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Eric Charles Hiscock MBE (14 March 1908 – 15 September 1986) was a British sailor and author of books on small boat sailing and ocean cruising. [1] Together with his wife and crew Susan Oakes Hiscock MBE (née Sclater; 18 May 1913 – 12 May 1995), he authored numerous accounts of their short cruises and world circumnavigations, accomplished over several decades.
Sailors are well aware of the inherent risks of sailing, and even in the 21st century, "fishers and related fishing workers" in the U.S. have the second most dangerous occupation. [1] From ancient times to the 20th Century, sailing has been seen as a risky activity; in Psalm 107 (106 in the Latin Vulgate version):
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
(Cruising World, January 2001) contains an approximately 30-year retrospective view on the original 1970 account by Tomalin and Hall. Amazing Sailing Stories: True Adventures from the High Seas (2011) by Dick Durham includes a chapter on Crowhurst entitled "Sailing into Madness", with some recent comments from Donald's son, Simon Crowhurst.
The Cruise of the Snark (1911) [1] is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew.
The story was adapted into comic book form by Classics Illustrated in 1941 and 1947. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In Chapter 7 of his Is Shakespeare Dead? , Mark Twain contrasts passages from Dana's book with a passage from The Tempest to demonstrate Shakespeare 's lack of seafaring knowledge, which is then further contrasted with Shakespeare's correct usage ...
Robin Lee Graham (born March 5, 1949) is an American sailor.He set out to sail around the world alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. National Geographic magazine carried the story in installments (October 1968, April 1969, October 1970), and he co-wrote a book, titled Dove, detailing his journey.
Richard Turrill McMullen (1830–1891) was a British yachtsman known as a pioneer of small sail boat cruising. [1] [2] Richard McMullen. Sailing Leo.