Little Boat Big Ocean

Author: Alan Rush
Publisher: Alan Rush
ISBN: 1907652469
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
This is the true account of a young man's journey, sailing his 21 foot, wooden boat single-handed over 7,000 miles. Over a period of seven years, he set off from British Columbia in the spring of 1979 and sailed first to San Francisco, then the Hawaiian Islands and on to a remote Pacific coral atoll called Fanning Island. It was here that he was offered the position of Relief Manager of a coconut plantation for a few months and ended up staying for six years. The book is part sailing log and part travelogue and expertly describes the conditions he endured, the power of the elements and his experience of living and working thousands of miles from home.

A Small Boat at the Bottom of the Sea

Author: John Thomson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 9781571316578
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Twelve-year-old Donovan's summer with his aunt and uncle on Puget Sound becomes a test of his own convictions when he suspects his uncle's involvement in a local racist group.

Across Islands and Oceans

Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781470004613
Category : Single-handed sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Across Islands and Oceans is the memoir of twenty-five year-old James Baldwin and his epic two-year, solo circumnavigation in Atom, his trusty but aging twenty-eight foot sailboat. Early on and "as broke as [he] dared to be," James determined not only to sail around the world, but also to hike across every island that he visits. His inland forays are unique in the literature of circumnavigators as he finds danger, humor, friendship and romance in places most sailors will never visit. James' story unfolds in his earnest exploration of distant lands and seas, his meditations on the people whose lives he touched, and his greater voyage to explore his own private ocean of solitude. His adventure is not merely an attempt to seek thrills, nor even to tempt death, but rather a voyage of discovery as he set out in the direction of his youthful dreams to meet the life he imagined. "Go seek what you will, where you will, but be a seeker all of your life." -James Baldwin

Little Boat

Author: Thomas Docherty
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763644284
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Despite all the lurking dangers, Little Boat has come to feel at home in the ocean, happy to sail alone or with such friends as penguins or dolphins.

First You Have to Row a Little Boat

Author: Richard Bode
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9781455545520
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Now with a brand new foreword from New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Zaslow. FIRST YOU HAVE TO ROW A LITTLE BOAT first hit shelves in the mid 1990s and has been inspiring readers ever since. Written by a grown man looking back on his childhood, it reflects on what learning to sail taught him about life: making choices, adapting to change, and becoming his own person. The book is filled with the spiritual wisdom and thought-provoking discoveries that marked such books as Walden, The Prophet, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For nearly twenty years, it has enchanted and endeared sailors and non-sailors alike, but foremost, anyone who seeks large truths in small things. This refurbished edition will find a place in the hearts of a whole new generation of readers.

Sailing - A Guide for Everyman

Author: Aubrey De Selincourt
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473389070
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive and novice-friendly guide to sailing. Including all the information a beginner needs to know, this accessible and profusely illustrated guide constitutes the ideal introductory book. Although old, the information contained within this volume is timeless, and would be of considerable utility to the modern enthusiast. Chapters include: “Is It Expensive?”, “Old Boats and New”, “Beginning to Sail”, “Engines”, “Rigs”, “Cruising: Gear”, “Cruising: Buoys and Charts”, “Cruising: Coastal Navigation”, “Some Miscellaneous Tips”, “Maintenance”, “Flags and Rule of the Road”... and more. This vintage book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on sailing.

Little Blue Boat

Author: Ginger Swift
Publisher: Lift a Flap
ISBN: 9781680520774
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Lift the flaps to explore the ocean with Little Blue Boat. Introduces ocean animals, encourages use of fine motor skills, entertains with exploration & surprise.

The Dream Merchant

Author: Fred Waitzkin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125001137X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A powerful, exquisitely written tale about a charismatic yet morally ambiguous salesman Jim can sell anything to anyone. Born into abject poverty, he uses street smarts, irresistible charms, and increasingly sophisticated schemes to pull himself up from door-to-door salesman to international mogul, the father of the pyramid scheme. Jim becomes fabulously wealthy, owning estates and dining with royalty, but along the way he leaves an army of disillusioned customers broke and ruined in his wake. To escape his past, as well as government investigators, he leaves the country to become the leader of a lawless and predatory gold-mining operation in the Brazilian Amazon---an entirely lush, violent, dissolute life. Worn down by age, and a lifetime of shady enterprise, his world suddenly changes when he meets Mara, a beautiful, young Israeli woman with dark ambitions of her own. In the process of their unlikely life together, Mara finds herself attracted to this ruined old man, as if his profligate history of glory and big money, and finally his weakness and proximity to death, creates an urgency and eroticism for her. Narrated by an anonymous writer who is equally mesmerized and repulsed by Jim, Fred Waitzkin's The Dream Merchant is an unwavering look at the price of heedless ambition, the indissoluble bonds of male friendship, and the unsettling nature of love and sexuality.

Exclusion Zone

Author: Noel Carroll
Publisher: Allen-Ayers Books
ISBN: 1452332266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
An unlikely combination of events combine to provide the backdrop for an attack upon the Queen of England: a wayward satellite ending its life in a spectacular way, a young couple sailing too close to an active volcano, terrorists hiding out within the volcano's Exclusion Zone awaiting the right moment to strike.

Violence of Action

Author: Richard Marcinko
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743422765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Following a year of self-imposed isolation, a new and dynamic Rogue Warrior rises from the ashes of the past to take on a terrorist organization that is threatening an American city with nuclear annihilation.