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Sailing the Dream : The Amazing True Story of the Teen Who Sailed Solo Around the World /
Three thousand people have climbed Everest; four hundred and fifty have traveled into space. Only two hundred fifty have sailed round the world alone. The youngest of these was a teenager. When he set out on his attempt, Mike Perham was just sixteen years old. At first, his mother was against the wh...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hanover :
University Press of New England,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prelims; Half title; Web address; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; Map; Prologue; Part 1 MAKING WAVES; 1 Meet the Perhams; 2 The Idea; 3 Ocean's 14; 4 Money Troubles; 5 The Race to the Start Line; 6 Dry Land Disaster; 7 An Emotional Departure; 8 Storm Horizons; 9 Survival; 10 Cheeky Monkey Vanishes; 11 A Flying Visit; 12 Endurance Test; 13 Swimming with Sharks; 14 Jack-of-All-Trades; 15 Record Breaker; 16 Fame!; 17 The Dream Becomes Reality; 18 Doubt; 19 Full Steam Ahead; 20 Leaving; Part 2 THE ATLANTIC; 21 Sailing the Dream; 22 Mikeworld; 23 Bad with the Good
- 24 Las Palmas
- Coming and Going25 Happy New Year
- Not; 26 The Doldrums; 27 The Equator; 28 The Autopilot Strikes Back; 29 Life, the Universe and Chocolate; 30 The Need for Speed; 31 What Were the Odds?; Part 3 THE SOUTHERN OCEAN; 32 Into the South; 33 Ding-Dong Time!; 34 Knockdown!; 35 The Tough Get Going; 36 There and Back Again; 37 Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!; Part 4 THE PACIFIC; 38 Pacific Storm; 39 An Unexpected Swim; 40 That's Torn It; 41 The Panamanian Way; 42 Going Yo-Yo; 43 A Dream Surf; Part 5 THE ATLANTIC; 44 Collision Course; 45 Mercury Rising; 46 Homeward Bound; 47 Trouble at the Top
- 48 One Last Ding-Dong49 The Finish Line; Epilogue; Endmatter; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index