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| Introduction: Why Would Anyone Cross an Ocean in a Small Boat? | |
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| The Fogbound Past: 63 AD-16th Century | |
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| Inuit Kayakers Get Lost | |
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| Saint Brendan the Non-Navigator | |
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| Diego Mendez Saves Columbus | |
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| Two Desperate Escapes: the 17th and 18th Centuries | |
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| William Okeley Rows for His Soul | |
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| Captain Bligh Saves Souls | |
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| Victorian Venturers: 1865-1876 | |
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| God's Paddler, John MacGregor | |
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| Three Jeers for the Red, White & Blue | |
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| Inflated Dreams: The Nonpareil | |
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| Vanishing Beauty: The Vision | |
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| The John T. Ford: A Tragedy in One Act | |
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| The City of Ragusa Saga | |
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| Paul Boyton Floats to Glory and Coney Island | |
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| The Paths of Glory: 1876-1900 | |
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| Alfred Johnson's Centennial | |
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| Take Your Wife, Please: The Crapos | |
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| Nathaniel Bishop Leaves His Cranberry Bog | |
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| Tanneguy de Wogan: The Paper Paddler | |
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| The Andrews Brothers | |
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| Norman and Thomas's Little Western | |
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| The Little Tub That Could: The City of Bath | |
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| Bernard Gilboy Leaves Home | |
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| Andrews Solo | |
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| The Mermaid vs. the Sea Serpent | |
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| The Christopher Columbus Gets Soaped | |
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| Norwegian Clammers Row for the American Dream | |
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| Fingerless Blackburn | |
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| Till Death Do Them Part | |
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| A World to Conquer: 1900-1920 | |
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| The Man Who Didn't Circumnavigate | |
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| The Egg That Didn't Go Over Easy | |
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| Yakaboo and a Poet, Too | |
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| Stiff and Frozen Upper Lips: Shackleton and Worsley | |
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| The Mystery of Hope Cove | |
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| Lovers and Other Losers: 1920-1930s | |
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| Franz Romer: Canoeist or Kayaker? | |
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| Liebe Story: Paul and Aga Muller | |
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| Leaving Latvia: The Rebell Yell | |
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| Ivy League Vagabonds | |
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| Big Feat, Little Notice: The 1940s | |
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| Three Men in a Rubber Raft | |
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| Navy Hero Poon Lim: Thanks, Now Leave | |
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| Jack Schultz: Like Father, Like Son | |
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| Like Father, Like Daughter | |
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| Postwar Hopes: The Nova Espero | |
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| Goofy and Gallant: The 1950s | |
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| Jeeps Can Cross Anything, Including Oceans | |
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| Once More for Nova Espero | |
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| Sweet Sopranino | |
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| Dr. Bombard's Bombast? | |
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| Escape from the Foreign Legion but Not the Sharks | |
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| Trekka: Boy Makes Good | |
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| By Log Across the Atlantic | |
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| L'Egare Earns Its Merit Badge, Sorta | |
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| Dr. Lindemann Crosses in a Real Kayak | |
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| What's a Nice Balloon Like You Doing on an Ocean Like This? | |
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| Doing Your Own Thing: The 1960s | |
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| The Craig and the River Goddess | |
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| Kenichi Horie Brings Shame and Glory to His Family | |
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| Young John Riding vs. the OSTAR Geezers | |
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| Robert Manry Fights Suburbia on the Atlantic | |
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| The West Wight Potter Story | |
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| The Birth of the "Capsule" Boat | |
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| The First Great Rowing Race | |
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| Francis Brenton: Transoceanic on the Cheap | |
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| William Willis: Have Hernia, Will Travel | |
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| Jet Jockey Makes an April Fool of Himself | |
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| The Shagadelic Rower | |
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| The Pursuit of Happiness: The 1970s | |
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| By Lugger to Australia | |
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| Aoki and Van Ruth | |
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| David Blagden Tames a Willing Griffin | |
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| There's No Place Like Home, Thankfully: Shane's Shrimpy | |
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| Bas's Boat | |
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| Webb Chiles in an Open Boat | |
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| Mexican Minimalist Mariner Carlos Aragon | |
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| Spiess Girl | |
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| The Golden Decade: The 1980s | |
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| New Technology | |
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| Don't Forget the Catamarans: The Rag Tag Fleet | |
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| Starkell and Sons: Epic Canoeists | |
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| Sven the Swede: The Edison of Small-Boat Builders | |
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| Three Men Duke It Out for Who's Smallest | |
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| The 500 Days of Serge Testa | |
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| Ed Gillet Kayaks and Kites to Hawaii | |
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| French Impressions | |
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| Records and Redux: The 1990s | |
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| Stephen Ladd Squeaks through a War Zone | |
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| "Ant" Steward Does It in the Open | |
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| We're Great, But Don't Tell Anyone | |
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| Friends and Foes: Vihlen vs. McNally | |
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| Delaging the Question | |
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| Gvodev and Glasnost | |
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| Lecomte Swims for Love | |
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| New Faces and Old: The New Millennium | |
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| It's a Girl! | |
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| Elvis Has Left the Marina | |
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| The Humpback Kayak | |
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| The Glory of Spain on a Sea-Doo | |
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| Conclusion: To Sea, or Not to Sea: That is the Question | |
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| A Final Warning Before You Go | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Rowers and Other Strangers | |
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| Other Notable Voyages | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Art Sources | |
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| Index | |