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For thousands of years, man has sailed into battle, sailed for rumored wealth, and sailed for pure adventure. And for nearly as long, stories about the sea have entertained, intrigued, and inspired readers. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told brings together some of the most compelling writing of the millenium. Here is Peter Goss's wrenching narrative of incredible courage in the world's most desolate ocean Ernest Shackleton's understated and awesome account of one of the most daring small boat journeys ever taken, where failure meant certain death for his long suffering crew. But sailing is much more than headlong dashes into roaring seas. You'll also find William F. Buckley Jr. on idyllic cruising James Thuber on the arcane and often impenetrable language of sailors the legendary Joshua Slocum on sailing alone around the world. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told is a treasure trove tears, adrenaline, laughter, and adventure abound. Table of Contents Close Encounter Pete Goss The Story of Sailing James Thuber The Fisherman's Cup Races Sterling Hayden The Making of a Yachtsman Conrad Miller All at Sea Ray Whitaker Epilogue Ernest K. Gann The Boat Journey Sir Ernest Shackleton An August Day's Sail Samuel Eliot Morison About Figaro William Snaith The Crystal Coast Tristan Jones Aloft on the Flying Cloud Morley Roberts The Sea and the Wind that Blows E.B. White Overwhelmed Captain James Riley Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum Down Spinnaker! Philip Holland Rendezvous Charles Rawlings Smith Versus Lichtensteiger Weston Martyr Being Ashore John Masefield Captain Jim and Reynard Marjorie Young Burgess Yachtswoman Solo Ann Davison Daysail Content David Kasanof Owen's Chase's Narrative Owen Chase Kidnapped William Albert Robonson Hornblower and the Man Who Felt Queer C.S. Forester A Pacific Passage William F. Buckley Call me Ishmael Herman Melville 100 Tons of Bronze, Son Cleveland Amory Service in the Mediterranean Admiral Lord Cochrane About the Author Christopher Caswell has been a boating enthusiast and journalist for more than thirty years. He was the senior editor of Yachting magazine for ten years, the editor of Sea magazine for seven years, and writes regularly for the major boating publications. He is the author of five other books.
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