Voyaging Pacific Australian Edition: in Search of the South - Softcover

Miles Hordern

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9780719564826: Voyaging Pacific Australian Edition: in Search of the South

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ISBN 10: 0719564824 ISBN 13: 9780719564826

Publisher: John Murray General Publishing Division, 2002

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In 1997, Miles Hordern sailed alone across the Southern Ocean from New Zealand to Patagonia and back, a voyage of 13,000 nautical miles across the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth. In this book he conjures up the experience of the eighteen-month journey so vividly, the reader can almost feel the motion of the boat.

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About the Author

Miles Hordern was born in 1965 and grew up in land-locked Worcestershire. He learned to sail in the tidal waters of the Channel Islands and in a Midlands gravel pit. In 1988 he crossed the South Seas for the first time, working his passage on a 50-foot Australian ketch. Two years later he sailed single handed from Britain to New Zealand.

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'Hordern writes vividly about the rhythms and sights of life afloat, and about a landscape composed not of immovable objects but of ever-shifting wind and water.' -- Daily Telegraph 'Beautifully written, fresh and surprising. Hordern has done a splendid job' -- Mail on Sunday 'As well as an enthralling adventure, the book chronicles an inner journey of self-discovery. Hordern captures the thrill, romance and anxieties of ocean sailing ... a highly readable book by a gifted new writer. Don't miss it' -- Yachting Monthly 'Not unlike Conrad, Hordern demonstrates that a sense of superfluousness often felt by the adventurous modern traveller can be - at great personal risk - transmuted into a kind of physical essentialism by excluding the rest of humanity and testing oneself, against onself, in extremis' -- Times Literary Supplement 'Full of humour and historical insight, this book has the toughness of the classic survivor. It's the next best thing to actually going yourself' -- Global Adventure

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