Download or read book Shooting Stars Are The Flying Fish Of The Night written by Lynn Michell and published by Lynn Michell. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of many voyages.There is the meandering trail that leads to the right boat for crossing an ocean. There is the preparation stalled in a sweltering American boatyard while arguments about equipment and finance combine with the narrowing of the hurricane window. There is the crossing itself which starts with the wrong weather, broken boat parts, torn sails, serious leaks and a very seasick crew as Scarlet gets blown off course in unkind seas.Male and female monologues form the internal voyages. The skipper's thoughts range from the challenges of fitting a wind vane to almost losing an arm in a tangled genoa to the navigational system of the Puluwat Islanders. His wife describes diminishing supplies, the damp, bruises, blue eggs, jellyfish and her anxiety about the deteriorating health of her son who, suffering from ME, should not have been persuaded to go with them.External and internal journeys criss-cross as Scarlet sails on across 3000 miles of ocean. She would have told a different story.
Download or read book Shooting Stars and Flying Fish written by Nancy Knudsen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readhowyouwant 16 point large print. When Nancy Knudsen and her architect husband Ted Nobbs decide to escape their high-pressure corporate lives and follow a dream of sailing around the world together, little do they guess where their journey will lead them. Nancy and Ted cross all the great oceans of the world and visit dozens of countries. Their adventures are sometimes hilarious, sometimes life-threatening, and lead to the beginning of many life-long friendships.
Download or read book Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts written by Matthew Fontaine Maury and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Run Alice Run written by Lynn Michell and published by Lynn Michell. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Green realises that reaching fifty is much the same as being invisible so why not make the most of it? Her head-in-the-sand husband doesn't notice the clothes mountain and the piles of pretty stationery.When two police cars draw up outside her house in leafy Edinburgh, Alice knows the game is up. While dealing with the present, she backtracks through her memories, recasting the events and people who chipped away at her confidence and contentment over the years. Run, Alice, Run is an irreverent coming-of-middle-age novel that looks with irony and black humour at the way society defines and diminishes women of all ages.
Download or read book The Clipper Ship Era written by Arthur Hamilton Clark and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of Masks written by Mary Hoffman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city. Suggested level: secondary.
Download or read book A Thousand Miles from Anywhere written by Sandra Clayton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Dolphins Under My Bed and Turtles in Our Wake comes the third leg of the Claytons' voyage, two early retirees who decided to live life sailing from place to place to fulfil their dream. Told uniquely from the wife's perspective, Sandra Clayton was initially a reluctant sailor, but became a keen yachtswoman by the end of the first book when the couple sailed from the UK to the Mediterranean. In this installment she describes their transatlantic crossing, from Gibraltar via the Atlantic Islands to the Caribbean, and ending up in Fort Lauderdale. Sandra's previous two books have attracted a loyal and growing readership both in the UK and the US, no doubt due to her engaging writing style. A Thousand Miles from Anywhere is a similarly entertaining travelogue about the Claytons' experiences, detailing the wonderful places they visited, the fascinating people they met and the humorous situations they got involved in. Acclaim for Sandra's writing: 'With her eye for detail and vivid descriptions, Sandra carries the reader with her' - Yachting Life
Download or read book When the Blue Goes written by Robert Nash and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So little is known about the poet Robert Nash. Until the 21st century, when his poems were discovered in a French basement, he remained undiscovered. The poems had been written in Maine and sent to Nash’s friend in France, to be discovered by the friend’s son decades later in a suitcase. Nash emigrated to America from Sussex, England, when he was a child. He lived in Maine with his wife Catriona and son Lee, and likely didn’t turn to writing poetry until his life took a tragic turn. Lee was killed in 1974 in Vietnam. Catriona died two years later. On May 31, 1995, one week after writing his last dated poem, Robert Nash disappeared. Anything else about Nash’s life is speculation and hypothesis. No trace has ever been found and no family or heirs have claimed him. But the poems he left behind demonstrate a true mastery of the craft and reveal his profound solitude and his intimate and healing relationship with nature. In his introduction, former Maine Poet Laureate finds Nash’s place in the Maine literary canon. Robert Nash has come home. Originally written in French (for his friend who didn’t speak English) and published in France in three separate volumes, these poems have been lovingly translated back to the poet’s native language by Françoise Canter.
Download or read book After the Crash written by David Pickford and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Pickford's After the Crash and other stories is a collection of nine short stories that will take you from The Door to the River to the wildest reaches of the Sahara in The Jahannam's Lair; on board Twenty Red Twenty, the first manned mission to Mars, and into the labyrinth of Cain and Abel's psycho-drama in The End of the Past. Five of the stories compose a series of vividly descriptive episodes of mountain literature, where the perilous conditions of the adventurous life are explored and questioned, extreme skiers are tested to the limit, an alpinist suddenly finds himself marooned high in the Himalaya after a plane crash, the border between myth and reality is blurred during a long solo climb, and a tragic mystery is solved by a lone climber who reassembles the lost pieces of The Map of Thunder Canyon. The remaining four stories range from the visionary dreams of a child to the ideology of a Waziristani jihadist. Controversial, poetic, melancholy, original and thought provoking, each story is revealed in just enough detail to let your imagination conceive what might happen next.
Download or read book Rudder written by Thomas Fleming Day and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U S Brig Dolphin written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report and Charts of the Cruise of the United States Brig Dolphin written by Samuel Phillips Lee and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U S Brig Dolphin Made Under Direction of the Navy Department written by Samuel Philips Lee and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report and Charts of the Cruise of the U S Brig Dolphin Made Under Direction of the Navy Department written by S. P. Lee (Lieutenant.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
