[Library ebook] Solo around Cape Horn: and beyond...
• Edward Allcard •
| #409154 in Books | 2016-12-31 | Original language:English | 9.21 x.53 x6.14l, | File Name: 0956072240 | 194 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The last Slocum-era sailing narrative.|By Graham L. Cox|Edward Allcard, who died in July aged 102, was one of my boyhood heroes 50 years ago. I was thrilled to read his new book. It is a sailor's yarn, a bit dry for general readers perhaps, though it does give an interesting portrait of a remote area and its people in the era before GPS units, sat-phones and internet connect||"The world is finally able to share in what is perhaps Edward Allcard's greatest solo cruise... A natural singlehander, Allcard reads like a man who is at peace with himself. His remarks on the intensity of being alone, written long before universal two-way r
Solo Around Cape Horn tells the story of a pioneering English yachtsman’s adventures in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in his elderly wooden ketch.
When Edward Allcard sailed south from the River Plate in 1966, he was heading into a territory which was almost entirely unknown to yachtsmen – but that was part of the attraction. Such trail-blazing adventures were nothing new for Allcard. In 1948 he had sailed alone from Gibraltar directly t...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Solo around Cape Horn: and beyond... | Edward Allcard.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
