. The doors in the parental mansion have been thrown wide open at an early hour, and the halls now ring with the merry voices of youth, mingled with the deep tones of middle life, and the pleasing garrulity of old age. Soon comes the long-anticipated event. A table of ample dimensions, with the time-honored turkey, and other rich viands, prepared by the good old grandmother, assisted by some of the more skilful aunts, greets the eye with its rich burden. Around the festal board gather uncles, aunts, cousin,the beloved grand-parents, and, peradventure, an invited jruei,w two, — when genial mirth and conviviality heighten the pleasure of the annual feast. The evening glides off, enlivened by story or song; while the younger members of the family group, one by one, silently withdraw to enjoy the youthful pleasures .of the social party, or dance |
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Crests From The Ocean World; Or, Experiences In A Voyage To Europe … $35.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IV. THANKSGIVING TO THE NEW ENGLANDER AWAY — OBSERVANCE OF THE DAY BY THE ENGLISH AND WELSH BOARDERS — THE ADVANTAGES OP GOING IN A FRENCH VESSEL—ODD AND INSPIRING SENSATIONS ON SAILING FROM THE WHARF — THE PILOT, AND HIS FRENCH. Nov. 25th. Thanksgiving! What pleasing reminiscences it awakens! Sweetly embalmed in memory are gladsome scenes of the past. Linked with the present, they glide before the mind, drawn thither by the silver chord of association; while fancy, aided by the mellowing hand of time, smilingly interweaves her golden threads. You are at once transported to the venerable domicile of an aged grandfather. Once a year, at least, his heart bursts the bands in which the sordid aims of life, the rest of the year, so narrowly confine it; and the austere and wrinkled countenance, darkly shaded, by carping at the folly and extravagance of the age, now expands with a generous and benignant smile. The doors in the parental mansion have been thrown wide open at an early hour, and the halls now ring with the merry voices of youth, mingled with the deep tones of middle life, and the pleasing garrulity of old age. Soon comes the long-anticipated event. A table of ample dimensions, with the time-honored turkey, and other rich viands, prepared by the good old grandmother, assisted by some of the more skilful aunts, greets the eye with its rich burden. Around the festal board gather uncles, aunts, cousin,the beloved grand-parents, and, peradventure, an invited jruei,w two, — when genial mirth and conviviality heighten the pleasure of the annual feast. The evening glides off, enlivened by story or song; while the younger members of the family group, one by one, silently withdraw to enjoy the youthful pleasures .of the social party, or dance |
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Eight Years Under the Mast: Sailing Around The World $9.99 Gary McGee,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Xlibris Corporation |
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Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World’s Most Dangerous Waters $22.95 “The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing—. Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air.”—San Francisco ChronicleA chilling account of the world’s most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe, Godforsaken Sea is at once a hair-raising adventure story, a graceful evocation of the sailing life, and a thoughtful meditation on danger and those who seek it.This is the story of the 1996-1997 Vendée Globe, a solo sailing race that binds its competitors to just a few, cruelly simple rules: around the world from France by way of Antarctica, no help, no stopping, one boat, one sailor. The majority of the race takes place in the Southern Ocean, where icebergs and gale-force winds are a constant threat, and the waves build to almost unimaginable heights. As author Derek Lundy puts it: “try to visualize a never-ending series of five- or six-story buildings moving toward you at about forty miles an hour.” The experiences of the racers reveal the spirit of the men and women who push themselves to the limits of human endeavor—even if it means never returning home. You’ll meet the gallant Brit who beats miles back through the worst seas to save a fellow racer, the sailing veteran who calmly smokes cigarette after cigarette as his boat capsizes, and the Canadian who, hours before he disappears forever, dispatches this message: “If you drag things out too long here, you’re sure to come to grief.” Derek Lundy elevates the story of one race into an appreciation of those thrill-seekers who embody the most heroic andeccentric aspects of the human condition. |
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Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World’s Most Dangerous Waters $1.99 “The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing—. Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air.”—San Francisco ChronicleA chilling account of the world’s most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe, Godforsaken Sea is at once a hair-raising adventure story, a graceful evocation of the sailing life, and a thoughtful meditation on danger and those who seek it.This is the story of the 1996-1997 Vendée Globe, a solo sailing race that binds its competitors to just a few, cruelly simple rules: around the world from France by way of Antarctica, no help, no stopping, one boat, one sailor. The majority of the race takes place in the Southern Ocean, where icebergs and gale-force winds are a constant threat, and the waves build to almost unimaginable heights. As author Derek Lundy puts it: “try to visualize a never-ending series of five- or six-story buildings moving toward you at about forty miles an hour.” The experiences of the racers reveal the spirit of the men and women who push themselves to the limits of human endeavor—even if it means never returning home. You’ll meet the gallant Brit who beats miles back through the worst seas to save a fellow racer, the sailing veteran who calmly smokes cigarette after cigarette as his boat capsizes, and the Canadian who, hours before he disappears forever, dispatches this message: “If you drag things out too long here, you’re sure to come to grief.” Derek Lundy elevates the story of one race into an appreciation of those thrill-seekers who embody the most heroic andeccentric aspects of the human condition. |
