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10 best books like Maiden Voyage (Tania Aebi): Sailing Alone around the World, Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge, Dove, The Long Way, Gipsy Moth Circles the World, A Voyage for Madmen, The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey, The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race, Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters, The Last Grain Race

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...
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
AuthorJill Fredston
ISBN0865476551
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland,...
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...
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,...
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
AuthorLinda Greenlaw
ISBN0786885416
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her...
The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race
AuthorG. Bruce Knecht
ISBN0316499552
On December 26, 1998, 115 sailboats set out on the annual race from Sydney to Hobart; only 43 would make it to the Tasmanian city, the race having turned into the worst modern sailing disaster since the 1979 Fastnet Race. Combining the best elements of The Perfect Storm (W.W. Norton, 1997) and Barbarians...
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,...
The Last Grain Race
AuthorEric Newby
ISBN0864427689
In 1938 an eighteen-year-old boy signed on for the round trip from Europe to Australia in the last commercial sailing fleet to make that formidable journey. The four-masted barque Moshulu ended up as a dockside restaurant in Philadelphia; the young apprentice went on to become one of the greatest travel...
Wanderer
AuthorSterling Hayden
ISBN1574090488
Since its publication in 1963, Sterling Hayden's autobiography, Wanderer, has been surrounded by controversy. The author was at the peak of his earning power as a movie star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, broke as an outlaw,...
The Incredible Voyage
AuthorTristan Jones
ISBN0924486902
In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga--a six year voyage during which he a covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world--revealing both a rich sense of history an insuppressible Welsh wit. With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as nay hazard...
The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea
AuthorKevin Patterson
ISBN0385498845
Wise, funny and beautifully written, The Water in Between is an inspiring-and cautionary-tale for anyone who has ever wanted to escape into another life.

A stint in the army and a broken heart lead Kevin Patterson, who has never sailed before, to buy a 37-foot sailboat. He recruits a more experienced...
North To The Night: A Spiritual Odyssey In The Arctic
AuthorAlvah Simon
ISBN1840183608
In June of 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on his boat, frozen in ice 100 miles from the nearest...
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...
Hen Frigates
AuthorJoan Druett
ISBN0684839687
In the tradition of The Midwife's Tale and Pioneer Women -- an intimate portrait of the courageous wives of sailing ship captains in the last century, told for the first time in their own words, through journals and letters.Maritime historian Joan Druett takes us into the wildly colorful, dangerous,...
Captain James Cook: A Biography
AuthorRichard Hough
ISBN0393315193
James Cook, born in 1728, was one of the most celebrated navigators/explorers of his time. His voyages in the Royal Navy to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific, the Arctic, and the Antarctic brought a new understanding of the geography and of the peoples, flora,...
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...
True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took On The World
AuthorJessica Watson
ISBN0733624979
True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took on the World by Jessica Watson
Reviewed by: Kimberly Reikow
Have you ever dreamed of going on an adventure to a far off land all by yourself? What if that adventure took you throughout the major oceans in the world? From October of 2009 to May of 2010, 16 year...
Taking on the World
AuthorEllen MacArthur
ISBN0141006978
When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes people feel like they can do anything!

This is her story, written intrue Ellen style, in her own words, without the help...
Close to the Wind
AuthorPete Goss
ISBN0786707410
On November 3, 1996, former Royal Marine Pete Goss embarked on the most grueling competition in his sailing career: the Vendée Globe, a nonstop, single-handed round-the-world yacht race. For the next seven weeks he met every challenge in his stormy path, from combating waves the height of six-story...
Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Greatest Disaster in Modern Sailing History
AuthorNick Ward
ISBN1596914556
In August of 1979, Nick Ward began the 600-mile course of the UK's Fastnet Race with perfect weather. Within 48 hours, the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea. By the time it had passed, it had thrown one of the world's most prestigious races into bedlam and...
My Old Man and the Sea
AuthorDavid Hays
ISBN0060976969
Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Some play ball. David Hays and Daniel Hays sailed 17,000 miles through the world's most feared and fabled waters in a little boat they built together. This is their story. Alone with nothing but the mammoth waves of the Southern Ocean, the unceasing wind, a compass,...
Overboard!: A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
AuthorMichael J. Tougias
ISBN1439145741
It's a testament to Michael Tougias's writing that he so well captures the human spirit and resolve for survival in Overboard! : a true bluewater odyssey of disaster and survival. This is a book that I could not put down and yet it is not a book I can say I loved. How do you love a book with tragic results?

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