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  • Solitaire Spirit: Three times around the world single-handed

    Three Times Around the World Single-Handed

    de Les Powles ...
    Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided to sail solo around the world. Many novices would be content to just dream of such an adventure, and maybe get as far as a solo Channel crossing a couple of years down the line. Not so Les Powles, one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary and eccentric sailors.Les was in his 50s when he built himself a yacht with little ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Voyages of a Simple Sailor

    de Roger D. Taylor ...
    Aged just 23, and already set on a life of adventure, Roger Taylor signed up as an able seaman on the square-rigger Endeavour II, bound from Australia to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It was the realisation of a boyhood dream. The dream was cruelly shattered when the ship was caught in a fierce tropical storm off the coast of northern New Zealand. For several days, the young crew fought in ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Cilin Ii: a Solo Sailing Odyssey

    The Closest Point to Heaven

    de Edgar D. Whitcomb ...
    In 1986, seventy-one-year-old Edgar Whitcomb faced a crossroads in his life; he needed a new direction. Th at venture became an epic journey, as this retired Indiana governor embarked on what would be a solo, 30,000-mile, six-year sailing trip. With virtually no previous sailing experience, he and his thirty-foot sailboat, the CILIN II, traveled around the world.In this travel memoir, a chronicle ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Sailing with Impunity: Adventure in the South Pacific

    de Mary E Trimble ...
    Sailing with Impunity covers a 14-month, 13,000-mile adventure with Mary and Bruce Trimble from Seattle to legendary South Pacific Islands and home again. From magical sights and scents of their first tropical island landfall to the bustling, colorful Tahitian markets. From sudden midnight squalls and weathering a cyclone in Samoa to pristine anchorages in the Kingdom of Tonga. The memoir frankly ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sailing Alone to Isla

    de Richard Philbrick ...
    A single-handed voyage on a small sailboat from Key West Florida to Isla Mujeres, Mexico. ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Snow Petrel

    (A father-son voyage to the windiest place on the planet)

    de Jon Tucker ...
    When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south in search of icebergs on Ben's small home-built kiwi sloop, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped at the windiest place on the planet, a remote location in East Antarctica.'Snow Petrel' is proof of what ... Leer más

    $4.30 USD

  • A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories

    de Desmond Fforde ...
    "Just the sort of book one likes to find on a yacht's bookshelf between watches." - Classic Boat MagazineSet sail on a voyage of discovery of great nautical stories.These stories range from the Napoleonic wars, via ships that traded under sail round Cape Horn, to what it was like to take charge of a ship in Convoy, serve in the force-ends of a submarine or fly a Corsair against the Japanese. If ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Blue Water, Green Skipper

    A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic

    de Stuart Woods ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the true story of his journey sailing alone across the Atlantic Ocean.Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • Living Aboard a Boat Named Farfetched

    A Couple Tells Their Story of Eight Years Living and Traveling Aboard Their Boat

    de Ron Arbizzani ...
    This is the story of one couples adventures living and traveling aboard their 47-foot cruiser, "Farfetched". It starts with their getting hooked on boating and traveling by water, many years earlier. It tells how they made their decision to really make this move and of their search for the right boat.In 1997 they sold their home and all of their possessions to became full time live aboard boaters. ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Force of Nature

    de Robin Knox-Johnston ...
    In January 1969, aboard his home-built wooden boat Suhaili, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston became the first person every to sail solo, non-stop around the world. 25 years later, Sir Robin again completed a record-breaking circumnavigation, co-skippering Enza with Kiwi yachting legend Sir Peter Blake. His place in sailing's pantheon of greats was assured.Then, after the tragic death of his wife Sue, Sir ... Leer más

    $10.69 USD

  • Bobbing to the Baltic

    de Martin Edge ...
    "Bobbing to the Baltic" is the story of my cruise from Edinburgh to the Russian border aboard my 27ft yacht 'Zophiel'.In May 2012 we left the Forth to cross the North Sea. Though we originally intended to go to Denmark, a combination of wimpiness and extraordinarily poor navigation took us to Holland instead.From there I sailed to the Baltic, via Germany, then to the eastern Baltic, via Denmark ... Leer más

    $3.90 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Yachting Yarns from South Australia

    Tales and History of 10 Extraordinary South Australian yachts

    de Judith Roinich ...
    Yachting Yarns is great news for lovers of all things nautical. This captivating book with its fascinating sea stories is a must for anyone with maritime interests.It traces the history of 10 South Australian sailing vessels, each from its construction through its life journey and is interspersed with humorous anecdotes. To promote the remarkable achievments of South Australian sailors, author ... Leer más

    $1.42 USD