Before the Wind: True Stories About Sailing

DAVID GOWDEY: Introduction

1. CASTING OFF

ANN DAVISON: Working on a Dream

BUCKMINSTER FULLER: Naming a Sloop

JOSHUA SLOCUM: Slocum Sets Sail for the Azores

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Steerage Scenes

MICHAEL STADLER: The Psychological Situation at Sea

RICHARD HENRY DANA: Rounding the Cape

ERNEST K. GANN: Song of the Sirens

RAYMOND CARVER: My Boat

ARTHUR HOPPE: Mutiny on La Boat

FRANK MULVILLE: Girl Stella's Going

2. CATCHING THE WIND

PHILIP & BRIAN BACKMAN: Bluenose

ALEC WAUGH: Lipton's Last Challenge

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: The Yachts

TED TURNER & GARY JOBSON: The Racing Edge

DENNIS CONNER & PETER ISLER: Preparing to Win

CRAIG NEFF: A Sea Dog Primes His Guns

DUNCAN BRANTLEY: A Beauty's Second Launching

3. COMING ABOUT

RICHARD MUNSON: Cousteau, the Poet

ROBERT GOULD: How to Prepare for an Ocean Voyage

CLARE FRANCIS: Woman Alone

ALFRED LANSING: Endurance

JACK LONDON: The High Seat of Abundance

STEPHEN THOMAS: Ancient Navigators of the South Seas

BERNARD MOITESSIER: Suicide Tack

Words of wisdom, humor, practical advice, and ripping yarns.

Twenty-five selections from some of the world's most famous authors and sailors.

Read about:

• Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail around the world alone
• Richard Henry Dana's extraordinary account of beginning a sailor's life
• Ted Turner's racing strategy
• Clare Francis on her transatlantic solo race
• Robert Louis Stevenson's emigrant passage of North America
• Jack London sailing in Polynesia

Plus portraits of:

• Dennis Conner
• Thomas Lipton
• Jacques Cousteau
• Ernest Shackleton
• The great schooner Bluenose
• and more