Sailing For Home

Author : Gloria Rand
Publisher : North South Books
ISBN 13 : 9780735820791
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Home written by Gloria Rand and published by North South Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Madsen's four children fondly recall their exciting experiences sailing with their father and mother on the bark John Ena at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Norman Fischer
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556439962
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Home written by Norman Fischer and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer’s Odyssey holds a timeless allure. It is an ancient story for every generation: the struggle of a man on a long and difficult voyage longing to return to love and family. Odysseus’s strivings to overcome both divine and earthly obstacles and to control his own impulsive nature hold valuable lessons for us as we confront the challenges of daily life. Sailing Home breathes fresh air into a classic we thought we knew, revealing its profound guidance for the modern seeker. Dividing the book into three parts—“Setting Forth,” “Disaster,” and “Return”—Fischer charts the course of Odysseus’s familiar wanderings. Readers come to see this ancient hero as a flawed human being who shares their own struggles and temptations, such as yielding to desire or fear or greed, and making peace with family. Featuring thoughtful meditations, illuminating anecdotes from Fischer’s and his students’ lives, and stories from many wisdom traditions including Buddhist, Judaic, and Christian, Sailing Home shows the way to greater purpose in our own lives. The book’s literary dimension expands its appeal beyond the Buddhist market to a wider spiritual audience and to anyone interested in the teachings of myth and story.

Author : Subhadra Sen Gupta
Publisher : Pratham Books
ISBN 13 : 8182632277
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Home written by Subhadra Sen Gupta and published by Pratham Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dave Franzel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493029819
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing written by Dave Franzel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quickly and easily master the sailing fundamentals you'll need to get out on the water.

Author : Bryon D. Anderson
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574091700
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Sailing Explained written by Bryon D. Anderson and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryon D Anderson is a writer and scientist with a special interest in sail.

Author : Christian Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997253108
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alone Together written by Christian Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307745457
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.

Author : LIZ. CLARK
Publisher : Patagonia
ISBN 13 : 9781952338229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swell written by LIZ. CLARK and published by Patagonia. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Edward Thompson
Publisher : Hachette Children's Books Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780733603792
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Home written by Colin Edward Thompson and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 1996 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After days of torrential rain, Peter's family wakes one morning to discover their house is adrift in the middle of the ocean, and so a wonderful adventure begins for them all.

Author : Gary Geddes
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443401455
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Home written by Gary Geddes and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully aware that his mythical home-place might have vanished forever into memory (or at least into sad disrepair), Gary Geddes set out to discover his roots in a 31-foot British sailing sloop, christened the Groais. Those tangled roots wound their way up British Columbia's famed Inside Passage, an ancient sea route of nearly one thousand miles, an often turbulent waterscape where Geddes discovers a vibrant history, livelihoods come and gone, dramatic scenery, and ghosts of the past. The result of that search is Sailing Home, a wonderful meditative literary journey that is both a poignant personal memoir and a crow's nest view of the west coast's rich 10,000-year cultural, social and economic heritage. Despite his seafaring background -- Geddes' grandfather was a fisherman who drowned mysteriously off Point Atkinson and his father was a deep sea diver, shipbuilder and salmon fisherman -- he knows he is navigationally challenged with nautical experience anchored by raw fear, mechanical ineptness and bouts of seasickness. Setting out with the latest in technology (along with indecipherable charts, an adventure library, and the writings of George Vancouver and Charles Darwin), he soon finds himself at the mercy of a willful boat and an even more headstrong sea. But as he sails through unexpected storms and cotton wool fogs, he discovers that his own past is becoming a strong current in the shifting tides of coastal history. Lyrical and evocative, this is a book for all those embarking on their own personal journeys, whether they be by water, land or the flight paths of the imagination.