Peter Nichols
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The Rocks
18 editions
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2015
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A Voyage for Madmen
36 editions
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1997
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Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
15 editions
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2003
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Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat
15 editions
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1998
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
9 editions
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1967
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Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season
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15 editions
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2009
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Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty
3 editions
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2010
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Voyage to the North Star
3 editions
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1999
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Joe Egg
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Passion Play
9 editions
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1981
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“In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their crews for their desperate Antarctic voyages. In 1959 ... sailor H.W. Tilman, looking for a crew for a voyage in an old wooden yacht to the Southern Ocean, ran this ad in the London Times: "Hand [man] wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure." Tilman received more replies than he could investigate, one from as far away as Saigon.”
― Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
― Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
“The likelihood of meeting anyone who wouldn't make him feel even lonelier seemed increasingly remote. Life was a dwindling process now, not a building proposition. He couldn't imagine being with someone new, opening up, feeling appreciated and understood, without having to explain his dubious non sequiturs and increasingly arcane or redundant frame of reference.”
― The Rocks
― The Rocks
“Donald Crowhurst had an extraordinary talent for making people believe him. His power lay in the fact that he had completely convinced himself.”
― A Voyage for Madmen
― A Voyage for Madmen
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