World of My Own
By: Robin Knox-Johnston
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour stee…
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1. Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History
By: Nick Ward , Nick Ward
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In August of 1979, Nick Ward began the 600-mile course of the UK's Fastnet Race with perfect weathe… read more
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2. Sailing Alone around the World
By: Joshua Slocum
4.15
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas—the first man to circumnavigate the world… read more
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"I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books w…"-Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
3. Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing
By: John Rousmaniere , None
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In August 1979, 303 yachts began the 600-mile Fastnet Race from the Isle of Wight off the southwest… read more
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Similar categories in Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth Circles the World book and Robin Knox-Johnston's World of My Own
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5. A Voyage for Madmen
By: Peter Nichols
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate … read more
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6. The Long Way
By: Bernard Moitessier
5.00
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden … read more
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7. Sailing a Serious Ocean : Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
By: John Kretschmer
4.53
Format: 194 pages,
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8. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By: Alfred Lansing
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more
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- biography
- adventure
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"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
9. Dove
By: Derek L.T. Gill , None
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, Californ… read more
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10. Maiden Voyage
By: Tania Aebi , Bernadette Brennan
4.43
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offe… read more
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11. Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
By: Derek Lundy
3.51
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--. Lundy tells a… read more
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12. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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13. Night Intruder: A Personal Account of the Radar War Between the RAF and Luftwaffe Night-Fighter Forces (Memoirs of World War Two in the Air Book 1)
By: Jeremy Howard-Williams
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
An engrossing memoir of one RAF fighter pilot’s battle against the Luftwaffe in the dead of night.I… read more
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14. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
By: Rachel Slade
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the containe… read more
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15. Old Man Sailing: Some dreams take a lifetime (Oldmansailing Book 1)
By: John Passmore
4.29
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
When COVID-19 struck the UK, the government advised the over-70’s to “shield” while the country wen… read more
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16. World of My Own
By: Robin Knox-Johnston
4.36
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour stee… read more
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17. Cape Horn to Starboard
By: John Kretschmer
4.19
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary account of the author's voyage around Cape Horn in a 32-foot sailboat, sailing east-to-we… read more
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18. Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging
By: John Kretschmer
4.39
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
John Kretschmer is sailing's practical philosopher – as much a doer as a thinker. And that is the o… read more
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19. Half Fast: (mis) Adventures in Slowly Sailing around (on) the World
By: Randy Baker
4.46
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Ever thought of ditching your conventional life to buy a sailboat and go traveling the world as a m… read more
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20. Self Sufficient Sailor: Completely Revised and Expanded
By: Lin Pardey
4.47
Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition
This book is just what the title says. It is the distillation of what the Lin and Larry learned dur… read more
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21. On a Belt of Foaming Seas: Sailing Solo Around the World via the Three Great Capes in the 2018 Golden Globe Race
By: Tapio Lehtinen
4.69
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
"A must-read for any sailor" ***** "A modern-day Moitessier" ***** "A sailing Legend" *****One man’… read more
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