The greatest sailing stories ever told /

In "The Boat Journey" Ernest Shackleton calmly recounts perhaps the greatest small-boat sailing achievement ever; in "Close Encounter" an around-the-globe solo adventurer describes how it feels to undertake an epic rescue mission in the world's most tempestuous ocean; in &qu...

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Other Authors: Caswell, Christopher
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Conn. : Lyon's Press, [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • Close encounter / Pete Goss.
  • The story of sailing / James Thurber.
  • The fisherman's cup races / Sterling Hayden.
  • The making of a yachtsman / Conrad Miller.
  • All at sea / Ray Whitaker.
  • Epilogue / Ernest K. Gann.
  • The boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton.
  • An August day's sail / Samuel Eliot Morison.
  • About Figaro / William Snaith.
  • The crystal coast / Tristan Jones.
  • Aloft on the Flying Cloud / Morley Roberts.
  • The sea and the wind that blows / E.B. White.
  • Overwhelmed / Captain James Riley.
  • Sailing alone around the world / Joshua Slocum.
  • Down spinnaker! / Philip Holland.
  • Rendezvous / Charles Rawlings.
  • Smith versus Lichtensteiger / Weston Martyr.
  • Being ashore / John Masefield.
  • Captain Jim and Reynard / Marjorie Young Burgess.
  • Yachtswoman solo / Ann Davison.
  • Daysail content? / David Kasanof.
  • Owen Chase's narrative / Owen Chase.
  • Kidnapped / William Albert Robinson.
  • Hornblower and the man who felt queer / C.S. Forester.
  • A Pacific passage / William F. Buckley.
  • Call me Ishmael / Herman Melville.
  • "100 tons of bronze, son" / Cleveland Amory.
  • Service in the Mediterranean / Admiral Lord Cochrane.