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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The author's depiction of his 1994 trek on a sailboat named the "Sea Mouse," which begins as a self-pitying escape from a broken heart and a search for masculine identity, but soon becomes a battle between life and death and an end to romantic notions of adventure.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"City girl Torre DeRoche isn't looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He's just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares,...
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Lure of the Trade Winds: Two Women Sailing the Pacific Ocean transports readers to a place where few have gone before: aboard a thirty-four-foot boat, cruising the Pacific Ocean. Join author, Jeannine Talley, as she and her sailing partner, Joy Smith, embark on the journey of a lifetime.
Each day is a new adventure aboard the Banshee. Talley and her partner are stranded on a reef in Vanuatu, contract malaria, rescue a wrecked boat, visit a skull site...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Turning sixty isn't the end; it's only the beginning.
Michael Cosgrove had a beautiful family, a successful career, and a lovely Southern California home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. At age sixty, he decided to leave all that behind to sail around the world.
With the vision of rugged individualism and salty tales to share with his grandchildren, Cosgrove quickly realized that sailing around the world wasn't as easy as he had imagined. From a psychotic...
