Subash, If you enjoyed that, try (if you haven't already) Chichester's "Along the Clipper Way". It's derived from the research he undertook (ie: books he read) while preparing for his circumnavigation.
And, of course, the all time classic of circumnavigation books is the original - Joshua Slocum's "Sailing Alone Around the World". When he found he was three miles off his computed position after crossing half the Pacific, Slocum checked the navigation tables and found an error. As a navigator, he was probably on a par with Bowditch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bowditch John On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:21:55 -0000, SJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/18/06, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 18/12/06, SJ, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >will keep an eye open for the Chichester book too. is it still in >> print? >> >> I found a copy in a used book shop for a couple of quid. >> >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Francis_Chichester> > > thanks cotty, that was one of the first sites i went to after seeing > your mail :) > > i still have a cheap paperback of "ringworld" bought in the 80s lying > around in a carton somewhere. quite liked it though i haven't read any > of the sequels. have i missed anything? :) > > regards, subash > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
