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- Into the wind : Around Alone : the story of the world's longest race / by Bartelme, Tony.(CARDINAL)626914; Hicks, Brian.;
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- Subjects: Around Alone (Yacht race); Yacht racing.; Single-handed sailing.;
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- Robert Stone / by Stone, Robert,1937-2015,author.; Bell, Madison Smartt,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1165-1223).Dog soliders -- A flag for sunrise -- Outerbridge reach.For the first time in one volume, three modern masterworks from the National Book Award-winning writer who has been called the American Graham Greene. Blurring the boundaries between literary fiction and political and military thrillers, Robert Stone was one of the most dynamic and critically acclaimed American writers of the last fifty years. Here, released in conjunction with Madison Smartt Bell's major new biography, is a deluxe edition gathering Stone's three finest novels, modern masterpieces about the dark underside of the American century. Stone's own experiences in Saigon inspired Dog Soldiers (1974), in which an ill-fated scheme to smuggle three kilos of heroin from South Vietnam to California comes to the attention of a corrupt drug enforcement official, setting in motion a lethal chase across a nightmarish landscape populated by poseurs, hustlers, psychopathic criminals, and failed gurus. Winner of the National Book Award, Dog Soldiers ranks with the work of Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien as a psychological reckoning with how Vietnam changed America. A Flag for Sunrise (1981) depicts of a leftist revolution in the fictious Central American country of Tecan and its impact on three North Americans: Justin Feeney, an idealistic nun; Frank Holliwell, an anthropologist who does favors for the CIA; and Pablo Tabor, an enraged Coast Guard deserter. Through their fates Stone explores the search for moral order in a terrifying universe beset by fear and evil. In Outerbridge Reach (1992) Owen Browne, a Navy veteran of Vietnam turned boat salesman, seeks to test his courage amid the materialism, corruption, and superficiality of 1980s America by entering a solo around-the-world yacht race. Alone in the South Atlantic, Browne discovers his capacity for deception and enlightenment in a sea tale worthy of Melville and Conrad.- Subjects: Psychological thriller.; Suspense fiction.; Life change events;
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- The Hal Roth seafaring trilogy : three true stories of adventure under sail / by Roth, Hal,1927-2008.(CARDINAL)727006; Roth, Hal,1927-2008.Longest Race.; Roth, Hal,1927-2008.Two against Cape Horn.; Roth, Hal,1927-2008.Two on a big ocean.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-255).Hal Roth s vivid, authentic tales of the sea have riveted readers around the world for forty years. Here, in one volume, are three of his classic sea stories, each one a white-knuckled, rail-down voyage into the unknown. A hard-working San Francisco husband and wife abandon their jobs, their security, and, some would say, their sanity to sail their 35-foot sloop to Japan and back the long way! Over the next nineteen months, they discover exotic islands, fascinating people, and a whole new way of life. A few years later these intrepid voyagers decide to try their luck against Cape Horn, but they will need a lot more than luck to survive the vicious storms, violent seas, and perilous shores of the world s most dangerous stretch of water. Then nine courageous sailors accept a challenge to do what has never been done before: to race alone, in a small sailboat, around the world nonstop. Only one will complete the race; seven will be forced to withdraw, and one will simply disappear.- Subjects: Sailing.; Sailboat racing.; Voyages and travels.;
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