Download or read book Tamata and the Alliance written by Bernard Moitessier and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Bernard Moitessier--French sailor, explorer and writer, in his own words. This memoir encompasses his childhood in Southeast Asia, his war experience fighting the Viet Minh, and his numerous sea exploits.
Download or read book Tamata et l alliance written by Bernard Moitessier and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tamata et l'Alliance est le récit de l'aventure d'une vie.Sous le regard attentif des dieux de son Asie natale, Bernard Moitessier nous emmène d'abord à travers une jeunesse magique passée en Indochine. Dans son village du Golfe de Siam qui a laissé en lui une empreinte indélébile, il entend pour la première fois l'appel de la mer. Puis vient une guerre fratricide entre Français et Viêtnamiens, le déchirement, le refus du "Travail-Famille-Patrie", le départ du pays de ses racines vers l'immense horizon avec sa jonque Marie-Thérèse.Commence alors une aventure maritime et humaine à multiples facettes, celle d'un pionnier, jalonnée de luttes continuelles pour conquérir et préserver ses choix fondamentaux. Passée la quarantaine, ce sera "La longue route", stupéfiante navigation de dix mois sans escale en solitaire, dont il sortira différent pour toujours. Après ce tournant majeur et durant les vingt-cinq années qui suivront, il s'efforce de transmettre (en Polynésie, en Amérique et en Europe) ce que la vie lui a enseigné d'essentiel : participer à l'évolution du monde par la transformation de nos rêves en actes créateurs.Tamata et l'Alliance se lit comme un conte épique où se côtoient et s'affrontent à chaque carrefour d'une existence aux rebondissements imprévus, l'enfant aimé des dieux et son redoubtable ennemi le Dragon. Tamata et l'Alliance est l'aboutissement d'une foi absolue dans notre libre arbitre : à nous seuls appartient le choix de guider notre destin au lieu du réveil des consciences au niveau planétaire.Tamata et l'Alliance est le regard serein d'un homme feuilletant son album d'images, parcours d'un vagabond qui ose s'attaquer à des objectifs plus grands que sa propre personne. Son dernier objectif concerne tous les humains."
Download or read book Moitessier written by Jean-Michel Barrault and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Michel Barrault is a writer and friend of sailing legend Bernard Moitessier.
Download or read book Sailing and Social Class written by Alan O'Connor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has much to tell us about the wider sociology of leisure and sport. The book examines the historical foundations of blue-water sailing as established by naval and colonial shipping, to trace the roots of contemporary sailing and yachting culture. It also examines archives of sailing narratives and cruising guides, as well as the children’s books of Arthur Ransome, arguing that this archival material offers a social rather than a psychological interpretation of the ‘bodily investment’ in sailing. The book uses Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘illusio’ – an investment of time, emotion and body into a worthwhile activity – and ‘habitus’, or lifeworld, alongside contemporary data sets, to examine the yacht club as a social institution, including why many boats never go out on the water, the relationship between yacht clubs and the state, and social issues as manifested in yacht clubs, such as sexism, racism and homophobia. Offering a vigorous sociological critique of yachting and sailing, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of leisure and sport, subcultures, social theory, or social issues in wider society.
Download or read book A Sea Vagabond s World written by Bernard Moitessier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I would like now to write a practical book that will cover three topics: boats, the sea, and the beachcombing life." These were the thought of Bernard Moitessier after he finished writing his last book, Tamata and the Alliance, while in Polynesia. The great master died in 1994 and never completed the book, but here it is, meticulously collected from hus many writings, published and unpublished, by his companion Véronique Lerebours Pigeonnière. Moitessier's notebooks include all the know-how and the 1001 tips of this legendary sailor, the knowledge he acquired on the water, in meeting with sailors, during long passages, and during his many years living on various islands. The first part of the book details how to prepare for an extensive cruise, what kind of boat to choose, the rigging, the sails, the anchors, on deck and below deck. The second part describes the passage: the weather, navigation, watch-keeping, and heavy weather. In the third part, Moitessier takes us to the South Sea islands and shows how to adapt to living on an atoll, gardening, fishing and attaining self-sufficiency.
Download or read book Sailing to the Reefs written by Bernard Moitessier and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 1451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tamata y la alianza written by Bernard Moitessier and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamata y la Alianza es el relato de la aventura de una vida. Bajo la mirada atenta de los dioses de su Asia natal, Bernard Moitessier nos cuenta su mágica juventud en Indochina. En su pueblo del golfo de Siam, que dejó en él una huella indeleble, oye por
Download or read book Astronauts of Cape Horn written by Nicholas Gray and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, the first two men landed on the moon. There were five other landings, leading to a total of twelve astronauts standing on the moon. A further six circled above while the world watched. Also in 1969, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was the first man to sail solo non-stop around the world south of Cape Horn. He was the eighth of only eleven men who rounded the Horn alone before the final moon landing. Those eleven men had no-one watching them.This dramatic and exciting book, written so vividly you can feel the sea's spray on your face and taste the salt on your lips, tells the story of the lives of those eleven men and their sailing exploits, and compares and contrasts their voyages with what the twelve space astronauts achieved.'One famous astronaut spoke of "e;a small step for man, one great leap for mankind"e;. For those who go to sea, rather than into space, there's no greater step than rounding the Horn.'From the preface, written by Paul Heiney
Download or read book The Water in Between written by Kevin Patterson and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broken heart leads Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island, where he stands contemplating the romance of the sea and his heartfelt desire to get away. By the end of the day, he finds himself the owner of a thirty-seven-foot ketch called Sea Mouse. Although he's never really been on the ocean before (aside from the odd ferry-ride), he feels compelled to sail to Tahiti and back, to burn away his failings in hard miles at sea.
