Alone Through the Roaring Forties - Brossura

Dumas, Vito

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0071414304 ISBN 13: 9780071414302

Casa editrice: Intl Marine Pub Co, 2003

Riassunto

The Sailor's Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sail Below the Cape of Good Hope and south of Australia lie the feared latitudes of the "Roaring Forties," where nonstop westerly gales push huge seas, unimpeded, around and around the bottom of the world. It was into this watery hell that, in 1942, Vito Dumas set sail in a 31-foot ketch.

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Vito Dumas was born in Argentina in 1900. His several ocean voyages began in 1931 with a 74-day solo trip from France to Argentina. Subsequent to his around-the-world voyage, he circumnavigated the Atlantic in 1945 - 46 and sailed from Buenos Aires to New York in 1955 in a tiny, 2 1/2-ton boat. He was awarded the Slocum Prize, the most coveted award for ocean voyagers, in 1957.

Jonathan Raban is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the editor of The Oxford Book of the Sea, and author of ten critically acclaimed books, including Passage to Juneau. He is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award for Literature, and received the New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year for Old Glory and Bad Land. He has been called (by The Guardian) "the finest writer afloat since Conrad."

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Book by Dumas Vito

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• Editore: Intl Marine Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0071414304
• ISBN 13: 9780071414302
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208