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Cargando... Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Pastpor Miles Hordern
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This account details more of the unpleasant, i.e. realistic aspects of sailing. For example, he tells of how his skin dries out and acquires ridges of salt that trail over his body. He writes of the lonliness of long passages. He writes of how the Pacific nights are more significant than the sunny days. He talks of the rubbish ashore in the fabled South Pacific Islands, the drugs, pollution, human flotsam. He talks of how waste is disposed of at sea and on land. His own story is interspersed with digressions on the history and iconograhpy of sailing and of the places he visited. I found these to be far less interesting and usually skipped these parenthetical passages. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, and into the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and swells of monumental proportions. The trip would take him through the fjords of Patagonia, one of the last uncharted areas in the world, then north on the Peru Current before he began his homeward voyage."""Sailing the Pacific" recounts that trip in prose so vivid you can almost feel the spray sting your face and the deck heave beneath your feet. Here is prose so hawser-taut that it takes you back to Conrad, Melville, and Poe, indeed all those writers whose works about the bounding main have launched countless imaginations. Hordern pauses to consider those who have gone before him, recounting the stories that have given life to this lonely and magisterial part of the world. Writers, adventurers, fictional characters, cartographers, doomed voyages from history's pages--from the Whaleship S.S. Essex to the HMS Bounty: the South Pacific drew them all, and in their way they left mark on its vast surface. Part sailing yarn, part adventure story, part homage to an unending but beckoning horizon, "Sailing the Pacific" will appeal to the sailor in each one of us, whatever the way we choose to answer the ocean's call. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)910.9164History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. exploration Geography of and travel in areas, regions, places in general Air And Water Pacific OceanClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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