8 books in Sports & Recreation - Sailing
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Beyond Endurance
300 Boats, 600 Miles, and One Deadly Storm
Written by Adam Mayers
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $19.99
The August 1979 Fastnet race, from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel to the Fastnet lighthouse off the south coast of Ireland, started calmly enough for the 303 boats taking part. The previous two races had been uneventful and none of the sailors, among them former British... Read more >
300 Boats, 600 Miles, and One Deadly Storm
Written by Adam Mayers
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $19.99
The August 1979 Fastnet race, from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel to the Fastnet lighthouse off the south coast of Ireland, started calmly enough for the 303 boats taking part. The previous two races had been uneventful and none of the sailors, among them former British... Read more >
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Afloat
Written by Guy de Maupassant
Translated by Douglas Parmee
Introduction by Douglas Parmee
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $14.00
Afloat, originally published as Sur l’eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in a wholly... Read more >
Written by Guy de Maupassant
Translated by Douglas Parmee
Introduction by Douglas Parmee
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $14.00
Afloat, originally published as Sur l’eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in a wholly... Read more >
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Near Death on the High Seas
True Stories of Disaster and Survival
Edited by Cecil Kuhne
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
“The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty-foot, six-storey building. . .Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit.” —from... Read more >
True Stories of Disaster and Survival
Edited by Cecil Kuhne
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
“The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty-foot, six-storey building. . .Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit.” —from... Read more >
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Sea Of Dreams
Racing Alone Around The World In A Small Boat
Written by Adam Mayers
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $15.95
The biennial Around Alone yacht race (now known as the 5-Oceans Challenge) is the most thrilling adventure in the world for the sailors passionate enough to undertake it. Among the competitors in 2002 was Derek Hatfield, a former fraud-squad Mountie, whose forty-foot Spirit of Canada had cost him almost everything he... Read more >
Racing Alone Around The World In A Small Boat
Written by Adam Mayers
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $15.95
The biennial Around Alone yacht race (now known as the 5-Oceans Challenge) is the most thrilling adventure in the world for the sailors passionate enough to undertake it. Among the competitors in 2002 was Derek Hatfield, a former fraud-squad Mountie, whose forty-foot Spirit of Canada had cost him almost everything he... Read more >
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Sailing Alone Around the World and The Voyage of the Libredade
Written by Joshua Slocum
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $13.00
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Written by Joshua Slocum
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $13.00
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Cruise of the Snark
Written by Jack London
Edited by Anthony Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2003
Price: $13.00
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Written by Jack London
Edited by Anthony Brandt
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2003
Price: $13.00
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Godforsaken Sea
The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Written by Derek Lundy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $15.00
"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--. Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."--San Francisco Chronicle
A chilling account of the world's most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe, Godforsaken Sea is at once a hair-raising adventure story... Read more >
The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Written by Derek Lundy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2000
Price: $15.00
"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--. Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."--San Francisco Chronicle
A chilling account of the world's most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe, Godforsaken Sea is at once a hair-raising adventure story... Read more >
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Cathedral of the World
Sailing Notes for a Blue Planet
Written by Myron Arms
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2000
Price: $15.00
The curved lines of a sailing ship resemble the inverted dome of a great cathedral, surrounded not by soot-covered buildings and crowded streets but by a vast liquid wilderness. This physical and symbolic connection is at the thematic heart of Cathedral of the World, a collection of essays in which writer... Read more >
Sailing Notes for a Blue Planet
Written by Myron Arms
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2000
Price: $15.00
The curved lines of a sailing ship resemble the inverted dome of a great cathedral, surrounded not by soot-covered buildings and crowded streets but by a vast liquid wilderness. This physical and symbolic connection is at the thematic heart of Cathedral of the World, a collection of essays in which writer... Read more >
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