The Quotable Sailor - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159228356X ISBN 13: 9781592283569

Verlag: The Lyons Press, 2004

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Anyone who loves sailing will find hours of reading pleasure and endless inspiration in The Quotable Sailor. Spanning the centuries from Homer's Odyssey right up to the America's Cup, this collection includes quotations from:
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- Eugene O'Neill
- John F. Kennedy
- Sir Francis Chichester
- Ted Heath
- Hilaire Belloc
- Joseph Conrad
- Farley Mowat
- Ann Davison
- Ted Turner
- Henrik Ibsen
- Jimmy Buffet
- Rachel Carson
- K. Adlard Coles
- Herman Melville
- Sterling Hayden
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Sir Walter Raleigh

The Quotable Sailor features some of the finest things ever said about sailing, the sea, boats, the weather, engines, racing, and philosophy. Whether for a yachtsman, sea salt, riverboat captain, or marine, The Quotable Sailor is the ideal consolation for being ashore-as well as the perfect gift.

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Christopher Caswell has been a boating enthusiast and journalist for more than thirty years. He was the senior editor of Yachting magazine for ten years, the editor of Sea magazine for seven years, and writes regularly for the major boating publications. He is the author of five other books, including Smarter Charters, Megayachts 2000, The Illustrated Book of Basic Boating, and Championship Dinghy Sailing.

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Anyone who loves sailing will find hours of reading pleasure and endless inspiration in The Quotable Sailor. Spanning the centuries from Homer's Odyssey right up to the America's Cup, this collection includes quotations from:

Eugene O'Neill Sir Francis Chichester
Hilaire Belloc Farley Mowat
Henrik Ibsen K. Adlard Coles
Herman Melville Sterling Hayden
Sir Walter Raleigh

The Quotable Sailor features some of the finest things ever said about sailing, the sea, boats, the weather, engines, racing, and philosophy. Whether for a yachtsman, sea salt, riverboat captain, or marine, The Quotable Sailor is the ideal consolation for being ashore - as well as the perfect gift.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 159228356X
• ISBN 13: 9781592283569
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
• Herausgeber: Caswell Christopher
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