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Amazing Sailing Stories : True Adventures from The High Seas.
Title:
Amazing Sailing Stories : True Adventures from The High Seas.
Author:
Durham, Dick.
ISBN:
9781119952626
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Series:
Amazing Stories ; v.Book 2

Amazing Stories
Contents:
Amazing Sailing Stories -- Contents -- Part One Survival -- Voyage of Desperation -- Three Months Adrift in a Rubber Dinghy -- The True Story of Moby Dick -- Psychopaths in the Fo'c'sle -- Once is More Than Enough -- The Greatest Sea Voyage of All Time? -- Decoy Ship -- Death Did Not Deter Her -- Bligh: A Flawed Real Life 'Master and Commander' -- Drifting Alone Across the Ocean in a Punctured Life-Raft -- Part Two Calm -- A Ship Swallowed by a Cave -- Orchestra from Hell -- Death at the Helm -- Sunk by a Leviathan in Thick Fog -- The Silent Creeks -- Part Three Storm -- Fastnet 79: The Killer Storm -- A Chop-Stick Fortune in the South Seas -- Fatal Delivery Trip -- Anchoring a Tall Ship in a Puddle -- Three Times Capsized Sailing Round Antarctica -- Part Four Human Error -- UK Border Patrol of Yesteryear -- Man Overboard in the Middle of the Pacific -- Pilot Error Causes Shipwreck and Death -- Family Day-Trip Becomes Rescue at Sea -- The Curse of Ill-Gotten Gains -- Sailing to the Wrong Hemisphere -- Hanging by a Thread from a Shipwreck -- Part Five Adventure -- A Real Life Monster of the Deep -- Treasure Island -- No Way Back: By Raft Across the Pacific -- The Queen's Pirate -- Shoal Waters Run Deep -- From Honeymoon to Shipwreck -- A Bitter-Sweet Taste of the Racing Life -- Dayboat Capsize, Gales and Dismasting -- Record of Records -- Part Six Tragedy -- The Last Tragic Voyage of Francis Chichester -- Sailing into Madness -- After the Wave -- The Mysterious Voyage of the Mary Celeste -- The Mysterious Voyage of John Franklin -- The Raft of the Medusa -- The Riddle of Erskine Childers -- Part Seven Rescue -- Frozen to the Rigging -- Good Samaritan of the Southern Ocean -- Mystery Fire at Sea -- Sea Dark, Sky Crying -- The Four Rescues of a Solo Atlantic Yachtsman -- Part Eight Deliverance -- The Exploding Whale -- Downhill Racer.

The First Man to Sail Round the World Alone -- Not Quite the Fastest Ship -- The First Man to Sail Round the World Non-Stop and Alone -- Deliverance Trip -- The Ship that Sailed Herself -- Round the World in 1000 Breakages -- DIY Ocean Racer -- The Dead Lay in Her Wake -- The Terror of a Lee-Shore -- The Smallest Boat to Sail Round the World -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
A treasure trove of the most exciting tales of adventure afloat, from journeys voyaging across mountainous seas to cruising within a tropical paradise.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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