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Title: The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier, William Rodarmor ISBN: 0-924486-84-8 Publisher: Sheridan House Pub. Date: March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Rapture of the Deep
Comment: This is simply the best sailing book ever, and very dangerous for anyone who has a settled life, but wonders if there might not be more. Resist this, if you can:
"My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat & me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk."
It is also a story about a competitive man who had the prize in his hands (winning a non-stop, solo around the world race), thought about all the cameras, newsmen, Brigitte Bardot in attendance et al, and decided to just keep on sailing.
Oh yes, and the book is chock-full of extremely good advice about blue-water sailing. I wish I had a below-decks steering station with a plexiglass dome to look through...
Rating: 5
Summary: Good reading for the singlehander.
Comment: Plastic boats and GPS have changed things a lot since this was written, but it's still a very good read. Some of the dream and hallucination passages may be a little overly dramatic, but he is French, after all.
Rating: 5
Summary: ONE WORD ...... PERFECT!
Comment: Anyone who has a love of the sea or a love of nature will be sucked into this book quickly and completely. Moitessier's (pronounced mwa - tee - see - ay) writing is like poetry. This book has the power to change your view of the things around you, and to change your view of the world in general. Very powerful. Very moving. Absolutely a Must Buy.
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Title: Sailing Alone Around the World (Penguin Classics) by Joshua Slocum, Thomas Fogarty, George Varian, Thomas Philbrick, Tom Philbin ISBN: 0140437363 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: A Sea Vagabond's World: Boats and Sails Distant Shores Islands and Lagoons by Bernard Moitessier, William Rodarmor ISBN: 1574090216 Publisher: Sheridan House Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A World of My Own by Robin Knox-Johnston ISBN: 039302900X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Wanderer by Sterling Hayden ISBN: 1574090488 Publisher: Sheridan House Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols ISBN: 0060197641 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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