Sailing the Pacific Book

In 1997, Miles Hordern set sail by himself on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, a region of icebergs, cyclones, and treacherous seas. It was the be-gin-ning of an eighteen-month journey that would take him through the fjords of Patagonia, one of the last uncharted areas in the world, and then north on the Peru current before he began his homeward passage. In prose so vivid readers can almost feel the spray sting their face and the giant swells roll beneath their feet, Hordern describes what he saw, felt, and did, giving a heart-clutching account of discovery and survival. Others have attempted similarly dramatic solo journeys; none have written about them so unforgettably. In addition to a first-class sailing yarn, Sailing the Pacific also charts a course through other South Pacific voyages-such as those by the doomed S.S. Essex and H.M.S Bounty-to show why this part of the world haunts the imagination like none other. Here is hawser-taut adventure and history.Read More