Speck on the Sea

Name: Speck on the Sea
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ISBN: 9780071413060

ISBN-10: 0071413065

ISBN-13: 9780071413060

Edition: 2003

Authors: William H. Longyard

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This text takes readers on a historic journey of the greatest small-boat voyages ever attempted. From the 16th-century Algerian slave who escaped in a folding rowboat to Peter Bird, who in the 1990s, died on his attempt to row across the Pacific, this book details these awe-inspiring adventures.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 6/24/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Introduction 63 A.D. - Sixteenth Century
The Fogbound Past Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Two Desperate Escapes 1865 - 1876
Victorian Venturers 1876 - 1900
The Paths of Glory 1900 - 1920
A World to Conquer 1920 - 1930s
Lovers and Other Losers The 1940s
Big Feat, Little Notice The 1950s
Goofy and Gallant The 1960s
Doing Your Own Thing The 1970s
The Pursuit of Happiness The 1980s
The Golden Decade The 1990s
Records and Redux The New Millennium
New Faces and Old To Sea or Not to Sea
Conclusion
Appendix
Rowers and Other Strangers
Appendix
Other Notable Voyages
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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