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02664aam a22003618i 4500 001 502C566E11B711EF80E88C4F22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240514010042 008 240404s2024 nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2024011413 020 $a 0593656040 020 $a 9780593656044 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a GV811 $b .K56 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20240415 100 1 $a King, Richard J., $e author. 245 10 $a SAILING ALONE : $b A SURPRISING HISTORY OF ISOLATION AND SURVIVAL AT SEA / $c Richard J. King. 250 $a First United States edition. 263 $a 2406 264 1 $a New York : $b Viking, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/05/21 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history of those who chose to sail across the ocean, in very small boats, alone. Sailing by yourself, out of sight of land, can be invigorating and terrifying, compelling and tedious - and sometimes all of the above in one morning. But it is also a wide expanse of time in which to think. Sailing Alone tells the story of some of the remarkable people who, over the last four centuries, have spent weeks and months, moving slowly over the world's largest laboratory: a capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars, and countless sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening. Richard J. King profiles characters famous, diverse, international, and obscure, from Joshua Slocum of 1898 to modern teenagers daring to take the challenge. They see strange hallucinations, lie to us (and themselves) on their travel logs, encounter sharks,befriend birds, and experience ESP, all part of the unnerving reality of extended isolation. And some disappear altogether. Sailing Alone also recounts the author's own nearly catastrophic solo crossing of the Atlantic, and the mystery of his inexplicablesurvival one sunny afternoon. An enormously engaging new book for skippers and armchair voyagers alike"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Single-handed sailing. $9 74952 650 0 $a Sailing $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Survival at sea. $9 155639 650 0 $a Sailors $v Biography. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a King, Richard J. $t Sailing alone $b First United States edition. $d New York : Viking, 2024 $z 9780593656068 $w (DLC) 2024011414 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240514010649.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=502C566E11B711EF80E88C4F22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search