by Don Holm
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CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Chapter page
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Title Page iv
About Sources v
Introduction ix
- I - THE PATHFINDERS
1 The Pilot of the PINTA 3
2 The Venturesome Viking 15
- II - BETWEEN TWO WARS
3 Three on a DREAM SHIP 29
4 AMARYLLIS ShOWS the Flag 38
5 Hi Jinks on the SPEEJACKS 47
6 The Farmer Who Went to Sea 57
7 The Irish Rebel 66
8 The Magnificent Schizoid 76
9 The Connecticut Tahitian 87
10 The Young and Innocent Rotarian 99
11 The SPRAY Comes Back to Life 110
12 HURRICANE Leaves a Ribald Wake 117
13 Tall Ship and High Adventure 131
14 The Yankees Go Around and Around 140
15 The Lonely One in the Roaring Forties 151
- III - AROUND THE BEAUTIFUL NEW WORLD
16 For Auld LANG SYNE 163
17 STORNOWAY and the Good Samaritan 173
18 The Proper Wanderers 179
19 Because It Was There 185
20 The Saga of the WHITE SEAL 194
21 AWAHNEE Means Peace 201
- IV - LES QUATRE FRENCHMEN
22 Thunder Out of Brittany 209
23 The Chef's Special 217
24 Four Winds and a Bachelor 224
25 Moitessier: The Logical Sea Tramp 232
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- V - THE GOLDEN GLOBES
26 Only Super Heroes Need Apply 245
27 The Over-the-Hill Sailor 252
28 On the Wings of a Moth 259
29 The Globe-Girdling Gourmet 267
30 A Tortoise Among the Hares 274
31 BRITISH STEEL Faces the Test 280
32 OPOGEEs Orbit 285
33 Around the World on the Installment Plan 289
34 The Schoolboy Circumnavigator 296
35 The Impromptu Circumnavigation 307
36 The Lone Pole 313
37 The Same Girl in Every Port 318
- VI - THE MULTI-HULLS
38 A Whale's Tale and Others 325
- VII - THE PERMANENT ITCH
39 From Adams to Zantzinger 339
Sir Pearcy Wynn Harris
Bill Nance on Cardinal Vertue
Dider Depret on Saint Briac
William Murnan on Seven Seas II
Dr. William F. Holcomb on Landfall II
Sten & Britta Holmdahl on Viking
Suttie Adams on Fairweather
Robert & Mary Kittredge on Svea
Louis & Annie Van de Wiele on Omoo
Walter Koenig on Zarathustra
Anne Brittain on a 61 ft. ketch
Frank Casper on Elsie
the Tahiti ketch - Tom & Janet Steele on Adios
Michel Mermod on Geneve
Edward Miles on Sturdy
Louis Bernicot on Anahita
Roger Plisson on Francois Virginie
Richard Zantzinger on Molly Bronw
- APPENDICES -
The Blue Water Medal 369
Moby Dick and Other Hazards 380
Around the Three Capes 400
The Anatomy of a Dream Boat 407
Author's Notes 432
(Note: the Author's Notes have been appended to each chapter at
the end of the chapter. They are presented here as they were
in the original book to preserve pagination, and reference to
them in the index reproduced below.)
Bibliography 466
- INDEX - 489
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- ILLUSTRATIONS -
- For My Wild Irish Rose -
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In an age when mass society has rendered obsolete the
qualities of individual courage and independent thought,
the oceans of the world still remain,
vast and uncluttered, beautiful but unforgiving,
awaiting those who will not submit.
Their voyages are not an escape,
but a fulfillment.
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