Thames to Tahiti
by Sidney Howard
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Cynfelyn Thames to Tahiti, ch. 20-22, deals with Howard's time at Takaroa in 1932, as Berge's guest.
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Accompanied by John Johnstone, a Dover yachtsman, the author sailed his 38ft cutter Pacific Moon from Dover to the Pacific. Sailing west, they visited Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde, crossing the Atlantic and through the Panama Canal, they made a 4,000 mile non stop sail to the Marquesas and on to Tahiti.
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Mr. Howard's narrative is sober and simple. It is, in fact, so well written that a reader is under way, well on in the voyage to the South Seas, before he pauses to reflect that he is in excellent company.
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- Original publication date
- 1933
- People/Characters
- Sidney Howard; John W. Johnstone; Pacific Moon (38-foot auxiliary cutter yacht); Victor Berge
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- To John
- First words
- Nearly everyone wants to go to the South Seas and visit the most wonderful islands in the Seven Seas - but the bonds of habit and the duties and obligations of the average person's normal life prevent the desire from being ac... (show all)complished.
Chapter I. Gate to adventure. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)One endures hardship: the reward is to have been for awhile in unison with a sense of the beauty of the Infinite.
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- Tomlinson, H. M.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- 1st pub., 1933; 1st pub. in the Mariners Library, 1951.
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- Nonfiction, Travel
- DDC/MDS
- 910.45 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Pirates & Shipwrecks Ocean voyages, pirates
- LCC
- GV822 .P3 .H6 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Water sports: Canoeing, sailing, yachting, scuba
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