A cracking read

[Rob_Webb]

Joshua Slocum's "Sailing Alone Around The World"

Whoever you are and whatever your interest in sailing I thoroughly recommend this fine yarn. It will (perhaps only temporarily) restore your faith in humanity and will be good for your soul.....

R

 

[peterk]

hi R and EVERYONE,
I have read and re-read it a few times,
last during my engine- and
-radioless circumnavigation
100 years after the 'old man'

I always find something of new interest in it,
- that book is a jewel
...and not NAUTICAL at all, no need to be a 'yachtie'
to enjoy it.


...sample: Slocum rows out an anchor and a wave turns his dinghy over.
he clings to the upside down boat ,
later writes:
...'that's when I remembered that I couldn't swim.....'

enjoy!

...peter kittel, Joshua Slocum Society International

www.juprowa.com/kittel

 

[kingfisher]

Don\'t bother buying the book

It's online.

http://www.arthur-ransome.org/ar/literary/slocum2.htm

And yes, i'v you haven't, you must read it.

Group of people on the pontoon: skipper is the one with the toolbox.
http://sirocco31.tripod.com

 

[vyv_cox]

Re: Don\'t bother buying the book

Anyone know who stocks "Riddle of the Sands"? It's out of print, Amazon have neither a new or used one. Or does anyone want to sell me a copy?

 

[chas]

I have two copies, one at home and one in the boat.

 

[bedouin]

Re: Don\'t bother buying the book

I certainly saw copies for sale on one of the stands at SBS, but I can't remember which one. Have you tried Kelvin Hughes?

 

[amadeus]

Re: Don\'t bother buying the book

I bought a copy in Falmouth from the Marine Book Shop in Arwenack in August for £1.29 which was a Penguin Popular Classic 1995 edition. Hope this helps

 

[vyv_cox]

Riddle: no longer

Thanks, I had not. Have tried their website and ordered a copy.

 

[jimi]

Another I thoroughly enjoyed recently was "Red Mains'l". Absolute classic.

Jim

 

[AJW]

Re: Don\'t bother buying the book

I bought it at SBS and am reading it at present. The copy I have is published by a company in Suffolk. I'll post the details when I get home tonight.

Cheers,
AJ

PS. Sam Llewyllen's sequel to RoS is also worth reading!

 

[vyv_cox]

Re: Don\'t bother buying the book

Thanks, but already ordered. The beauty of the Internet and credit cards. Will look out for the sequel.

Vyv

 

[webcraft]

Re: Online books

Riddle of the Sands is online now on BlueMoment, along with Slocum's book plus Moby Dick, Two Years Before the Mast and a couple of others.

See http://www.bluemoment.com/

 

[peterb]

There's a new bookshop in Watford. Yesterday I went for a browse in the sailing section. Noticed that not only did they have Slocum in stock, they had it in five different editions!

 

[Ohdrat]

Re: Try Tilman too

Here's another great book.. The Eight Sailing / Mountain-exploration Books by H W Tilman.. wonderful discriptions of sailing to the far corners in Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters.

 

[peterk]

Re: 3 great sailing reads

1) 'Seaquest' by Charles Borden - a compilation of all sorts of small-boat
trips until the 70's,
this book caused lots of people to ditch the straight life...

2) 'The Cruise of the Conrad' by Allan Villiers,

3) 'The Last Grain Race' by Eric Newby.

...peter, www.juprowa.com/kittel

 

[BlackSheep]

Re: Don\'t bother buying the book

saw a copy in Kelvin Hughes in Glasgow last week!