117 Days Adrift

Author: Maurice Bailey
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924486319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
The Bailey's is a fantastic human story of adaption to totally alien conditions. It is a story of amazing courage, resolution and endurance. Essential reading for all who enjoy a gripping true story, 117 Days Adrift is an inspiring tale that has become one of the classics of the sea.

Adrift

Author: Steven Callahan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547526563
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.

Second Chance

Author: Maurice Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Staying Alive!

Author: Maurice Bailey
Publisher: David McKay Company
ISBN: 9780679504580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description

117 Days Adrift

Author: Maurice Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900882395
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index

Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584405
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

The Intricate Art of Living Afloat

Author: Clare Allcard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315967
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
In 1974 Clare Allcard and her husband Edward, with their baby daughter, took up residence on their 69-foot former Baltic trader, in which they continue to cruise around the world. From her own experience, Allcard shares with others who would like to try sea livingwhether for a week or a lifetimehow to predict a squall, navigate customs, earn money as you go, cope with health issues, gut and dry fish, stretch your fresh water supply, and many other tips. Photos.

Ready for Sea!

Author: Tor Pinney
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574091441
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Tor Pinney is cruising sailor and writer.

The Captain's Guide to Liferaft Survival

Author: Michael Cargal
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924486005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
The Captains' Guide to Liferaft Survival contains everything a castaway needs to know to survive in a liferaft and get rescued as quickly as possible. Filled with useful experience from the author's 20 years as a captain, the book draws on the latest research in equipment, techniques, and emergency medicine.

Sailing's Strangest Tales

Author: John Harding
Publisher: Portico
ISBN: 1911042653
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales. Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks to the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for both keen sailors to the armchair Captains. Word count: 45,000