Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper: Lyons Press Maritime Classics [Idioma Inglés]

Kretschmer, John

ISBN 10: 1493035290 ISBN 13: 9781493035298

Verlag: The Lyons Press, 2018

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John Kretschmer has an easygoing style that will ingratiate the reader from the very start of this book. It is a look at what a life at sea can mean to a person, and it is extremely well-written and easy to follow. Plenty of good insight into what can be expected when you are out there for days at a time. Consisting of anecdotes from his sailing career, this book is highly recommended for those who plan to go cruising. * Latitudes & Attitudes * Wildly festooned with adventure, romance and outrageous characters. * Miami Herald * Filled with a myriad of sea stories...all delivered with a wry and self-deprecating sense of humor. * Sailing * I would highly recommend this book to anyone [with] a sense of adventure and romance. * Good Old Boat *

Reseña del editor:

The adventure-laden tales of a sailboat delivery skipper, in his own words. Consistently captivating, John Kretschmer's stories are alternately funny and harrowing. Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he disocvers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in "a high impact debris zone," but his resolve is unshaken. "If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank [me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega,a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be.". NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: The Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1493035290
• ISBN 13: 9781493035298
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224