Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum
His account is a great adventure story and also a deep meditation on zen philosophy. He sails from England alone for several months and when it seems he is just about to win…(well, I won’t spoil it for you!). This is the book that inspired us to buy a boat and go sailing! Bernard Moitessier was a French sailor who raced in the 1968 Golden Globe, the first single-handed around the world race. Best books about sailing around the world 1. If you’re looking for reference books on boat maintenance and how to sail, check out our post on the nautical books we’ll never go to sea without.Ī quick note that this post contains affiliate links (so if you purchase through a link we’ll earn a small commission). Be sure to let us know your favorite sailing books in the comments below. In this list, you’ll find books about sailing around the world, first-hand accounts of daring Antarctic adventures, true crime nautical thrillers, and meditative musings about life at sea. Whether you’re looking to do some armchair sailing during the off-season or stock up your floating library with sailing stories for summer cruising, these are the best sailing books for adventure and inspiration. Soon, their Swiss Family Robinson existence becomes a vision only Daniel can see.įunny, tender, and fascinating, filled with the details of an unconventional life, this is the story of how the Hays family lived on Whale Island, and how, finally, they had to leave.THE BEST SAILING BOOKS INSPIRE YOU TO GET OUT THERE
For him, every morning is a wonder and every storm a blood-coursing thrill.īut while Daniel loves this simple life in the wilderness, his wife longs for the world they left behind, and his spirited stepson is feeling isolated. Taking Thoreau's ideal of self-sufficiency to heart, Daniel generates electricity from solar power and a terrifying windmill, funnels rainwater for their showers, creates a toilet seat out of a whale vertebra, and strings their bed up on pulleys so that by day it can be lifted out of the way. This is the true story of fulfilling a fantasy: to live by your own rules and your own wits. Yearning to escape civilization and find a new adventure, he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia built a tiny house packed up his wife and stepson, two dogs, and three boatloads of supplies and moved there. But as it turned out, in the "real world," he just felt lost. He bought a house, took a job, and got married.
A memoir of a year spent on a deserted island off Nova Scotia, from the New York Times–bestselling author of My Old Man and the Sea.Īfter Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest.
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