11 must-read adventure books like World of My Own by Robin Knox-Johnston

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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…

If you liked the adventure plot in World of My Own by Robin Knox-Johnston , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History by Nick Ward, Nick  Ward

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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing by John Rousmaniere, None

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

Similar categories in John Rousmaniere's Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing book and Robin Knox-Johnston's World of My Own

  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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4. Gipsy Moth Circles the World

By: Francis Chichester

3.74

Format: 410 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
"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

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Robin Knox-Johnston's World of My Own

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • adventure
Cover of 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

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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • adventure
Cover of Old Man Sailing: Some dreams take a lifetime (Oldmansailing Book 1) by John Passmore

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

Similar categories in Robin Knox-Johnston's World of My Own book and Robin Knox-Johnston's World of My Own

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Half Fast: (mis) Adventures in Slowly Sailing around (on) the World by Randy Baker

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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Self Sufficient Sailor: Completely Revised and Expanded by Lin Pardey

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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  • nonfiction
Cover of 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

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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11 Top history books like World of My Own by Robin Knox-Johnston

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Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History

Nick Ward , Nick Ward

4.15

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Joshua Slocum

4.15

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Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing

John Rousmaniere , None

4.19

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Gipsy Moth Circles the World

Francis Chichester

3.74

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The Long Way

Bernard Moitessier

5.00

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Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

Joan M. Griffin

4.44

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Julie Bradley

4.59

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John A. Pennington

4.63

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