Sailor's Hope
Sailor's Hope

Author: Rusty Bittermann

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2010-11-19

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0773581170

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Sailor's Hope provides a moving account of a multi-faceted man, tracking his engagement with the extraordinary changes occurring in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds in the decades after the American and French Revolutions. William Cooper was born in poverty in industrializing Scotland. Without any formal education, he worked his way up through the British merchant marine to the position of captain on voyages linking Britain with Iberia and North America.

Sailors and Sailing Adventures
Sailors and Sailing Adventures

Author: Cleon McClain

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-06-07

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1475991428

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Sailors and Sailing Adventures is not just a collection of poetry about sailing. Each of the delightfully written and often thought provoking poems that the author Cleon McClain has written is accompanied by his own personal commentary. The commentaries contain the stories as to how each poem came to be written. Cleon McClain also shares with the readers much of his personal life and thoughts, as well as giving his poetic insight concerning each poem. As a bonus, the appendices contains some short stories of how the author came to acquire his current sailboat the Glenda Kay, and some sailing adventures he and the Glenda Kay has shared. Sailors and Sailing Adventures will capture the readers imagination, make you think, and on occasions tug at your heart strings. You will be drawn to read it again and again.