ADVENTURES ON
THE SEA
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THE PERFECT STORMby Sebastian Junger. First time author Junger takes you on a startling, harrowing survival experience as he details the story of six men aboard a small fishing boat caught up in the storm of the century. This a gripping narrative about struggling in a tempest of ferocious winds and 100-foot waves. The account
of how fishermen ply their trade and lead their lives in the 1990s is fascinating. The same goes for Junger's descriptions of storm formation, wave physics, and the terror of drownng.
THE BOAT THAT WOULDN'T FLOAT by Farley Mowatt. The early episode in this wonderful book where the "Happy Adventure", under *FULL* sail, mysteriously backs all the way out of Muddy Hole Harbor, to the amusement of all, is worth the price of the book.
These saltwater tales, revolve around Mowats' titanic struggle to find, refurbish and actually sail a boat determined to sink herself and all hands, are chalk full of laughs, tension, tragedy, and still more laughs, as he outsalts the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police, falls into the rummish clutches of Screech, narrowly escapes icy death, and finds the beautiful maiden.Read it and discover the wonderful tale of how Mowatt repeatedly exposes himself and his friends to the elements of the North Atlantic in a treacherous,stubborn, uncomfortable, unfloatable boat which at last count, has sunk eight times.
THE
LAST VOYAGE by Harold Stephens. A true story that brings out
the life -long dreams of uncounted would-be adventurers
from building the " 3rd SEA " to Her tragic death in the Hawaiian Islands. This story has it all , filled with adventure, terror, love, humor, & finally tears. It captures the Joseph Conrad flavor and majesty of stories written about the sea by those who are true sailors. Stephens' narration of The Third Sea's last
adventure is very moving; an inspiration to us all.
DESPERATE VOYAGE by John Cadwell. The pacy, compelling, witty and moving story of John Caldwell, who was stranded in Panama after World War II and set out single-handed on a 9,000-mile journey aboard the 29-foot Pagan to rejoin his wife in Sydney. This book inspires a love-hate feeling in the reader. Caldwell's courage, determination, and passion are inspiring and the reader may even feel that Cadwell needlessly put himself in danger time and time again. From a hurricane's fury to the agony of being on the ocean without food or water,
howver we are reminded what lengths a man will go to to be with the woman he loves.
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