Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages

by Robyn Mundy, Nigel Rigby

It takes a certain kind of adventurer to sail off into the unknown of the world's oceans, sailing by the stars, alone in the vastness of a life at sea. Join an accomplished sailor for the stories of five epic mariners who set off on some of the great ocean journeys ever undertaken. Learn the art and skill of sailing from great square-riggers to the smallest craft. Learn what it takes to survive at sea, and how great sailors must adapt to challenging conditions like unpredictable weather, physical hardship, sleep deprivation, and unforeseen perils. Find out what survival strategies succeeded, and which failed-with tragic results. Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, posters and eye-popping gatefolds, this book is the perfect introduction to the incredible distances and epic challenges of a life at sea.

Genres: History

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Wild places form a big part of my life, and my writing. My novel Cold Coast is set in the high Arctic and tells the story of Svalbard's remarkable first female trapper Wanny Woldstad. Wildlight is set on Tasmania's remote Maatsuyker Island, home to Australia's loneliest lighthouse where my partner Gary and I spent ten months in isolation as caretakers and weather observers. I have wintered and summered in Antarctica, the setting for my first novel The Nature of Ice. Each year I work aboard ice-strengthened ships that head off to polar regions on adventure tourist voyages. My guiding role helped me co-author a young readers' illustrated book Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages. I am currently working on a new historical novel…you guessed it, set in a rather chilly place.

Reviews

[Christine Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

It takes a certain kind of adventurer to sail off into the unknown of the world's oceans, sailing by the stars, alone in the vastness of a life at sea. Join an accomplished sailor for the stories of five epic mariners who set off on some of the great ocean journeys ever undertaken. Learn the art and skill of sailing from great square-riggers to the smallest craft. Learn what it takes to survive at sea, and how great sailors must adapt to challenging conditions like unpredictable weather, physical hardship, sleep deprivation, and unforeseen perils. Find out what survival strategies succeeded, and which failed-with tragic results.


Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, posters and eye-popping gatefolds, this book is the perfect introduction to the incredible distances and epic challenges of a life at sea.




Subjects

Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature

Seafaring life -- Juvenile literature

[Ratforcekids]

For biographies packed with adventure, check out Epic Voyages. Join the explorers who travelled into uncharted territory, sometimes with disastrous results.