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  • Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing: True Stories about Sailing

    Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing by Gowdey, David;

    True Stories about Sailing

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    Product details:

    • Publisher International Marine
    • Date of Publication 16 February 1994

    • ISBN 9780070237568
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages288 pages
    • Size 228x152x17 mm
    • Weight 392 g
    • Language English
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    Long description:

    Words of wisdom, humor, practical advice, and ripping yarns.

    Twenty-five selections from some of the world's most famous authors and sailors.

    Read about:

    • Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail around the world alone
    • Richard Henry Dana's extraordinary account of beginning a sailor's life
    • Ted Turner's racing strategy
    • Clare Francis on her transatlantic solo race
    • Robert Louis Stevenson's emigrant passage of North America
    • Jack London sailing in Polynesia

    Plus portraits of:

    • Dennis Conner
    • Thomas Lipton
    • Jacques Cousteau
    • Ernest Shackleton
    • The great schooner Bluenose
    • and more


    Words of wisdom, humor, practical advice, and ripping yarns.

    Twenty-five selections from some of the world's most famous authors and sailors.

    Read about:

    • Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail around the world alone
    • Richard Henry Dana's extraordinary account of beginning a sailor's life
    • Ted Turner's racing strategy
    • Clare Francis on her transatlantic solo race
    • Robert Louis Stevenson's emigrant passage of North America
    • Jack London sailing in Polynesia

    Plus portraits of:

    • Dennis Conner
    • Thomas Lipton
    • Jacques Cousteau
    • Ernest Shackleton
    • The great schooner Bluenose
    • and more

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    Table of Contents:

    DAVID GOWDEY: Introduction

    1. CASTING OFF

    ANN DAVISON: Working on a Dream

    BUCKMINSTER FULLER: Naming a Sloop

    JOSHUA SLOCUM: Slocum Sets Sail for the Azores

    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Steerage Scenes

    MICHAEL STADLER: The Psychological Situation at Sea

    RICHARD HENRY DANA: Rounding the Cape

    ERNEST K. GANN: Song of the Sirens

    RAYMOND CARVER: My Boat

    ARTHUR HOPPE: Mutiny on La Boat

    FRANK MULVILLE: Girl Stella's Going

    2. CATCHING THE WIND

    PHILIP & BRIAN BACKMAN: Bluenose

    ALEC WAUGH: Lipton's Last Challenge

    WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: The Yachts

    TED TURNER & GARY JOBSON: The Racing Edge

    DENNIS CONNER & PETER ISLER: Preparing to Win

    CRAIG NEFF: A Sea Dog Primes His Guns

    DUNCAN BRANTLEY: A Beauty's Second Launching

    3. COMING ABOUT

    RICHARD MUNSON: Cousteau, the Poet

    ROBERT GOULD: How to Prepare for an Ocean Voyage

    CLARE FRANCIS: Woman Alone

    ALFRED LANSING: Endurance

    JACK LONDON: The High Seat of Abundance

    STEPHEN THOMAS: Ancient Navigators of the South Seas

    BERNARD MOITESSIER: Suicide Tack

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