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Title: Voyage to the North Star by Peter Nichols ISBN: 0-7867-0664-3 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is literature and adventure at the highest level.
Comment: Like Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Voyage to the North Star is an adventure story written at a deep heartfelt level. Nichols's epic story of sailor Will Boden chasing his dreams on a whcko yacht in the arctic goes just as deep. And, with a crew of tragic, lucky and unlucky misfits who all seem wonderfully real and well-drawn, I was taken all the way with them. It's a wild ride. The descriptions of the fogbound arctic seas and tundra landscape are terrific. A great read for the armchair adventurer.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderful Sea Story
Comment: This is a thoughtful book by a man who both loves and understands the sea -- and its risks. Peter Nichols tells a deeply ironic but beautiful story of a wild adventure in the northern reaches of the Atlantic on and around Baffin Island, which is north of Labrador and west of Greenland. In some ways Nichols seems too enamoured with death. Nevertheless, his tale is both exciting and moving and demonstrates a deep understanding of the sea, ships, and the men who sail them. Highly recommended.
Rating: 2
Summary: Lost at Sea
Comment: Although Peter Nichols attempts to create a compelling almost thought provoking thriller about man's greed and the dark animal instincts that lie benieth the skin where the heart does not reach, his depression era piece falls flat or rather "sinks" below the weight of poor uncrafted prose, confusing rather confusable and uninteresting characters and a disapointing ending preceded by a climax that leaves something to be desired. In short, I'd rather walk the plank!!!
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Title: Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat by Peter Nichols ISBN: 0140264132 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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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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Title: Evolution's Captain : The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World by Peter Nichols ISBN: 006008877X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier, William Rodarmor ISBN: 0924486848 Publisher: Sheridan House Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen ISBN: 0066211735 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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