![]() Only nine yachts had previously circumnavigated by way of Cape Horn, and of them six had been capsized or somersaulted at least once. Francis Chichester, at age 65, set out alone from Plymouth in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV in August 1966 and sailed eastward around the world through the wild Southern Ocean, stopping only once (the first to accomplish this), in Sydney. ![]() The voyages might circle the world or circle Long Island Sound, but each one alters its narrator and, thanks to the power of its telling, the reader. However fascinating those stories are - and however much in vogue - The Sailor's Classics plow a different furrow, retracing the birth and development of small-boat voyaging over the past century-plus, as experienced and related by small crews or lone sailors. or government-sponsored voyages of exploration to Antarctica or the Northwest Passage. ![]() The Sailor's Classics are not books about the old sailing navies, or whaling voyages. ![]() ![]() This is Volume 1 in The Sailor's Classics series which is the sailing canon with Raban as arbiter: books that altered the shape of small-boat voyaging and exert a telling influence to this day. ![]()
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