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Lädt ... Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives- (2005. Auflage)von Dallas Murphy
Werk-InformationenRounding the Horn von Dallas Murphy
![]() Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() I was surprised to find a book about a topic as interesting as Cape Horn boring. But that was the case with Dallas Murphy's "Rounding the Horn" -- it was so ho hum, I didn't bothering finishing it. I honesty thought I was going to love this book (...I was excited when in the opening pages he mentions "Uttermost Part of the Earth" by Lucas Bridges, which is a book I just adore.) But every time I picked "Rounding the Horn" up, I put it down again in just a couple of pages. The sections about other sailors (like Drake) were okay, but every other chapter was about Murphy's own sail around Cape Horn and those chapters just dragged the book down. I guess I was just expecting more out of this book. You can almost hear the wind in the rigging and taste the salt water as giant waves attack you. Very well written this is a history of exploration, a tale of ships in danger, a bit of natural history, biography and autobiography. Going to the furthest south city in the world or about to launch into the Drake Passage? Read this first. Recommended. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West: Cape Horn--a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America--is a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to Joseph Conrad. For centuries, the small stretch of water between Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula was the only gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It's a place where the storms are bigger, the winds stronger, and the seas rougher than anywhere else on earth.Dallas Murphy has always been sea-struck. In Rounding the Horn he undertakes the ultimate maritime rite of passage, and brings the reader along for a thrilling, exuberant tour. Weaving together stories of his own nautical adventures with long-lost tales of those who braved the Cape before him--from Spanish missionaries to Captain Cook--and interspersing them with breathtaking descriptions of the surrounding wilderness, Murphy has crafted an immensely enjoyable read. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)918.36History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in South America ChileKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:![]()
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