Sailing's Strangest Tales

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Sailing's Strangest Tales

True stories of heroism, endurance and survival Maritime history Sailing / yachting Navigation and seamanship Maritime and nautical trades Ships and boats: general interest Humour collections and anthologies Travel writing

Author: John Harding

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Language: English

Published by: Portico

Published on: 8th August 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781911042655


Introduction

This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales.

Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks to the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true.

Details

Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for both keen sailors and the armchair Captains.

Word count: 45,000

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