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Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past
Sailing the Pacific A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth and a Journey into Its Past Author:Miles Hordern In hawser-taut prose recalling the works of Melville, Conrad, and Poe, Miles Hordern recounts his voyage on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest unin-ter-rupted stretch of water on earth, and the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and monumental swells. Taking into account those who have gone before him-writers, a... more »dventurers, fictional characters, cartographers, and doomed voyages, from the S.S. Whaleship Essex to the HMS Bounty-Hordern has written an unforget-table classic that is part sailing yarn, part adventure story, and part homage.« less