The Circumnavigators:
Small Boat Voyagers of Modern Times
by Donald Holm
(c) 1974 by Donald R. Holm
originally published by Prentice-Hall, NY

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It is some 489 pages


" CONTENTS (abreviated index posted only)

Chapter page

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- I - THE PATHFINDERS

1 The Pilot of the PINTA 3

2 The Venturesome Viking 15

- II - BETWEEN TWO WARS


- III - AROUND THE BEAUTIFUL NEW WORLD


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- V - THE GOLDEN GLOBES


26 Only Super Heroes Need Apply 245

- VI - THE MULTI-HULLS


- VII - THE PERMANENT ITCH


Author's Notes 432
(Note: the Author's Notes have been appended to each chapter at

the end of the chapter. They are presented here as they were
in the original book to preserve pagination, and reference to
them in the index reproduced below.)

Bibliography 466


- INDEX - 489


- xiv -
- ILLUSTRATIONS -


- xv -

In an age when mass society has rendered obsolete the
qualities of individual courage and independent thought,
the oceans of the world still remain,
vast and uncluttered, beautiful but unforgiving,
awaiting those who will not submit.
Their voyages are not an escape,
but a fulfillment.

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