Autorentext

Bernard Moitessier was one of the world's great small-baot sailors. He wrote four other books, all classics of nautical literature. Sailing to the Reefs was Moitessier's first book. The Long Way covered the famous Golden Globe race that he abandoned to "save [his] soul." A Sea Vagabond's World is a practical book and Tamata and the Alliance, finished shortly before his death in 1994, is the magnificent autobiography of this uncommon man.

Klappentext

Recounts the Moitessiers' honeymoon trip from Europe to the islands of the Pacific and back along the "logical route" via Cape Horn, a path chosen for its speed, which took them through the Roaring Forties, iceberg territory and the relentless gale-force winds of the higher latitudes.

Inhalt

Foreword
Part I. Birds of Passage

1. My Paper Boat
2. Like a Well-trained Monkey
3. Like a Lost Dog
4. The Wheel Turns
5. Afloat at Last
6. Towards the Tropics
7. In the Open Sea
8. The Fickle Trades
9. Meeting Place of Ocean Birds
10. Atlantic
11. The Great Turning Point
12. Panama--Galapagos
13. A World which Fear has Spared
14. At the Gates to Polynesia

15. A Dream at a Price

    Part II. The Logical Route

16. Preparations
17. A Start...Like any Other
18. A Whole Gales
19. In the Heavy Seas of the High Latitudes or the Game of the Little Squares
20. Cape Horn to Port
21. On the Look-out for Icebergs
22. The Horse Latitudes

23. Trade Winds...from the West!

    Part III. Appendices
    Designer's Notes
    Author's Notes