Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing

By David Gowdey

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 alone
• Richard Henry Dana's extraordinary account of beginning a sailor's life
• Ted Turner's racing strategy
• Clare Francis on her transatlantic solo race
• Robert Louis Stevenson's emigrant passage of North America
• Jack London sailing in Polynesia

Plus portraits of:

• Dennis Conner
• Thomas Lipton
• Jacques Cousteau
• Ernest Shackleton
• The great schooner Bluenose
• and more

Title: Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing
Author: David Gowdey
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
Published: February 22, 1994
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780070237568
Binding: Paperback