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Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic

1972 Atlantic Ocean
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Release : 1972
Genre : Atlantic Ocean
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Book Synopsis Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic by : John Fairfax

Download or read book Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic written by John Fairfax. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the harrowing details of a six-month, 4,500 nautical-mile trip across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic

1972 Nature
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Book Synopsis Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic by : John Fairfax

Download or read book Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic written by John Fairfax. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Completely Mad

2023-07-04 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2023-07-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Completely Mad by : James R. Hansen

Download or read book Completely Mad written by James R. Hansen. This book was released on 2023-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone. In this bracing adventure tale, the stories of John Fairfax and Tom McLean are woven together for the first time. Fairfax would set off from the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa with his sights on Florida. McClean charted a course from Newfoundland to Ireland. The two men couldn’t have been more different. John Fairfax was a golden-haired playboy, gambler, whiskey, gun smuggler, and ex-pirate who blamed his boat often, and who brazenly took time off from his goal of reaching America to hop aboard large ships for a drink, a shower, and good food. He courted the press like a modern-day Richard Branson or Elon Musk. The egoless Tom McClean was an orphan with a tough, Dickensian childhood, who ran off to become a British paratrooper and later joined the SAS (his training rivaled the U.S. Navy Seals). Tom was a purist who loved his boat Silver and never once took time off from rowing to sun himself on a remote beach or jump aboard a cruise ship. After 70 days, he landed on the rocky coast of Ireland to no fanfare and headed straight to the nearest pub. Though the two men’s remarkable transoceanic journeys seem pulled from a different era, both embarked within days of the first landing on the Moon: July 20th, 1969. Filled with gale-force winds, backbreaking effort, menacing sharks, playful dolphins, awing natural beauty, great mishaps, failed equipment, hyperthermia, near-drowning, the fighting of mental and physical lethargy, creative problem-solving, phantom illusions on the water, and glorious moments of bliss, Completely Mad stands alongside other classics of ocean adventure. With gripping and insightful prose, James R. Hansen brings to life Fairfax and McLean's expeditions, from their battle with the elements to their own inner demons. Completely Mad is a nail-biting, epic tale of endurance, and readers will be gripped until the end to find out who won.

The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Past Year

2012-10-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2012-10-30
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Book Synopsis The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Past Year by : William McDonald

Download or read book The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Past Year written by William McDonald. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning for its second year but reimagined in a new impulse format, with a new title, new cover, new mission, and new sensibility, here is The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands, a pithier, quirkier collection of the 164 best page-turning obituaries from The New York Times. Written by top journalists, each story is a gem of a bio, a full life in miniature. There’s the famous: Steve Jobs, including the story of how he was reunited with a sister he never knew, the novelist Mona Simpson. And the almost famous: Ruth Stone, a poet who worked in relative obscurity until she won the National Book Award at the age of 87. The behind-the-scenes, like Arch West, inventor of the Dorito, who pulled America’s snacks out of the 1950s doldrums and created a $5-billion-a-year product, and the out-there, like self-styled anarchist and maverick artist (and real estate mogul and museum director) Bob Cassilly, who died at the controls of his bulldozer while building “Cementland” in St. Louis. And because of the chronological organization of the book, the stories, one next to the other, make for an addictive-as-salted-peanuts book: Mark O. Hatfield, the celebrated antiwar Republican senator from Oregon, next to Nancy Wake of the title, the impoverished New Zealander who grew up to become a high-society hostess and heroine of the French Resistance—the socialite who did, indeed, kill a Nazi with her bare hands.

British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals

2003 Athletes
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Release : 2003
Genre : Athletes
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Book Synopsis British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals by : Richard William Cox

Download or read book British Sport: Biographical studies of British sportsmen, sportswomen, and animals written by Richard William Cox. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

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