Sailing's Strangest Tales
Published on 8. August 2016
256 pages
978-1-911042-65-5 (ISBN)
Description
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
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
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-911042-65-5 (9781911042655)
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John Harding
Sailing's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories from over nine hundred years of sailing
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08/2016
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Medieval Murder Mystery (1120)
- How High is the Ocean (How Deep is the Sky)? (1212)
- Eustace the Piratical Monk (1217)
- Shakespeare's Tempestuous Sea Venture (1609)
- The Flying Dutchman (1680-1959)
- Two Gay Buccaneers (1700S)
- The Ghostly Lady of Goodwin Sands (1748)
- 'Toll for the Brave!' (1782)
- 'I Put a Message in a Bottle .' (1784-1999)
- Captain Bligh's Amazing Journey (1789)
- A Constellation of Ghosts (1797-1999)
- William Wordsworth's Deep Distress (1804)
- Dying for a Bite (1826)
- The Quixote (1831)
- Amazing Grace (1838)
- Power and the President (1841)
- Hard Rations: Death in the Arctic (1846)
- Magical Mystery Tour (1854)
- Tragedy on Ice (1855)
- Not Just a Pretty Face (1857)
- There's Gold in that Thar Ship, Look You! (1859)
- The Runaway Schooner (1866)
- The Empress and the Gazelle (1870)
- The Haunted (Light) House (1871 & 1885)
- The Mary Celeste (1872)
- The Fosdyk Saga and Other Theories (1872)
- 'Drowning in the Drink' (1872)
- Gone with the Wind! (1878)
- Ghostly Gallions Reach (1878)
- The Mysterious Loss of the Atalanta (1879)
- The Fisherman who Lost his Fingers (1883)
- The 'Custom of the Sea' (1884)
- What Shall we do with the Headless Sailor? (1890)
- When Britannia Ruled the Waves (1890S)
- Galleon in the Mist (1891)
- The New England 'Titanic' (1898)
- 'That Intrepid Hero' (1899)
- The Phantom Boat (1900)
- A 'Most Brutal Thing' (1904)
- A Sad But Amazing Coincidence (1908)
- Ship Wrecked By a Meteor (1908)
- Joshua Slocum (Almost) Meets Christopher Columbus (1909)
- Lost Child of the Titanic (1912)
- Great Lakes Disaster (1913)
- Dulcibella and the Riddle of the Sands (1916)
- We'll Meet Again (1916)
- The Haunted Sub (1916)
- The Mystery Ship of Diamond Shoals (1920)
- Sailing's Serial Killer? (1920S)
- Murder on the Oneida? (1924)
- Hollywood's Yacht (1935)
- Rescued in a Sandwich Box (1940)
- Dunkirk's Little Ena (1940)
- The Old Men of the Sea (1942)
- Poon Lim's Enduring Legacy (1942)
- The Yachts in Errol Flynn's Life (And Death) (1942 & 1970S)
- The Leopoldville Disaster (1944)
- Orwell and the Whirlpool (1947)
- Simon the Cat and the 'Yangtze Incident' (1949)
- Adrian Hayter's Mysterious Light (1950S)
- Caught in the Nets (1954)
- Riding Along on the Crest of a Wave (1954)
- Hammond Innes's Inspiration (1956)
- A Ghost of Diminishing Returns (1957)
- More Dead Than Alive (1957)
- The Ghosts of a Queen (1966)
- Donald Crowhurst and the Golden Globe (1969)
- Follow that Girl! (1971)
- The Prime Minister's not for Turning (1971)
- Lucette and the Turtle (1972)
- Adrift in a Dinghy for 117 Days (1973)
- The Bigger they Come (1975)
- The Triple Clanger (1978)
- Fastnet Disaster (1979)
- Natalie Wood's (not so) Splendid Death (1981)
- Ordeal By Raft (1982)
- Dennis Wilson's Bad Vibrations (1983)
- Saved By Dolphins (1985)
- Simon Le Bon - Just a Water Baby (1985)
- Hitler's Yacht (1989)
- Back from the Dead (1989)
- Maxwell: the Mossad Connection (1991)
- Ant on Deck (1992)
- The Tragic Louise Longo (1994)
- Help us or We'll Die! (1998)
- 'Captain Calamity' Strikes (Yet) Again (2000)
- Scrapcraft (2000)
- Overboard at the Horn! (2003)
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat! (2003)
- The Ecological Mermaid (2004)
- 'Miracle Man of the Pacific' (2014)
- Copyright
