Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing (Paperback, Ed)

Words of wisdom, humor, practical advice, and ripping yarns.

Twenty-five selections from some of the worlds most famous authors and sailors.

Read about:

• Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail around the world alone
  
• Richard Henry Danas extraordinary account of beginning a sailors life
  
• Ted Turners racing strategy
  
• Clare Francis on her transatlantic solo race
  
• Robert Louis Stevensons emigrant passage of North America
  
• Jack London sailing in Polynesia
  

Plus portraits of:

• Dennis Conner
  
• Thomas Lipton
  
• Jacques Cousteau
  
• Ernest Shackleton
  
• The great schooner Bluenose
  
• and more
  

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