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ISBN10: 0070237565 | ISBN13: 9780070237568

Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 0070237565
ISBN13: 9780070237568
By David Gowdey

© 1994 Published February 1, 1994

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DAVID GOWDEY: Introduction

1. CASTING OFF

ANN DAVISON: Working on a Dream

BUCKMINSTER FULLER: Naming a Sloop

JOSHUA SLOCUM: Slocum Sets Sail for the Azores

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Steerage Scenes

MICHAEL STADLER: The Psychological Situation at Sea

RICHARD HENRY DANA: Rounding the Cape

ERNEST K. GANN: Song of the Sirens

RAYMOND CARVER: My Boat

ARTHUR HOPPE: Mutiny on La Boat

FRANK MULVILLE: Girl Stella's Going

2. CATCHING THE WIND

PHILIP & BRIAN BACKMAN: Bluenose

ALEC WAUGH: Lipton's Last Challenge

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: The Yachts

TED TURNER & GARY JOBSON: The Racing Edge

DENNIS CONNER & PETER ISLER: Preparing to Win

CRAIG NEFF: A Sea Dog Primes His Guns

DUNCAN BRANTLEY: A Beauty's Second Launching

3. COMING ABOUT

RICHARD MUNSON: Cousteau, the Poet

ROBERT GOULD: How to Prepare for an Ocean Voyage

CLARE FRANCIS: Woman Alone

ALFRED LANSING: Endurance

JACK LONDON: The High Seat of Abundance

STEPHEN THOMAS: Ancient Navigators of the South Seas

BERNARD MOITESSIER: Suicide Tack

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