Author: William F. Stark
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0786740051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.
Author: Charles Davis
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1461741831
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Charles Davis was one of the world's leading maritime model builders. During the first half of the last century, he was also acclaimed as an artist, historian, and author. This is his recollection of one of his first adventures at sea: sailing out of New York in 1892 on a voyage around Cape Horn, aboard the bark James A. Wright.
Author: Christian Perrissin
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594653453
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A sprawling frontier saga rich with adventure and romance, set in Tierra del Fuego at the eve of the 20th century.
Author: Hal Roth
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN: 9780540071449
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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A tale of high adventure at sea in one of the least known parts of the world.
Author: Bernard Moitessier
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574091540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.
Author: Christian Perrissin
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594655006
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A sprawling frontier saga rich with adventure and romance, set in Tierra del Fuego at the eve of the 20th century.
Author: John Kretschmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580801621
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Legendary account of the author's voyage around Cape Horn in a 32-foot sailboat, sailing east-to-west (thus the Horn is to starboard, or on the right). This is a notoriously difficult and dangerous passage, especially in a boat this size.
Author: Charles H. Lagerbom
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439673209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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Cape Horn conjures up images of wind-whipped waters and desperate mariners in frozen rigging. Long recognized as a maritime touchstone for sailors, it marks the spot where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet in one writhing mass. "Doubling" Cape Horn became the ultimate test, earning a prominent place in Maine maritime history. At the end of South America, it shares longitude 67° west exactly with Cutler, Maine, a direct north-south line of seven thousand miles. Maine Cape Horners were recognized by a golden earring. If they did not survive this most difficult journey in the world, the earring covered the costs of their funeral, should the body ever be found. Maritime historian Charles H. Lagerbom traveled to the end of the world to help research this exciting story of bold Mainers and their exhilarating and oftentimes deadly dance with danger.
Author: Christian Perrissin
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594655324
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Book Description
A sprawling frontier saga rich with adventure and romance, set in Tierra del Fuego at the eve of the 20th century.
Author: Dallas Murphy
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786738731
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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For as far back as he can remember, Dallas Murphy has been sea-struck. Since he began to read, "besotted by salt-water dreams and nautical language," he studied the lore surrounding a place of mythic proportions: the ever-alluring Cape Horn. And after years of dreaming -- and sailing -- he finally made his voyage there. In this lively, thrilling blend of history, geography, and modern-day adventure, Murphy shows how the myth crossed wakes with his reality. Cape Horn is a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America -- 55 degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West. It's a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty, one that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to Joseph Conrad. For centuries, the small stretch of water between Cape Horn and the Antarctic peninsula was the only gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and it's a place where the storms are bigger, the winds stronger, the seas rougher than anywhere else on earth. Rounding the Horn is the ultimate maritime rite of passage, and in Murphy's hands, it becomes a thrilling, exuberant tour. Weaving together stories of his own nautical adventures with long-lost tales of those who braved the Cape before him -- from Spanish missionaries to Captain Cook -- and interspersed with breathtaking descriptions of the surrounding wilderness, the result is a beautifully crafted, immensely enjoyable read.
