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Intrepid Voyagers: Stories of the World's Most Adventurous Sailors
Intrepid Voyagers Stories of the World's Most Adventurous Sailors Author:Tom Lochhaas Stories of the World's Most Adventurous Sailors Edited by Tom Lochhaas As vivid and engrossing as great sea fiction, Intrepid Voyagers captures the real-life adventures of fifteen legendary long-distance sailors -- men and women who have sailed to the ends of the earth and returned to write about it. — Tania Aebi, Naomi James, R... more »obert Manry, Hugo Vihlen, Val Howells, Bernard Moitessier, and other greats chronicle the joys, fears, sacrifices, and triumphs of life at sea with an immediacy and grace that will resonate with sailors and landlubbers alike.
pt. 1. Singlehanders --
Around the World Single-Handed / Harry Pidgeon --
Alone Through the Roaring Forties / Vito Dumas --
Sailing into Solitude / Van Howells --
The Bombard Story / Alain Bombard --
Maiden Voyage / Tania Aebi and Brenadette Brennan --
Out of the Blue / Anne Miller --
pt. 2. Long-Distance Racers --
Gipsy Moth Circles the World / Francis Chichester --
The Long Way / Bernard Moitessier --
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst / Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall --
Alone Around the World / Naomi James --
The Voyage of American Promise / Dodge Morgan --
Taking On the World / Ellen MacArthur --
pt. 3. Little Boats --
Tinkerbelle / Robert Manry --
April Fool / Hugo Vihlen --
Alone Against the Atlantic / Gerry Spiess and Marlin Bree --
pt. 4. Human Drama --
Once is Enough / Miles Smeeton --
Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure / Lin Pardey and Larry Pardey --
Time on Ice / Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke« less