40 Sailing Books for Holiday Giving
A video compilation over ten years of classic and contemporary sailing books, any of which makes a marvelous gift–or addition to our own shelf. See below for timestamp location of titles.
Christian Williams books and audiobooks: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001H6IOB8?ingress=0&visitId=feead56c-3e9b-45da-8a77-2ef744b0dfd9
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03:52 Typhoon, Joseph Conrad
05:23 The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
07:16 Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
09:02 Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
11:22 The Curve of Time, M. Wylie Blanchet
12:57 Two Years Before the Mast, Richard H. Dana
14:09 N x E (North by East), Rockwell Kent
15:28 The Boy, Me and the Cat, Henry M. Plummer
18:28 World Cruising Routes, Jimmy Cornell
19:50 Boatowner’s Electrical and Mechanical Manual, Nigel Calder
20:40 Alone Through the Roaring 40s, Vito Dumas
21:38 Across Island and Oceans, James Baldwin
22:38 The Bounty Trilogy, Nordoff and Hall
23:47 Once is Enough, Miles and Beryl Smeeton
24:44 Joshua Slocum, Victor Slocum
25:37 The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier
25:55 Moby Dick, Herman Melville
27:58 Desolation Island, Patrick O’Brian
29:22 Harbors and High Seas (atlas to O’Brian novels)
30:17 A Sea of Words (lexicon of O’Brian novels)
32:00 Heavy Weather Sailing, Adlard Coles
32:15 Thucydides, Landmark edition
32:40 Campaigns of Alexander, Landmark edition
33:18 The Saga of Solace, Victor Clark
33:37 Gipsy Moth Circles the World, F. Chichester
33:40 Joshua Slocum, Victor Slocum
34:18 Varieties of Religious Experience, W. James
35:18 A History of Western Philosophy, B. Russell
35:50 The March Upcountry (Anabasis), Xenophon
36:22 Birds, a Field Guide
37:27 Plutarch’s Lives
37:00 The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier
37:22 Existentialism is a Humanism, Sartre
38:02 Cicero, Selected Works
39:28 The Fall, Albert Camus
39:35 The Voyage of the Beagle, Chas Darwin
40:59 Alone Across the Atlantic, F. Chichester
A video compilation over ten years of classic and contemporary sailing books, any of which makes a marvelous gift--or addition to our own shelf. See below for timestamp location of titles.
Christian Williams books and audiobooks: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001H6IOB8?ingress=0&visitId=feead56c-3e9b-45da-8a77-2ef744b0dfd9
00:00
03:52 Typhoon, Joseph Conrad
05:23 The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
07:16 Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
09:02 Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
11:22 The Curve of Time, M. Wylie Blanchet
12:57 Two Years Before the Mast, Richard H. Dana
14:09 N x E (North by East), Rockwell Kent
15:28 The Boy, Me and the Cat, Henry M. Plummer
18:28 World Cruising Routes, Jimmy Cornell
19:50 Boatowner's Electrical and Mechanical Manual, Nigel Calder
20:40 Alone Through the Roaring 40s, Vito Dumas
21:38 Across Island and Oceans, James Baldwin
22:38 The Bounty Trilogy, Nordoff and Hall
23:47 Once is Enough, Miles and Beryl Smeeton
24:44 Joshua Slocum, Victor Slocum
25:37 The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier
25:55 Moby Dick, Herman Melville
27:58 Desolation Island, Patrick O'Brian
29:22 Harbors and High Seas (atlas to O'Brian novels)
30:17 A Sea of Words (lexicon of O'Brian novels)
32:00 Heavy Weather Sailing, Adlard Coles
32:15 Thucydides, Landmark edition
32:40 Campaigns of Alexander, Landmark edition
33:18 The Saga of Solace, Victor Clark
33:37 Gipsy Moth Circles the World, F. Chichester
33:40 Joshua Slocum, Victor Slocum
34:18 Varieties of Religious Experience, W. James
35:18 A History of Western Philosophy, B. Russell
35:50 The March Upcountry (Anabasis), Xenophon
36:22 Birds, a Field Guide
37:27 Plutarch's Lives
37:00 The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier
37:22 Existentialism is a Humanism, Sartre
38:02 Cicero, Selected Works
39:28 The Fall, Albert Camus
39:35 The Voyage of the Beagle, Chas Darwin
40:59 Alone Across the Atlantic, F. Chichester
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