Recent content by townes

Its Spam folks. Yes they appear to be legit and doing good work but they are posting this message multiple times on different boards in multiple threads. You'll never get a reply to your responses.

Dylan has recently added a bunch of new videos. Any of you who liked what he did last year should have a look. http://www.youtube.com/user/KeepTurningLeft (I don't post here very often. I hope the link is not out of order.)

[ QUOTE ] Sounds like a lot of work for a book, I'd rather get out the plastic! [/ QUOTE ] True enough, although if I did attract the attention of Adlard Coles......

Alain, It's a line drawn in the sand. Sometimes seemingly arbitrary and somewhat illogical but the line has to be somewhere. You may well be presenting a particularly useful publication, one that we all should read but ultimately your post is nothing more than an advert for yourself and what's...

Smells like advert, looks like advert,tastes like advert, gues you might be right about this being an advert. OK Guys and Gals, your emminent old Wombat has the answer to all your problems. This is all at great personal sacrifice to myself, any talk of self interest on my part will be dismissed...

[ QUOTE ] Anything by Tom Cunliffe [/ QUOTE ] He's a gem isn't he ? Mind you if you took up reading Cunliffe after you'd given up sailing, I dare say you'd be right back into it. Don't forget Des Sleightholme (sp?).

For those of you who might be interested, Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness (as you'd all know) and another book 'Dispatches' by an Australian journalist Michael Herr. Dispatches was a collection of his reports from Vietnam during the war. I have no idea if it is still in print.

Two books that I havn't read in years but I think of favourably, are NM's 'The Cruel Sea' and 'The Ship that Died of Shame and other stories'. Naval rather than yachting but tremendous yarns.

Cod covers the history of the cod fishing industry from the earliest Basques who having fished out the Bay of Biscay of whales and cod, then moved further North and out in to the Atlantic until they were fishing off the American Grand Banks years before Columbus sailed across the ocean blue. It...

Tibetan Book of the Dead !!

These are the closest two that I've found. Under most circumstances I loath thillers so I've not read either of them. William Dietrich, Ice Reich (this sounds very close ) Clive Cussler, Shock Wave (This is probably the Dirk Pitt book that JHR was alluding to.)

While these books are not about sailing per se they do have a maritime theme running through them. Kurlansky is a very fine writer of , shall we say, popular history. They are not text books but good narratives on quite interesting subjects, if you can believe that a book on the history of salt...

Re: \"Sail Ho\" - Sir James Bisset (Mariner\'s Library) Good Luck. It took me two years to find the third volume after I had read Sail Ho. I'm still trying to get hold of a copy of Tramps and Ladies.

Thoroughly agree re his take on English society through the fifities and sixties. I've been mainly hanging about in American forums where you don't touch anything political with a barge pole. After all it's difficult to discuss anything political with people who think Clinton was a socialist. I...

Only because it is written in a somewhat similar vein to Moby Dick and has some similarity in setting might I suggest Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'.