At one with the sea

by Naomi James

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 009136860X
• ISBN13: 9780091368609
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A fresh honest yachting yarn with plenty of self-irony

This young Lass from NZ finds her "course" in life with a little help from some UK friends (incl. 53 feet of boat) and sets off to circumnavigate the globe. She was the first woman to do it (and female around the Horn alone) and that is maybe a much greater feat than by first man. Why you ask? Well, this circumnavigator was learning EVERYTHING on the go... Very little previous experience. Reading the book also brings back that only a "few years ago" sailers must cope with sextant, "dead reckoning" and radio. No satelite allerted helicopter rescue or 24 hour pin-point GPS navigation. Naomi was not only the first female long-distance hero, but maybe she was the last of the real "Classic Navigators". What makes her book special is that severe lack of experience and her disarming honesty about everything. When reading her account you also learn as you go and soon you can't help feeling as if you too are the lone sailor onboard "Express Crusader" bravely forging ahead. One of the most memorable books in this field I think. Recommended!