The first voyage of the Joshua
by Bernard Moitessier
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Bernard Moitessier is a writer and one of France's most famous sailors.Tags
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Wiser, but still just as adventurous and expressive, this memoir relates Moitessier's honeymoon voyage. Not only the voyage he takes with his new wife, but also his honeymoon with the boat he built himself - this time created to be unsinkable. Their love of the boat does not stop the new couple from putting it through a rough series of tests with only a metal hull between them and the elements.
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Bernard Moitessier was born in 1925 in Vietnam and much of his sailing knowledge was gained during time spent at sea with the fishermen of the Gulf of Thailand. One of the greatest ocean voyagers, he became a legend in his time. He was also a gifted writer and wrote four books describing his seagoing adventures. He moved to France where he spent show more the last years of his life working on his memoirs, Tamata and the Alliance (Sheridan House, 1995), the story of an unusual man and an exciting life. Bernard Moitessier died in the summer of 1994. show less
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- Original title
- Cap Horn à la voile
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- Genres
- Travel, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sports and Leisure
- DDC/MDS
- 910.4 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Pirates & Shipwrecks
- LCC
- G464 .M5713 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Special voyages and travels
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- Languages
- 6 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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