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How to Sail Around the World: Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail $29.95 Whether you’d like to sail around the entire world or just part of it,the well-tested sea wisdom in How to Sail Around the World will make your voyage easier and more successful. Here’s clear and authoritative information on how to buy a small sailing yacht at a modest price, how to sail her on a big ocean, and what it’s like to live aboard.Hal Roth has been a long-distance sailor for 37 years. He has sailed around the world three times and has logged 200,000 miles at sea either with his wife or by himself. His books Two Against Cape Horn, Two on a Big Ocean, and Always a Distant Anchorage are recognized classics of voyaging literature, and his instructional book After 50,000 Miles, published a quarter century ago, ranks among the most influential sailing books ever written. Yet Roth’s first sympathies are still “for the beginner with stars in his eyes and not much money,” and How to Sail Around the World emphasizes the simple, the essential, and the affordable for ordinary people who would like to see the world from a new and challenging perspective.To a rare degree, Roth combines a mastery of technical content with an ability to render it in elegant writing that’s a pleasure to read. How to Sail Around the World is at once authoritative and accessible. Roth’s strongly held opinions, convincingly argued (he chooses not to sail with a refrigerator, for example), add to the book’s appeal.How to Sail Around the World will tell you how sailing yachts are built and rigged, how to handle the sails, and what you need to know about anchors and anchoring. There are details of cooking and eating aboard, sailing at night, planning the trip, foreign paperwork, and exact figures on what it all costs, as well as the clearest and most comprehensive directions ever published on how to deal with storms at sea.In the beginning, voyaging can be a terrifying prospect. The storms, the leaks, the anchoring, |
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How to Sail Around the World: Advice and Ideas for Voyaging Under Sail $29.95 Whether you’d like to sail around the entire world or just part of it,the well-tested sea wisdom in How to Sail Around the World will make your voyage easier and more successful. Here’s clear and authoritative information on how to buy a small sailing yacht at a modest price, how to sail her on a big ocean, and what it’s like to live aboard.Hal Roth has been a long-distance sailor for 37 years. He has sailed around the world three times and has logged 200,000 miles at sea either with his wife or by himself. His books Two Against Cape Horn, Two on a Big Ocean, and Always a Distant Anchorage are recognized classics of voyaging literature, and his instructional book After 50,000 Miles, published a quarter century ago, ranks among the most influential sailing books ever written. Yet Roth’s first sympathies are still “for the beginner with stars in his eyes and not much money,” and How to Sail Around the World emphasizes the simple, the essential, and the affordable for ordinary people who would like to see the world from a new and challenging perspective.To a rare degree, Roth combines a mastery of technical content with an ability to render it in elegant writing that’s a pleasure to read. How to Sail Around the World is at once authoritative and accessible. Roth’s strongly held opinions, convincingly argued (he chooses not to sail with a refrigerator, for example), add to the book’s appeal.How to Sail Around the World will tell you how sailing yachts are built and rigged, how to handle the sails, and what you need to know about anchors and anchoring. There are details of cooking and eating aboard, sailing at night, planning the trip, foreign paperwork, and exact figures on what it all costs, as well as the clearest and most comprehensive directions ever published on how to deal with storms at sea.In the beginning, voyaging can be a terrifying prospect. The storms, the leaks, the anchoring, |
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Icelandic Society $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: IcelandicRelated languages include Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and to a lesser extent, all Germanic languages. Icelanders are the national group or ethnic group of Iceland descended primarily from Norsemen of Scandinavia and Celts from Ireland and Scotland. Historical and DNA records indicate that around 60 to 80 percent of the settlers were of Nordic origin (primarily from Western Norway) and the rest were of Celtic stock from the British Isles. On 17 June 1944, when an Icelandic republic was founded the Icelanders became independent from the Danish monarchy. The language spoken is Icelandic, a North Germanic language, and Lutheranism is the predominant religion. Icelanders, especially those living on the main island, have had a tumultuous history. Development of the island was slow due to a lack of interest from the countries controlling it for most of its history: Norway, DenmarkNorway, and ultimately Denmark. Through this time, Iceland had relatively few contacts with the outside world. The island became independent in union with Denmark in 1918. Since 1944, Iceland has been a republic, and Icelandic society has undergone a rapid modernisation process in the post-independence era. Iceland is a geologically young land mass, having formed an estimated 20 million years ago due to volcanic eruptions on the Mid-Atlantic ridge. One of the last larger islands to remain uninhabited, the first human settlement date is generally accepted to be 874, although there is some evidence to suggest human activity prior to the Norse arrival. Map showing Iceland in northern EuropeThe first Viking to sight Iceland was Gardar Svavarsson, who went off course due to harsh conditions when sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands. His reports led to the f… More: |