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10 best books like Gipsy Moth Circles the World (Francis Chichester): Kon-Tiki, Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea, Sailing Alone around the World, Dove, Maiden Voyage, The Long Way, A Voyage for Madmen, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, Farthest North, No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb

Kon-Tiki
AuthorThor Heyerdahl
ISBN0671726528
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical...
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
AuthorRichard Henry Dana Jr.
ISBN1402179626
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.

While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour...
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,...
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,...
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
AuthorRobert Falcon Scott
ISBN0786703822
In November 1910, a ship called Terra Nova left New Zealand on its way south to Antarctica. On board was an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, a man determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. A year and a half later, Scott and three members of his team died during a brutal blizzard....
Farthest North
AuthorFridtjof Nansen
ISBN0375754725
In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount...
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
AuthorFelice Benuzzi
ISBN1558218769
Let me begin by stating that I am a climber and have a desire for adventure; sure, those might seem to go hand in hand, but how many climbers are willing to suffer in their thirst for adventure? My suffering has been hardly that, but the limited hardship I've endured has brought an appreciation for those...
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
AuthorGraham Bowley
ISBN0061834785
In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down by New York Times reporter Graham Bowley is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height... but second to no peak in terms of danger. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism...
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
AuthorJennifer Jordan
ISBN0060587156
Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back...
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
AuthorIvan Morris
ISBN1568360290
The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris's widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious, inbred, melancholy world of ancient Japan, has been a standard in cultural studies for nearly thirty years. Using as a frame of reference The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan's Heian...
No Highway
AuthorNevil Shute
ISBN1842322737
 Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous engineer whose eccentric interests are frowned upon in aviation circles. When a passenger plane crashes in Newfoundland under unexplained circumstances, Honey is determined to prove his unorthodox theory about what went wrong to his superiors, before...
South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917
AuthorFrank Hurley
THE DEFINITIVE AND SPELLBINDING RECORD OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, IMMORTALIZED ON FILM BY PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK HURLEY Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 was one of the great feats of human endurance -- one vividly captured in the powerful...
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing
AuthorJohn Rousmaniere
ISBN0393308650
It began in fine weather, then suddenly became a terrifying ordeal. A Force 10, sixty-knot storm swept across the North Atlantic with a speed that confounded forecasters, slamming into the fleet with epic fury. For twenty hours, 2,500 men and women were smashed by forty-foot breaking waves, while...
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...
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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