Mingming Ii The Impossible Voyage

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : The FitzRoy Press
ISBN 13 : 0955803594
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming II & the Impossible Voyage written by Roger D. Taylor and published by The FitzRoy Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far to the north of Russia, across the cold waters of the Barents Sea, lies the desolate archipelago known as Franz Josef Land.

Author : ROGER D. TAYLOR
Publisher : Matador
ISBN 13 : 9781838593261
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming II and the Impossible Voyage written by ROGER D. TAYLOR and published by Matador. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far to the north of Russia, across the cold waters of the Barents Sea, lies the desolate archipelago known as Franz Josef Land. Hidden away still further to the north and west of those islands is one of the most inaccessible and least known seas on this planet - the Queen Victoria Sea. In his fifth book of voyages, Roger Taylor describes his successful attempt to sail into those lonely and usually icebound waters.On the way he weathers the most northerly point of the Svalbard islands before sailing due east along 81°North to the north-west coast of Franz Josef Land. Pack-ice would normally render such a route impossible.This voyage, which linked the endpoints of Taylor's two previous Arctic voyages to the north-west and north-east of Svalbard, marks the culmination of nearly fifty years of small-boat ocean sailing.Taylor has been described in the yachting press as 'one of the best sailing writers on this planets' and 'the best-balanced writer you will ever read'. His books combine vivid description with deep reflection, humour, an intimate knowledge of ocean species and a lifetime of practical sea-going experience.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803527
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers three extraordinary voyages in the tiny yacht Mingming, carrying on from where Voyages of a Simple Sailor left off.

Author : Chay Blyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Voyage written by Chay Blyth and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : The FitzRoy Press
ISBN 13 : 1739214218
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels Through a Window written by Roger D. Taylor and published by The FitzRoy Press. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his sixth book, singlehanded sailor Roger Taylor stays ashore and turns his gaze towards the rugged Scottish landscape and rich wildlife visible through his loch-side window. Written as a kind of cosmic travelogue, the book reconciles the bleakness and beauty of the human condition.

Author : Roger Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803500
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyages of a Simple Sailor written by Roger Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having narrowly survived a tropical storm on board the Endeavour II, Roger Taylor resolved that from then on he would only ever go to sea on his own terms, single-handed and in small, easily manageable yachts. This is his story.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : The FitzRoy Press
ISBN 13 : 095580356X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming II & the Island of the Ice written by Roger D. Taylor and published by The FitzRoy Press. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fourth book, singlehanded sailor Roger D. Taylor takes us once more to the remote corners of the Arctic. Sailing his newly-created yacht Mingming II, Roger ventures into the Baring Sea and explores the islands of north-eastern Svalbard. During the 55-day voyage to waters seldom sailed in, he encounters everything from walruses to inquisitive humpback whales to massive ice cliffs, and nearly rescues a beautiful Russian girl from Bear Island. On his way back he makes his third visit to the island of Jan Mayen, deep in the Norwegian Sea, and there fulfils a long-held ambition. Acutely observational and well-laced with Taylor’s wry humour, the book is as much an exploration of what is possible with one man, one simple boat and one home-made sail, as a journey to some of the planet’s bleakest and most beautiful islands.

Author : Laura Dekker
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1775490823
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Girl One Dream written by Laura Dekker and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing autobiographical account of the youngest ever solo circumnavigation of the Earth. First time in English! If you want to see the other side of the world, you can do two things: turn the world upside down, or travel there yourself. In 2012, at the age of just 16, Laura Dekker became the youngest sailor ever to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe. In realising her long-held dream, she had not only braved the wild oceans and long weeks of solitude at sea, but also the doubts and sometimes hostile resistance of officials. In this remarkable account of her incredible journey - for the first time in English - Laura describes in her own words what it is like to sail solo around the world, and the determination it takes to do it at such a young age. Exciting, awe-inspiring and inspirational, this is a real-life adventure for readers of all ages.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803535
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming and the Tonic of Wildness written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his third book singlehanded sailor Roger Taylor ventures to even more remote seas aboard his tiny junk-rigged yacht Mingming. The first voyage, across the North Atlantic to Baffin Island, is curtailed when Taylor is injured in a storm in the Davis Strait. Unwilling to sail on into the ice with a broken rib, he turns round and re-crosses the Atlantic to Plymouth, completing a non-stop voyage of over 4000 miles. The second voyage takes the reader to Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen and on to 80 North, virtually as close as it is possible to sail to the North Pole. During these two voyages Taylor spends well over four months at sea, observing and reflecting on the sea itself, its wildlife, its attraction, and man's uneasy relationship with it.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803519
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers three extraordinary voyages in the tiny yacht Mingming, carrying on from where Voyages of a Simple Sailor left off.