Download or read book Mainsail to the Wind written by William Galvani and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here for the first time are the eloquent musings of over 1,000 writers and speakers on the beauty, mystery and power of the sea.
Download or read book Cape Horn written by Bernard Moitessier and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.
Download or read book Tara Duncan and the Spellbinders written by Princess Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though only twelve years old, orphaned Tara has developed strange telekinetic powers that allow her to bend space and levitate others high above the ground, as if they are lighter than air. Her two best friends, Betty and Fabrice—often the victims of Tara’s uncontrollable abilities—are the only ones who know about Tara’s secret. Even her grandmother and caretaker, Isabella, doesn’t have a clue. That is until Tara learns that she is a spellweaver, descended from a long line of powerful magic-wielders born on the planet OtherWorld. Forced to flee her Earth home when Magister, the Master of the Bloodgraves, attacks, Tara escapes to planet Other- World, where she finds loyal friends and learns about her mysterious powers. But when Tara discovers that her mother is alive and being held captive by Magister, will she be able to save her? Tara Duncan is an inspiring heroine, whose adventures and personal struggles will captivate readers already hooked by fantasy adventures and characters like Harry Potter. This is the first installment of the Tara Duncan series—an epic adventure full of magic and bravery that is sure to cast a spell on young readers!
Download or read book Song of the Sirens written by Ernest K. Gann and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song of the Sirens is a classic. Newsweek
Download or read book Article 353 written by Tanguy Viel and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best International Crime Novel of the Year – Crime Reads / Lit Hub This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice. In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning to explain what brought him to this desperate point: his divorce, his son's acting out, layoffs at his job, and, above all, Lazenec’s dazzling project for a seaside resort. The temptation to invest all of your severance pay in a beautiful apartment with a view of the sea is great. But still, it has to be built. In this subtle, enthralling novel, Tanguy Viel examines not only the psychology of a crime, but also the larger social ills that may offer its justification.
Download or read book Diasporas written by Stéphane Dufoix and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stephane Dufoix has written the most exhaustive, critical, and analytically sophisticated introduction to diasporas. It resists overemphasizing the transformative power of the present era of globalization and puts the formation of diasporas in a perspective of longue duree that includes previous periods of global integration and diasporic dispersion. Similarly, he avoids the 'beyond the nation-state' trend in the transnationalism literature and shows convincingly that diasporas are intimately linked, in various and contradictory ways, to the politics of the contemporary nation-state."--Andreas Wimmer, University of California, Los Angeles "A work of exemplary range, clarity, and erudition, providing both an introduction and a deft critical reformulation. Diaspora, for Dufoix, is both a complex history and a cluster of proliferating discourses and practices whose future is undetermined. A lucid introduction and an original contribution to scholarship." --James Clifford, University of California, Santa Cruz "By carefully tracing its origins and development, Stephane Dufoix has produced an elegant and richly rewarding guide to the concept of 'diaspora.' The word can be used both too narrowly (confining the idea to the Jewish case) and too broadly (allowing virtually all minorities to qualify). We need a sure-footed guide to the complexities and ambiguities of 'diaspora' and we have found one in Stephane Dufoix. I warmly recommend this instructive book."--Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, and author of Global Diasporas "Stephane Dufoix has given us a brilliant exploration of the many meanings and boundaries of the term 'diaspora'. Its far longer and diverse history than is commonly thought will come as a surprise to some. Dufoix's theoretical and analytical engagement with the term, and the erudition he brings to it, are an invitation to a whole new debate."--Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages "In Diasporas Stephane Dufoix gives us an excellent introduction to and overview of a fascinating and very complex topic. Considering this phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, including etymological, historical, and cultural, he shows how different populations and groups of scholars have used the idea of diaspora to conceptualize their own identities, and the strengths and weaknesses of using the concept of diaspora to do so. Dufoix's discussion of space and contemporary virtual communities is particularly fascinating. This is a very welcome addition to an ever-growing literature."--Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley
Download or read book Performing Without a Stage written by Robert Wechsler and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Without a Stage is a lively and comprehensive introduction to the art of literary translation for readers of foreign fiction and poetry who wonder what it takes to translate, how the art of literary translation has changed over the centuries, what problems translators face in bringing foreign works into English and how they go about solving these problems. This book will also be of interest to translators, writers, editors, critics, and literature students, dealing as it does, often controversially, with such matters as the translator's fidelity to the author, the publishing and reviewing of translations, the nearly nonexistent public image of the stageless translator, and the value for writers and scholars of studying and practicing translation.
