To the Sea Again: Classic Sailing Stories - Paperback NEW Tom McCarthy (E 2014-0

Further Details\n\nTitle: To the Sea Again\nCondition: New\n Subtitle: Classic Sailing Stories\nContributor: Tom McCarthy (Edited by)\nType: Paperback\nFormat: Paperback\nISBN-10: 0762796480\nEAN: 9780762796489\nISBN: 9780762796489\nPublisher: Globe Pequot Press\nGenre: Sports & Hobbies\nRelease Date: 01/04/2014\nRelease Year: 2014\nNumber of Pages: 296\nCountry/Region of Manufacture: US\nItem Weight: 20g\nAuthor: No Author\nLanguage: English\nDescription: Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Shackleton and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pause. Their stoic accounts are stronger and more dramatic for their total lack of affection, th.