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 Wed 2 Dec 20 13:14 
 Non Fiction Sailing books - CGNorwich
I used to read a lot of of sailing and adventure books when I was young.

A few that spring to mind

Sailing Alone Round the World by Bluenose Joshua Slocum.
Story of first solo circumnavigation of the world


Two Years before the Mast.
Richard henry Dana

Life in a sailing ship in the 1840s What it was like to go round the Horn. Pre Gold Rush California

The Last Grain Race
by Eric Newby

One of the best travel writers. Life on one of the last sailing grain ships in the 1920s




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