Bernard Moitessier

Cape Horn

The Logical Route: 14,216 Miles Without a Port of Call

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Produktbeschreibung

Recounts the Moitessiers' honeymoon trip from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back along the "logical route" via Cape Horn, a path chosen for its speed, which took them through the Roaring Forties, iceberg territory and the relentless gale-force winds of the higher latitudes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1979
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781574091540
• ISBN-10: 1574091549
• Artikelnr.: 20996732

Autorenporträt

By Bernard Moitessier - Translated by Inge Moore

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Part I. Birds of Passage 1. My Paper Boat 2. Like a Well-trained
Monkey 3. Like a Lost Dog 4. The Wheel Turns 5. Afloat at Last 6. Towards
the Tropics 7. In the Open Sea 8. The Fickle Trades 9. Meeting Place of
Ocean Birds 10. Atlantic 11. The Great Turning Point 12. Panama--Galapagos
13. A World which Fear has Spared 14. At the Gates to Polynesia 15. A Dream
at a Price Part II. The Logical Route 1. Preparations 2. A Start...Like any
Other 3. A Whole Gales 4. In the Heavy Seas of the High Latitudes or the
Game of the Little Squares 5. Cape Horn to Port 6. On the Look-out for
Icebergs 7. The Horse Latitudes 8. Trade Winds...from the West! Part III.
Appendices Designer's Notes Author's Notes