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Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives - A Deck's Eye View of Cape Horn
Basic Books
June 2005
On Sale: May 25, 2005
358 pages
ISBN: 0465047602
EAN: 9780465047604
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Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes
West: Cape Horn-a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock
situated at the very bottom of South America-is a place of
forlorn and foreboding beauty that has captured the dark
imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to
Joseph Conrad. For centuries, the small stretch of water
between Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula was the only
gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It's a
place where the storms are bigger, the winds stronger, and
the seas rougher than anywhere else on earth. Dallas Murphy has always been sea-struck. In Rounding the
Horn he undertakes the ultimate maritime rite of passage,
and brings the reader along for a thrilling, exuberant tour.
Weaving together stories of his own nautical adventures with
long-lost tales of those who braved the Cape before him-from
Spanish missionaries to Captain Cook-and interspersing them
with breathtaking descriptions of the surrounding
wilderness, Murphy has crafted an immensely enjoyable read.
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