Crossing Pirate Waters

Author: Julie Bradley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732918429
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Join Glen and Julie as they extend their voyage from New Zealand through the Mideast. While in New Zealand they participate in every sailor's dream: the America's Cup Races. But there is no turning back once they leave the wonders of the Pacific for the Indian Ocean and find themselves in the grip of natural and political forces beyond their control. Crossing Pirate Waters is written with candor and wry humor. Come aboard and experience the uncertainties of what is at times, all-too-authentic experiences far from the islands of cruising romance and margaritas.

Summary of JULIE BRADLEY's Crossing Pirate Waters

Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 63

Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was a female major who had to fly into Sarajevo as the only woman on a cargo plane full of hardened combat soldiers. I was nervous and scared, but had to keep composed and professional. My five years as an enlisted soldier seemed effortless in comparison to the competitive world of the officer corps. #2 I was a female major who had to fly into Sarajevo as the only woman on a cargo plane full of hardened combat soldiers. I was nervous and scared, but had to keep composed and professional. My five years as an enlisted soldier seemed effortless in comparison to the competitive world of the officer corps. #3 As a female major, I was deployed to Bosnia as the only woman on a cargo plane full of hardened combat soldiers. I was nervous and scared, but had to keep composed and professional. My five years as an enlisted soldier seemed effortless in comparison to the competitive world of the officer corps. #4 I was a female major who had to fly into Sarajevo as the only woman on a cargo plane full of hardened combat soldiers. I was nervous and scared, but had to keep composed and professional. My five years as an enlisted soldier seemed effortless in comparison to the competitive world of the officer corps.

Escape from the Ordinary

Author: Julie Bradley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732918405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Retire early, sell everything, buy a boat and sail around the world. What could go wrong? Told with great suspense and sparkling with wry humor, Escape from the Ordinary captures the terrors and pleasures that come with forging ahead against great odds on the adventure of a lifetime.

Seven-Tenths

Author: David Fisichella
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458761924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
In 1995, a mechanical engineer whose career and heart are adrift meets a blind oceanographer who spends much of her life at sea. Sailing the Arabian Sea as Amy's eyes, David Fisichella watches her adapt to progressive vision loss while he finds his own bearings, confronts the mysteries of ocean currents, survives an armed pirate attack, and learns what it means to be working for, and dating, the chief scientist. Fisichella describes the Woods Hole crew's research in clear, straightforward language, and enlivens his account of their shipboard lives with gritty details, humor, and a refreshing sense of wonder about our oceans. When Fisichella meets Amy, an oceanographer with rapidly deteriorating vision, he is trapped in a crumbling marriage, stuck in an unhappy career with a defense contractor, and looking for a way out of both. He finds it when Amy invites him to take a research cruise with her at sea. Wondrous observations about the world's oceans, encounters with Somali pirates, and most of all, the story of one woman's devotion to her scientific career despite enormous obstacles are woven together with skill and empathy. A memoir that will entrance anyone looking for a second chance at life and love.

Red Sea

Author: Diane Tullson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554696976
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Libby didn't want to go on a year long sailing adventure with her mother and her stepfather, Duncan, and she isn't about to let them forget it. Traveling through the Red Sea, Libby causes them to be late and make a dangerous crossing alone. When modern-day pirates attack, Duncan is killed and Libby's mother is left seriously injured and unconscious. Libby is left alone on a crippled boat to find safety and help for her mother. Libby must call on all her strength and face some hard truths about herself if she is to survive and reach land. A thrilling tale of one girl's struggle for survival against the elements and her inner demons, Red Sea is adventure writing at its best.

The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told

Author: Christopher Caswell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493083538
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
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 millennium. Here is Peter Goss's wrenching narrative of incredible courage in the world's most desolate ocean along with 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 Thurber on the arcane and often impenetrable language of sailors; and 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. With contributions from: - James Thurber -William F. Buckley Jr. - Ann Davison - Sterling Hayden - Ernest Shackleton - Tristan Jones - Samuel Eliot Morrison - Joshua Slocum - E. B. White - C. S. Forester - Cleveland Amory - Weston Martyr - Peter Goss - David Kasanof – and many others.

Looking for Marco Polo

Author: Alan W. Armstrong
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375833226
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
When Mark and his mother lose touch with his father's Gobi Desert expedition, they travel to Venice, Italy, and there, while waiting for news of his father, Mark learns about Marco Polo and his adventures in the Far East.

Pirate Diary

Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763678503
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
"Platt weaves vast quantities of nautical information into a text as lively as it is absorbing." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Curious about life on a pirate ship? Check out PIRATE DIARY: THE JOURNAL OF JAKE CARPENTER, an account of adventure on the high seas as told by a feisty nine-year-old carpenter’s apprentice, circa 1716. Historically accurate illustrations of ship and crew, a map of Jake’s travels, and a detailed glossary and index vividly reveal the fascinating - and harsh - life of a pirate in the eighteenth century. Ships ahoy!

Off the Grid

Author: Mark J. Reinhardt
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546581345
Category : Sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Exhausted from 60-hour workweeks and never-ending debt, Mark Reinhardt sought a way to live "off the grid"--Away from the demands of work, bills, and the soul-sucking routines of modern life. He found it -- on a sailboat. The captain currently makes his home aboard a 39-foot sailboat in Key West, anchored out in the water, where there is no landlord, and no rent to pay. In this book, the friendly and knowledgeable sailor shares his tall tales, life-threatening adventures, and nuggets of hard-earned, salty wisdom. He gives a personal and detailed account of what the liveaboard life is really like -- from its challenges (going overboard at 3 a.m. to fix a motor) to its joys (sunsets in the hammock). This book will teach you many wonderful skills, such as how to live off just $5,000 a year while traveling the world, and how to take a shower with just 32 ounces of fresh water. But it also offers a more important lesson: how to find peace."--Page 4 of cover

The Voyages of Pirate

Author: Juan E. Corradi
Publisher: Seapoint Books
ISBN: 9781732547025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
With great good humor and a Wagnerian sense of the majesty in an ocean crossing, Juan Corradi makes his sailboat the star of the narrative, and inspires anyone to take to sea in a small sailing vessel, and see the World from the deck of a sailboat. He gives details of her design and build, her string of lucky owners, and the great adventures at sea over 25 years. Sailing at the highest levels of competition and seamanship, Juan E Corradi sailed and raced his beloved black-hulled racing yacht, a Swan 38 named Pirate, across many thousands of adventuresome ocean miles, from Bermuda to the Mediterranean, back to the Carribean Sea, and into the Baltic and the Arctic Circle, always with a circle of close friends and his wife Christina. Pirate won the Bermuda Race, and won her class in a difficult transatlantic race in 1992, the Atlantic 500 commemorating Columbus' voyage of 1492. Cruising the Scaninavian waters, he found rocky outcrops that now bear his name. In Greece, he sailed with the Homeric myths and dear friends, and in Scotland he and crew toured the outer islands in a dedicated Single Malt Whisky Cruise. Juan brings his cheerful erudition and worldly viewpoint to the ancient venture of man against the sea, including the delights of approaching waterspouts, ocean racing, and occassional groundings. He considers what defines a classic yacht and the appeal of adventure.