Sailing explores the world of small boats, introducing the reader to the pleasure of sailing, provides a brief history, discuses developments in multihuls and experimental craft.

Sailing

KNOX-JOHNSTON, Robin

HarperCollins, Publishers

London: Collins

On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almostunnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at herhelm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili,paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered andbrown, her self-steering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudderhead, came romping joyously back to Falmouth to a fantastic receptionfor Robin, who had become the first man to sail round the worldnon-stop single-handed. By every standard it was an incredible adventure, perhaps the lastgreat uncomputerised journey left to man. Every hazard, everytemptation to abandon the astounding voyage came Robin's way, frompolluted water tanks, smashed cabin top and collapsed boom to lostself-steering gear and sheered off tiller, and all before the tinyketch had fought her way to Cape Horn, the point of no return, thefearsome test of any seaman's nerve and determination. A World of My Own is Robin's gripping, uninhibited, movingaccount of one of the greatest sea adventures of our time. An instantbestseller, it is now reissued for a new generation of readers to beenthralled and inspired.

A World of My Own (The Mariner's Library)

Travel

Robin round the world: The single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world in Suhaili

Cassell

Seamanship

A guide to sailing and boat management with information on ideas, methods and materials.

Sports & Outdoors

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Cape Horn, jutting towards Antarctica into the enormous seas and gales of the Southern Ocean, has been a graveyard for centuries for sailors attempting the passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. The author assesses the history of Cape Horn from the days of Magellan and Drake, through the scientific exploration of Darwin, to the development of a commercial trade route in the romantic heyday of the clipper trade, its decline after the opening of the Panama Canal, and its modern fatal attraction as the ultimate sailing challenge for the yachtsman - rounding Cape Horn. The author also wrote "The Cape of Good Hope".

Cape Horn: A Maritime History

Hodder & Stoughton, London

This book is the first of a pair of studies of the world's two great capes, the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, which between them have dominated the development of maritime trade over the last four centuries and become places of legend not only for seamen . Starting with the earliest recorded exploration of the waters round southern Africa in the quest for a sea route to India, the book attempts to trace the history of the Cape run, the merchant shipping that pioneered and established it, and the longer Cape route, round the Cape to India, China, Australia and New Zealand. The author has a particular knowledge of Cape waters from his days as a merchant seaman and from the period when he was sailing "Suhali" back by stages from Bombay to England before entering her in the Golden Globe race and becoming the first non-stop single-handed round the world sailor in 1968-9.

The Cape of Good Hope: a maritime history

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Ever since Jules Verne declared that circumnavigation of the world could be done in 80 days, there have been those striving to do it faster. The current holders of the Jules Verne Trophy are British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston, Peter Blake and their crew, who determined to break the record. This book tells the story of their impressive and exciting, 74-day, record-breaking trip by catamaran. Robin Knox-Johnston also holds the record as the first man to sail nonstop around the world.

Beyond Jules Verne: "Enza" Circles the World in a Record-breaking 74 Days

Originally published in 1970, Robin Knox-Johnston's A World of My Own has become a treasured classic - the dramatic account of the first nonstop, single-handed voyage around the world, for which Knox-Johnston won the Sunday Times Golden Globe trophy. On June 14, 1968, Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbor while Knox-Johnston's family and a few friends waved goodbye to the solitary twenty-nine-year-old figure at the helm. His was an incredible adventure, a feat of endeavor and seamanship which will be unsurpassed and unforgotten. Sheer determination helped him survive every imaginable difficulty: Several knockdowns in the Southern Ocean, the disintegration of the self-steering system, polluted water tanks and acid burns were among the numerous setbacks he encountered even before reaching Cape Horn, the fearsome test of any seaman's nerve. Written from diaries and logbooks kept throughout the voyage, A World of My Own is a gripping, startling, and moving account of one of the greatest sea adventures of our time.

A World of My Own

Teen & Young Adult

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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Sailing

Sailing

A World of My Own (The Mariner's Library)

Robin round the world: The single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world in Suhaili

Seamanship

Cape Horn: A Maritime History

The Cape of Good Hope: a maritime history

Seamanship

Beyond Jules Verne: "Enza" Circles the World in a Record-breaking 74 Days

A World of My Own