Reading to Sail
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ~ Dr. Seuss , I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! Which holds so true for me. The more I read the more I discover and desire to do. With the increased interest in sailing and all things nautical, I've been reading all I can about sail trips and sailors. Here I've listed a few that stood out for me. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Just at the time that the whaling industry was in its last throes, a whaler attempts to hunt and kill the largest whale ever spotted. Only to become the hunted, with the whale turning on the whaling fleet and wrecking havoc on them all. The survivors turn to cannibalism in a last ditch attempt at survival. A story that reminds us to be mindful of nature’s willfulness at all times A Voyage for Mad Men by Peter Nichols Recounts the first Golden Globe Race, a solo circumnavigation in a sail boa