Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing
by By Gowdey, David (EDT)
Category: Sports & Recreation , Sailing

Words of wisdom, humor, practical advice, and ripping yarns.Twenty-five selections from some of the world's most famous authors and sailors.Read about:Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail around the world aloneRichard Henry Dana's extraordinary account of beginning a sailor's lifeTed Turner's racing strategyClare Francis on her transatlantic solo raceRobert Louis Stevenson's emigrant passage of North AmericaJack London sailing in PolynesiaPlus portraits of:Dennis ConnerThomas LiptonJacques CousteauErnest ShackletonThe great schooner Bluenoseand more