ALONE AT SEA / Richard J. King
ALONE AT SEA / Richard J. King
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What drives people to embark on a journey across the open sea completely alone? In order to find an answer to this question, Richard J. King looks at a number of unconventional personalities in "The History of Singlehanded Sailing". They dared to conquer the oceans completely on their own, often in tiny ships, befriended birds, named their equipment, crossed geographical, physical and mental boundaries and often disappeared forever.
King spans an arc from Joshua Slocum, who from 1895 was the first known solo sailor to circumnavigate the world with the simplest of means, to Sharon Sites Adams, who in the 1960s, shortly after setting foot on a sailing boat for the first time, crossed the Pacific accompanied only by her turtle. And last but not least, the gripping account of his own crossing of the Atlantic, which almost came to a fatal end.
Richard J. King graduated from the University of St. Andrews with a PhD in Marine Literature and Creative Writing. He is currently a Professor of Maritime History and Literature at the SEA Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He has sailed the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans for 30 years, crossing the latter solo on an 8.7 meter sailboat in 2007.
Translated from American English by Rudolf Mast. Born in 1958, Mast was a sailing instructor and sailmaker before studying theater studies and philosophy in Berlin. He now works there as a theater scholar, editor and translator.
You can find a reading sample under "Downloads".
496 pages, numerous illustrations, format 15 x 22 cm, hardcover with dust jacket and ribbon marker. German edition.
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What drives people to embark on a journey across the open sea completely alone? In order to find an answer to this question, Richard J. King looks at a number of unconventional personalities in "The History of Singlehanded Sailing". They dared to conquer the oceans completely on their own, often in tiny ships, befriended birds, named their equipment, crossed geographical, physical and mental boundaries and often disappeared forever.
King spans an arc from Joshua Slocum, who from 1895 was the first known solo sailor to circumnavigate the world with the simplest of means, to Sharon Sites Adams, who in the 1960s, shortly after setting foot on a sailing boat for the first time, crossed the Pacific accompanied only by her turtle. And last but not least, the gripping account of his own crossing of the Atlantic, which almost came to a fatal end.
Richard J. King graduated from the University of St. Andrews with a PhD in Marine Literature and Creative Writing. He is currently a Professor of Maritime History and Literature at the SEA Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He has sailed the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans for 30 years, crossing the latter solo on an 8.7 meter sailboat in 2007.
Translated from American English by Rudolf Mast. Born in 1958, Mast was a sailing instructor and sailmaker before studying theater studies and philosophy in Berlin. He now works there as a theater scholar, editor and translator.
You can find a reading sample under "Downloads".
496 pages, numerous illustrations, format 15 x 22 cm, hardcover with dust jacket and ribbon marker. German edition.
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