Richard J. King: Sailing Alone | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781802063097 | Sailing Alone | A History | Richard J. King | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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**Shortlisted for the Maritime Foundation Award for Best Book 2024** 'An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voyage for Madmen'Colourful and inventive' The TimesSailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out floating on a medium wholly inimical to our existence. But the deep ocean is also a remarkable place on which to think. Richard King's enormously engaging and curious new book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone. Spending weeks and months alone, slowly, quietly and close to the ocean surface is to create the world's largest laboratory: an endlessly changing, capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars and myriad sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening. This is a book for anyone who is fascinated by sailing, solitude and the vast seas that cover so much of our planet.

Über den Autor

Richard J. King is a visiting associate professor in Maritime History and Literature with the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He has been sailing on ships throughout the Atlantic and Pacific for twenty-five years and in 2007 sailed across the Atlantic alone in a 28-foot sailboat. He is the author of Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick, The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History, Lobster, Meeting Tom Brady and co-editor of the anthology Audubon at Sea: The Coastal and Trans-Atlantic Writings of John James Audubon.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781802063097
ISBN-10:	1802063099
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	King, Richard J.
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd
Maße:	194 x 128 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard J. King
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.09.2024
Gewicht:	0,358 kg

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