15 must-read biography books like Cape Horn : The Logical Route by Bernard / Moore Inge (Translator) Moitessier

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Cape Horn : The Logical Route

By: Bernard / Moore Inge (Translator) Moitessier

4.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is the story of Bernard and Francoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage from Europe to the islands…

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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

By: William Finnegan

4.27

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

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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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  • 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

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3. My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn

By: Daniel Hays , David Hays

3.88

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Some play ball. David Hays and Daniel Hays sailed 17,000… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of Gipsy Moth Circles the World by Francis Chichester

4. Gipsy Moth Circles the World

By: Francis Chichester

3.74

Format: 410 pages,

read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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5. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • adventure
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7. Tamata and the Alliance

By: Bernard Moitessier , William Rodamoor

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

This fascinating memoir spans the time from Moitessier's magical childhood in Vietnam to months bef… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
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8. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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9. Biografía del silencio

By: Pablo d'Ors

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

Basta un ano de meditacion perseverante, o incluso medio, para percatarse de que se puede vivir de … read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • adventure
"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

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11. Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.

3.38

Format: None pages,

Two Years Before the Mastis a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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12. Plonger

By: Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Un homme enquete sur la femme qu'il a passionnement aimee. Elle est partie il y a plusieurs mois, p… read more

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  • france
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13. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell

3.92

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy prota… read more

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  • adventure
"Tom!"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Company would be a palpable improvement"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"But old fools is the biggest fools there is."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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14. The Voyage of the Cormorant

By: Christian Beamish

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer's Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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15. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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16. The Incredible Voyage

By: Tristan Jones

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga--a six year voyage during … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction

17. The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea

By: A.J. Mackinnon

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Odysseus in a dinghy takes you with him… read more

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18. A Sea Vagabond's World

By: Bernard Moitessier

3.37

Format: 40 pages,

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19. 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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20. Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat

By: Peter Nichols

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Plenty of thrills for the armchair traveller...captivating". -- PeopleMany people go to the sea in… read more

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21. 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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22. Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía

By: Chris Stewart

3.07

Format: None pages,

No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do… read more

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23. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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24. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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25. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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26. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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27. Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening

By: Liz Clark

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

True surfers understand that surfing is not a sport, a hobby or even a lifestyle. Instead, it is a … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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28. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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29. Cape Horn : The Logical Route

By: Bernard / Moore Inge (Translator) Moitessier

4.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is the story of Bernard and Francoise Moitessier's honeymoon voyage from Europe to the islands… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • france
  • nonfiction
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30. Philosophy of Sailing: Offshore in Search of the Universe

By: Christian Williams

4.44

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A Master Storyteller “Something is out there that doesn’t have a name,” writes veteran sailor and w… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Sailing to the Reefs

By: Bernard Moitessier

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this, his first book, never before published in the U.S., the famous French sailor, Moitessier, … read more

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  • travel
  • adventure

17 Best adventure books like Cape Horn : The Logical Route by Bernard / Moore Inge (Translator) Moitessier

Transform Your Habits

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Sailing Alone around the World

Joshua Slocum

4.15

Transform Your Habits

My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn

Daniel Hays , David Hays

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Gipsy Moth Circles the World

Francis Chichester

3.74

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11 must-read adventure books like The Incredible Voyage by Tristan Jones

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Sailing Alone around the World

Joshua Slocum

4.15

Transform Your Habits

My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn

Daniel Hays , David Hays

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Gipsy Moth Circles the World

Francis Chichester

3.74

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Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft

Thor Heyerdahl

4.39

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