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Title: The Saga of Cimba (The Sailor's Classics #2) by Richard Maury ISBN: 0-07-137225-3 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A distillation of the society, the sea , and a small boat..
Comment: Having sailed for 40 years, I came across an old edition of this gem written in the 30's and was astounded by the economy of prose, yet the depth of feeling created by its author.
It is a deceptively simple story, but packed with thoughts and observations which are thoroughly relevant today. And it is written in a style which came BEFORE the present supermediatic hyperbolic overstatement that characterizes most of what we read and hear today.
It is an excellent gift, and an inspirational work, even if you are never planning to cross an ocean. It is in a word, a classic. (And it is wonderful to think about how these places actually were in the thirties, and to listen to proper nautical language and vocabulary which has been washed away by the advent of the jet plane and skidoo.. Bon voyage!
Rating: 5
Summary: An inspiration
Comment: I suspect this is THE book that inspired otherwise sane and sensible people to abandon their career, family and fortune in order to sail off to the South Pacific.
Rating: 5
Summary: Book best at conveying the essential -ness of sailing.
Comment: The Saga of Cimba is a masterwork. I find this book as compelling, captivating, and yes even mesmerizing, now as when I first read it many years ago. It is one of very, very few which I can always re-read with unwavering pleasure and delight. Richard Maury has crafted a volume as close to perfect in terms of making the essential -nesses of cruising in small sail boats clear to the reader as any I have ever found. It's facinating to me that right through to the last page he never tells of himself, and only word sketches his alternating sailing companions very briefly. Cimba herself is the main character and Maury never loses sight of that fact. The Saga of Cimba is a book filled with the unpretentious magic of greatness.
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Title: Wanderer by Sterling Hayden ISBN: 1574090488 Publisher: Sheridan House Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier, William Rodarmor ISBN: 0924486848 Publisher: Sheridan House Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Give Me the World (Adventura Books Series) by Leila Hadley ISBN: 1580050913 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi, Bernadette Brennan ISBN: 0345410122 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: 40,000 Miles in a Canoe (The Sailor's Classics #3) by John Claus Voss ISBN: 0071373330 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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