Mingming Ii The Island Of The Ice

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : The FitzRoy Press
ISBN 13 : 095580356X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming II & the Island of the Ice written by Roger D. Taylor and published by The FitzRoy Press. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fourth book, singlehanded sailor Roger D. Taylor takes us once more to the remote corners of the Arctic. Sailing his newly-created yacht Mingming II, Roger ventures into the Baring Sea and explores the islands of north-eastern Svalbard. During the 55-day voyage to waters seldom sailed in, he encounters everything from walruses to inquisitive humpback whales to massive ice cliffs, and nearly rescues a beautiful Russian girl from Bear Island. On his way back he makes his third visit to the island of Jan Mayen, deep in the Norwegian Sea, and there fulfils a long-held ambition. Acutely observational and well-laced with Taylor’s wry humour, the book is as much an exploration of what is possible with one man, one simple boat and one home-made sail, as a journey to some of the planet’s bleakest and most beautiful islands.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803578
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming II & the Islands of the Ice written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fourth book, singlehanded sailor Roger D. Taylor takes us once more to the remote corners of the Arctic. Sailing his newly-created yacht Mingming II, Roger ventures into the Baring Sea and explores the islands of north-eastern Svalbard. During the 55-day voyage to waters seldom sailed in, he encounters everything from walruses to inquisitive humpback whales to massive ice cliffs, and nearly rescues a beautiful Russian girl from Bear Island. On his way back he makes his third visit to the island of Jan Mayen, deep in the Norwegian Sea, and there fulfils a long-held ambition. Acutely observational and well-laced with Taylor’s wry humour, the book is as much an exploration of what is possible with one man, one simple boat and one home-made sail, as a journey to some of the planet’s bleakest and most beautiful islands.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : The FitzRoy Press
ISBN 13 : 0955803594
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming II & the Impossible Voyage written by Roger D. Taylor and published by The FitzRoy Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far to the north of Russia, across the cold waters of the Barents Sea, lies the desolate archipelago known as Franz Josef Land.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803535
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming and the Tonic of Wildness written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his third book singlehanded sailor Roger Taylor ventures to even more remote seas aboard his tiny junk-rigged yacht Mingming. The first voyage, across the North Atlantic to Baffin Island, is curtailed when Taylor is injured in a storm in the Davis Strait. Unwilling to sail on into the ice with a broken rib, he turns round and re-crosses the Atlantic to Plymouth, completing a non-stop voyage of over 4000 miles. The second voyage takes the reader to Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen and on to 80 North, virtually as close as it is possible to sail to the North Pole. During these two voyages Taylor spends well over four months at sea, observing and reflecting on the sea itself, its wildlife, its attraction, and man's uneasy relationship with it.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803527
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers three extraordinary voyages in the tiny yacht Mingming, carrying on from where Voyages of a Simple Sailor left off.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803551
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyages of a Simple Sailor written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a distillation of over 50 years of sailing experience, describing small-boat voyaging from a unique and deeply considered perspective.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803519
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers three extraordinary voyages in the tiny yacht Mingming, carrying on from where Voyages of a Simple Sailor left off.

Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099409823
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Gold Mountain written by Lisa See and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family`s antiques store in Los Angeles' Chinatown. There, her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colourful stories about their family`s past - stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. They spoke of how Lisa`s great-great-grandfather emigrated from his Chinese village to the United States, and how his son followed him. As an adult, See spent fives years collecting the details of her family`s remarkable history. She interviewd nearly one hundred relatives and pored over documents at the National Archives, the immigration office, and in countless attics, basements, and closets for the initmate nuances of her ancestors` lives. The result is a vivid, sweeping family portriat that is att once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America - and of America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles its immigrants like no other culture in the world.

Author : Thomas Braidwood Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage Round the World written by Thomas Braidwood Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aaron M. Ellison
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039213091
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems written by Aaron M. Ellison and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems that was published in Forests