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Sto caricando le informazioni... Rounding the Horndi Dallas Murphy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. In which the author crews on a small ship rounding the forbidding Cape Horn whilst interweaving the fortunes of various expeditions in the past. The book is well wrought, interesting and informative throughout. The author even, at least for a while, avoids the great peril of nautical books, viz., slinging around yachtsman jargon, but he eventually succumbs, and, yes, this book could use a glossary. At times his account of his own passage bogs down a bit when he gets overexcited about the finer points of ornithology, indigenous canoe design, and the like, but for the most part it approaches the interest level of his descriptions of expeditions missionary, exploratory, or naturalist. Maps are abundant, and need to be. I would have greatly appreciated some photos. ( ) 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. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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