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Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing

10 best books like Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing (John Rousmaniere): Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Sailing Alone around the World, Dove, Maiden Voyage, The Long Way, Gipsy Moth Circles the World, A Voyage for Madmen, Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters, At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
AuthorTony Horwitz
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again...
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
AuthorLaurence Bergreen
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...
Sailing Alone around the World
AuthorJoshua Slocum
ISBN0140437363
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.

Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting...
Dove
AuthorRobin Lee Graham
ISBN0060920475
I will date myself and say I had a huge crush on this guy as a young girl with a birthday subscription to National Geographic. (He contributed articles for years during his voyage) What adolescent (and I wasn't quite there) doesn't fantasize about quitting school and finding himself by sailing around...
Maiden Voyage
AuthorTania Aebi
ISBN0345410122
Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years it was her home, as she negotiated...
The Long Way
AuthorBernard Moitessier
ISBN0924486848
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs,...
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
AuthorFrancis Chichester
ISBN0340004843
When 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sail on his solitary,eastward journey around the world in 1966,many believed he wouldn't return alive. But when the old man returned in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV nine months later,he had made history's fastest circumnavigation. Gipsy Moth Circles the...
A Voyage for Madmen
AuthorPeter Nichols
ISBN0060957034
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame,...
Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
AuthorDerek Lundy
ISBN0385720009
"The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing--.  Lundy tells a harrowing tale, as tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air."--San Francisco Chronicle

A chilling account of the world's most dangerous sailing race, the Vendée Globe,...
At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane
AuthorJohn Kretschmer
ISBN0071475079
John Kretschmer is well known in the sailing community as a well-seasoned and experience bluewater skipper. In "At the Mercy of the Sea", he tells the story of three sailors who perished in Hurricane Lenny, which came through the Caribbean in 1999. One of the sailors who perished was John's own friend...
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
AuthorNicholas Tomalin
ISBN0071414290
The Sailor's Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sail

In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from England to participate in the first single-handed nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months...
A World of My Own: The first ever non-stop solo round the world voyage
AuthorRobin Knox-Johnston
ISBN0713668997
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost
unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her
helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili,
paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered and
brown, her...
Across Islands and Oceans
AuthorJames Baldwin
Across Islands and Oceans is the memoir of twenty-five year-old James Baldwin and his epic two-year, solo circumnavigation in Atom, his trusty but aging twenty-eight foot sailboat.

Early on and "as broke as [he] dared to be," James determined not only to sail around the world, but also to hike...
Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
AuthorRob Mundle
ISBN0071361405
"Harrowing shoreside reading."­­Booklist "Should be required reading for all ocean sailors."­­Library Journal The first book to recount the disastrous events of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race, Fatal Storm is sure to be a popular paperback selection. Rob Mundle takes readers through...
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