Author: Bungy Hedley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434372235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"View From the Top of the Mast" is a true story of the adventures of a young gal who broke the stereotyped mold of the all male world in the late 1940s and 50s by crewing on sailboats fromCaliforniatoHawaii,Tahiti, and points beyond. She bought her first sailboat by weaving coconut palm hats at luaus. Lady Weldon Hedley, aka Bungy (as in bungee jumping) was raised inCaliforniaright by the sea, where the sparkling blue Pacific was her private swimming pool. With her famous beachcombing dad, the family combed beaches fromMexicotoOregon. Many celebrities visited their home, which was constructed from driftwood. She met Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, waltzed with Rudy Vallee, and was escorted to her senior prom by Raymond Burr. She even played a joke on Humphrey Bogart. "View From the Top of the Mast" is a humorous tale of Bungy's first twenty-two years of over seven decades of a life filled with the joy of living. Bungy says this book is dedicated to the reader who has a certain sense of adventure that is crying to get out. Buy it! You won't regret it!
View from the Top of the Mast
Author: Bungy Hedley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434372235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"View From the Top of the Mast" is a true story of the adventures of a young gal who broke the stereotyped mold of the all male world in the late 1940s and 50s by crewing on sailboats fromCaliforniatoHawaii,Tahiti, and points beyond. She bought her first sailboat by weaving coconut palm hats at luaus. Lady Weldon Hedley, aka Bungy (as in bungee jumping) was raised inCaliforniaright by the sea, where the sparkling blue Pacific was her private swimming pool. With her famous beachcombing dad, the family combed beaches fromMexicotoOregon. Many celebrities visited their home, which was constructed from driftwood. She met Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, waltzed with Rudy Vallee, and was escorted to her senior prom by Raymond Burr. She even played a joke on Humphrey Bogart. "View From the Top of the Mast" is a humorous tale of Bungy's first twenty-two years of over seven decades of a life filled with the joy of living. Bungy says this book is dedicated to the reader who has a certain sense of adventure that is crying to get out. Buy it! You won't regret it!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434372235
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"View From the Top of the Mast" is a true story of the adventures of a young gal who broke the stereotyped mold of the all male world in the late 1940s and 50s by crewing on sailboats fromCaliforniatoHawaii,Tahiti, and points beyond. She bought her first sailboat by weaving coconut palm hats at luaus. Lady Weldon Hedley, aka Bungy (as in bungee jumping) was raised inCaliforniaright by the sea, where the sparkling blue Pacific was her private swimming pool. With her famous beachcombing dad, the family combed beaches fromMexicotoOregon. Many celebrities visited their home, which was constructed from driftwood. She met Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, waltzed with Rudy Vallee, and was escorted to her senior prom by Raymond Burr. She even played a joke on Humphrey Bogart. "View From the Top of the Mast" is a humorous tale of Bungy's first twenty-two years of over seven decades of a life filled with the joy of living. Bungy says this book is dedicated to the reader who has a certain sense of adventure that is crying to get out. Buy it! You won't regret it!
The London journal of arts and sciences (and repertory of patent inventions) [afterw.] Newton's London journal of arts and sciences
Author: William Newton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Seamanship. Second Edition, with ... Illustrations, from Drawings by J. Murray, Etc
Author: Sir George Strong NARES
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences
Author:
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Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal
Author:
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Seamanship: Including Names of Principal Parts of a Ship; Masts, Sails, Yards, & C. ...
Author: George Strong Nares
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Text
Author: Dixon Kemp
Publisher:
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Category : Yacht building
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yacht building
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Shipmodeler
Author:
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Category : Ship models
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
Publisher:
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Category : Ship models
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
Naval discipline ... or, A view of the necessity for passing a law establishing an efficient naval discipline on board ships in the merchant-service
Author: Christopher Biden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description