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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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.