The Next Distant Sea
Title | The Next Distant Sea PDF eBook |
Author | James Baldwin |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2017-12-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781983430497 |
In this, the third book about his travels aboard the 28-foot sailboat Atom, James Baldwin creates an ode to the sea and to those who venture upon her in small voyaging sailboats. The Next Distant Sea continues the memoir of his second adventurous circumnavigation as begun in his earlier book Bound for Distant Seas. Known for books and magazine articles about his earlier solo voyages, the author here describes the struggles and rewards of navigating distant seas, the joys and challenges of interacting with foreign cultures, as well as the love and loss of an intoxicating island girl. Beginning in Hong Kong, The Next Distant Sea takes readers to diverse destinations, through the lesser-travelled islands of the Philippines and Indonesia, to far-flung island outposts in the Indian Ocean, including a lengthy exploration of mysterious Madagascar, then on to newly post-apartheid South Africa. Along the way Baldwin's personal journey is interwoven with tales of the extraordinary and often outlandish characters he befriended, from a man who crossed the Pacific alone in a dugout canoe, to a vagabond trader who traveled to the poorest ports of east Africa in an engineless steel junk, to a young sailor who tragically lost his life. By melding their stories and his own, Baldwin provides valuable insight into the individualist, minimalist, and libertarian mindset of the voyaging vagabond. The Next Distant Sea is essential reading for all who would go to sea in small boats.
The New World
Title | The New World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 794 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Collected Poems
Title | Collected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Roger McGough |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 667 |
Release | 2004-11-25 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0141959118 |
Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet's winning wit, accessibility and abiding readability' Independent ---------------------------------- 'Time has confirmed ... that McGough's talent was much more substantial than many of his long-forgotten detractors suspected. If he was a pop poet it was not in any ephemeral sense. A shy extrovert ... he has given voice to poetry and found a voice of his own which is humourful, introspective, irreverent, easy on the ear, conversational. It is also memorable and enduring and fresh. Age has not withered [his lines] nor diminished their potency. Of how much modern poetry can you say that?' Sunday Herald
The Queen of the Sea, Or, Our Lady of the Ocean
Title | The Queen of the Sea, Or, Our Lady of the Ocean PDF eBook |
Author | Ned Buntline |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1848 |
Genre | Americans |
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Title | Harper's New Monthly Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Mills Alden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 978 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary
Title | Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | John Walker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1824 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
The New England Magazine
Title | The New England Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | New England |
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