Sailing Alone around the World (Penguin Classics)47 reviews Joshua Slocum Penguin Classics, 1999 Unbelievable story, a must read if there ever was one + A classic for good reason + Simply escape on a trip around the world This story is the greatest sailing story I have ever heard of. Joshua Slocum is so far out and such an indomitable human being that it is difficult to fathom without reading the story. This book is truly an exercise in understatement. A large society of Slocum afficianados exists now, largely in ...             Lone Voyager: The Extraordinary Adventures Of Howard Blackburn Hero Fisherman Of Gloucester8 reviews Joseph E Garland Touchstone, 2000 Wonderful book about life at the turn of the century (1900) + Why didn't I read this years go? + The Real Iron Man + A Hero You Just Might Have Missed + Lone Voyager             Dove71 reviews Robin L. Graham Harper Paperbacks, 1991 Great Adventure + Sailing solo around the world at such a tender age.. + This book inspired me to go around the world... One of the true great adventures of our time. A great read for all of us 'Walter Mitty' types who dream of doing such things but never find the time or have the ability or courage to do so. A wonderful story.             Bijaboji: North To Alaska By Oar2 reviews Betty Lowman Carey Harbour, 2004 An astounding adventure story + Courage and Pluck in a dory! In 1937 one Betty Carey embarked on the ultimate adventure, rowing from Puget sound Alaska by dugout canoe but her adventure didn't end there. Her explorations of the Inside Passage and adventures with loggers, lightkeepers, fishermen, missionaries and other residents recounted in Bijaboji: North ...             Master and Commander262 reviews Patrick O'Brian W. W. Norton & Company, 1990 Addicted to Aubrey - Maturin + Fantastic read + Worthy of reading again and again ... + A Good Introduction (an Introduction Nevertheless) + Same book, different cover             The Curve of Time11 reviews M. Wylie Blanchet Seal Pr, 1993 Simply Lovely + Woman at the helm! 5 stars for a single mon and the kids! + More than a travel book + A Gift of Time + My favorite book on the Inside Passage and on women.             Hornblower : Beat to Quarters46 reviews C.S. Forester Back Bay Books, 1985 Historical Fiction at Its Best...and a Grand Hero + The best Hornblower book to start with + Story Telling AT Its Best + The best boy's adventure book ever             Gypsy Moth Circles the World1 review Sir Francis Chichester Coward Mc Cann, 1968 A book that deserves to be reprinted and reread... Francis Chichester's masterwork of travelogue and adventure ranks with such marintime classics as Joshua Slocum's SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD [(C) 1899, 1900]. Chichester, like Slocum who was the first documented singlehanded circumnavigation, recounts a story of undaunted courage and daring ...             The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex13 reviews Iola Haverstick, Betty Shepard Harvest Books, 1999 Truth As Strange As Any Fiction (Almost) + At the Full of the Flood + Whaleship Essex + Way better than Moby Dick for adventure and drama + Incomplete             The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea896 reviews Sebastian Junger Harper Perennial, 1999 Hurricane Gloria + Unsentimental Inexorable Factual + The Perfect Storm + The Storm Of The Century and the people caught up in it. An education + But you already saw the movie...             Pitcairn's Island: A Novel8 reviews Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall Back Bay Books, 2003 Survivor meets Lord of the Flies + A Fictional, But Good Story + The best of the Bounty trilogy, and the most thought-provoking + Terrific Novelization of the Bounty Endgame + Excellent reading!!             Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe112 reviews Laurence Bergreen William Morrow, 2003 very exciting - couldn't put it down + fascinating history + One of the better bios I've read recently + Magellan - a slow boat from China? + Around the world in 1000 days             The Caine Mutiny: A Novel78 reviews Herman Wouk Back Bay Books, 1992 The Perfect Novel + The fascinating journey of the Caine + True classic literature + Whale of a Tale + Magnificent Look into the Human Psyche             Mutiny on the Bounty: A Novel29 reviews Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall Back Bay Books, 1989 To fully appreciate Mutiny on the Bounty, Read the full trilogy + Mutiny On The Bounty. the book + British Naval adventure of a different variety + Mutiny on the Bounty             Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea196 reviews Gary Kinder Vintage, 1999 A Real Life Indiana Jones Saga Of Sunken Treasure + Historic gold and modern drama + A Great Book and an Important Story + Not a single photograph! + Engaging true treasure hunt story. Amazing.             Lost At Sea36 reviews Patrick Dillon Touchstone, 2000 A Visual tour back to my adolesence + Don't expect a riveting read + A Little Book Sick I can still remember standing in a downtown field where McDonalds is now erected mourning the losses of my friends, classmates and fellow Fisherman with half the town of Anacortes. It was almost spooky as I picked this book up and could not stop until I finished it visualizing that day that had ...             Men Against the Sea: A Novel7 reviews Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall Back Bay Books, 2003 A Tightly Written & Exciting Sea Story + Illustrates the complexities and perseverence of man + The second, and arguably the best, of the "Bounty" trilogy + Unforgettable! + The Cleansing Influence of Adversity             The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd67 reviews Richard Zacks Hyperion, 2003 The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd + Book Good, beware book on tape + Best of ye Best Pirate Book + 17th century world portrayed vividly.             Yankees Under Sail1 review Yankee Publishing, 1983 It's Great, and should be republished. This book is full of true sailing stories ( is that an oxymon?) If I'd been born at the turn of the 1900 century and read this book I'd have thrown away my life to go to sea. It has an actual account of a whaler who was swallowed by a whale, then rescued from its stomach when the crew cut it ...             Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before92 reviews Tony Horwitz Henry Holt and Co., 2002 Another good read + Cook'n with Horwitz + Engaging, if scattered + Paradise debunked (Again!) + Almost like being there