A Ship Without A Sail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Ship Without A Sail write by Gary Marmorstein. This book was released on 2013-07-16. A Ship Without A Sail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lorenz Hart, together with Richard Rodgers, created some of the most beautiful and witty songs ever written. Here is the story of the strikingly unromantic life of this songwriting genius. His lyrics spin with brilliance and sophistication, yet at their core is an unmistakable wistfulness. Rodgers and Hart, who wrote approximately thirty Broadway musicals and dozens of songs for Hollywood films, were an odd couple. Rodgers was precise, punctual, heterosexual, handsome, and eager to be accepted by society. Hart was barely five feet tall, alcoholic, homosexual, and more comfortable in a bar or restaurant than anywhere else. His lyrics are all the more remarkable considering that he never sustained a romantic relationship, living his entire life with his mother, who died only months before his own death at 48. Biographer Marmorstein superbly portrays the life of this exuberant yet troubled artist.--From publisher description.
Desperate Voyage
Desperate Voyage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desperate Voyage write by John Caldwell. This book was released on 2020-06-01. Desperate Voyage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In May 1946 John Caldwell set out to sail from Panama to Sydney to reunite with his wife who he hadn't seen for more than a year. Eager to reach his destination and unable to secure any other form of transport, he had to resort to singlehanded seamanship. After an ignominious scene in the harbor, where a tangled anchor led him to take an early dip, he spent ten days learning the rudiments of navigation and sailing from a book, before embarking on the 9,000 mile journey aboard the 20-foot Pagan. Ahead lay a mission that was to reveal in him elements not only of astounding courage and determination, but also of incredible foolhardiness. Within 500 miles of Panama John Caldwell had already been shipwrecked once and had his boat's engine and cockpit destroyed by an angry shark. Indefatigable, he decided to press on towards his goal.He endured the terrors and discomforts of life on the high seas and enjoyed the triumphs of fighting and winning against the elements. This is more than an exciting tale of sea-adventure. It is as compelling and unpredictable as a thriller. It is the story, witty and moving, of a man, motivated initially by love, and ultimately by his own fierce determination to survive.
First You Have to Row a Little Boat
First You Have to Row a Little Boat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First You Have to Row a Little Boat write by Richard Bode. This book was released on 2013-05-21. First You Have to Row a Little Boat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now with a brand new foreword from New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Zaslow. FIRST YOU HAVE TO ROW A LITTLE BOAT first hit shelves in the mid 1990s and has been inspiring readers ever since. Written by a grown man looking back on his childhood, it reflects on what learning to sail taught him about life: making choices, adapting to change, and becoming his own person. The book is filled with the spiritual wisdom and thought-provoking discoveries that marked such books as Walden, The Prophet, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For nearly twenty years, it has enchanted and endeared sailors and non-sailors alike, but foremost, anyone who seeks large truths in small things. This refurbished edition will find a place in the hearts of a whole new generation of readers.
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Annapolis Book of Seamanship write by John Rousmaniere. This book was released on 2014-01-07. The Annapolis Book of Seamanship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Completely revised and updated to address changes in technology and safety standards, this new edition is the definitive guide to the art and science of sailing. Since the publication of the first edition in 1983, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship has set the standard by which other books on sailing are measured.
The Hard Way Around
The Hard Way Around - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hard Way Around write by Geoffrey Wolff. This book was released on 2011-11-29. The Hard Way Around available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
