Sailing's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over nine hundred years of sailing

Sailing's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over nine hundred years of sailing

by JohnHarding (Author), John Harding (Author), John Harding (Author)

Synopsis

This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales.

Within these pages you'll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks to the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true.

Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for both keen sailors to the armchair Captains.

Word count: 45,000

$11.59

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: paperback
Publisher: Portico
Published:

ISBN 10: 1911042254
ISBN 13: 9781911042259

Author Bio
John Harding is a sports writer and an expert on the history of the Football Association. He has written extensively on sailing, boxing and football. He lives in London.