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Near Death on the High Seas

Kuhne, Cecil

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Near Death on the High Seas

Cecil Kuhne is the editor of two previous anthologies on adventure travel, On the Edge and The Armchair Paddler. A former whitewater rafting
guide, he has also written nine books about rafting, kayaking, and canoeing. He lives in Dallas.

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Title of ebook: Near Death on the High Seas
ISBN: 9780307389305
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 392 kb
Pages: 240
Released online for download: 03-11-2008
Author of eBook: Kuhne, Cecil

Near Death on the High Seas

True Stories of Disaster and Survival
Adrift

Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Steven Callahan

Log of Napoleon Solo

It is late at night. The fog has been dense for days. Napoleon Solo continues to slice purposefully through the sea toward the coast of England. We should be getting very close to the Scilly Isles. We must be very careful. The tides are large, the currents strong, and these shipping lanes heavily traveled. Both Chris and I are keeping a sharp eye out. Suddenly the lighthouse looms on the rocky isles, its beam high off the water. Immediately we see breakers. We're too close. Chris pushes the helm down and I trim the sails so that Solo sails parallel to the rocks that we can see. We time the change in bearing of the lighthouse to calculate our distance away--less than a mile. The light is charted to have a thirty-mile range. We are fortunate because the fog is not as thick as it often is back in our home waters of Maine. No wonder that in t ... read full excerpt from Near Death on the High Seas ebook