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I've dealt with Advanced Book Exchange (abebooks.com) for many years
and have found them to be a reliable place to find good deals on used
and out-of-print books. Abebooks represents a large network of used
book dealers. Once upon a time, you had to deal directly with each
individual dealer to make a purchase. Now, Abebooks acts as a middle-man,
making the buying process easier. This also makes it possible for me
to offer Abebooks as a service to users of this website.
You can search for any book you want:
Some of my favorites:
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Joshua Slocum
- The man who invented single-handed passage-making. In addition to the well-known standard
Sailing Alone Around The World, I particularly like
Voyage of the Liberdade. You can often find these two stories in the same book.
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Gavin Young
- Gavin's book,
Halfway Around the World,
published in the UK as
Slow Boats to China,
tells the wonderful and fantastic tale of the author's trip from Greece to China via a variety of vessels, mostly working ships and boats. Gavin specifically wanted to make the trip while it was still possible to travel by tramp steamer. His incredible adventures are related in a typically British matter-of-fact style, understating the drama of the trip.
The return voyage is related in
Slow Boats Home,
an equally enjoyable, if not as thrilling, a tale. Gavin's ready friendship with strangers of all cultures and walks of life is a central theme of these books, and undoubtedly made the trip possible.
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John Masefield
- John Masefield wrote quite a bit of poetry and prose about the sea. You probably know him
for his poem, Sea-Fever.
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely seat and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
I've got several of his books, but if I had to recommend just one, it would be
Salt Water Poems and Ballads,
which contains a good collection of his works, including Sea-Fever and a 37-page excerpt from
Dauber,
one of my favorites.
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Robert Wilder
- If you're planning a trip to the Abacos, I recommend reading
Wind From The Carolinas,
a historical fiction about the Loyalists who fled Charleston during the American Revolution and settled those islands.
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