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- catalog abstract "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. In Rounding the Horn, Dallas Murphy weaves 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 descriptions of the surrounding wilderness. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b13246871.
- catalog coverage "Horn, Cape (Chile) Description and travel.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "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. In Rounding the Horn, Dallas Murphy weaves 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 descriptions of the surrounding wilderness. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog description "From Ushuaia to Puerto Williams -- Sea-struck -- Wind -- Discovering seas -- Drake -- From Puerto Williams to Caleta Martial -- A glorious failure -- Discovering people -- FitzRoy's fuegians -- "Too much Skylark!" -- Back home again -- To Cape Horn -- From Hermite to Duck -- The death and life of the British Isles -- How to round Cape Horn -- The undiscovered land -- A fjord for the naming -- The martyrs insisted -- At Wulaia -- "The wet and cold life."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-339) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 358 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Rounding the Horn.".
- catalog identifier "0465047599 (hc)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Rounding the Horn.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog relation "Rounding the Horn.".
- catalog spatial "Horn, Cape (Chile) Description and travel.".
- catalog subject "918.3/6 22".
- catalog subject "F3186 .M87 2004".
- catalog subject "Murphy, Dallas.".
- catalog tableOfContents "From Ushuaia to Puerto Williams -- Sea-struck -- Wind -- Discovering seas -- Drake -- From Puerto Williams to Caleta Martial -- A glorious failure -- Discovering people -- FitzRoy's fuegians -- "Too much Skylark!" -- Back home again -- To Cape Horn -- From Hermite to Duck -- The death and life of the British Isles -- How to round Cape Horn -- The undiscovered land -- A fjord for the naming -- The martyrs insisted -- At Wulaia -- "The wet and cold life."".
- catalog title "Rounding the Horn : being a story of williwaws and windjammers, Drake, Darwin, murdered missionaries and naked natives--a deck's-eye view of Cape Horn / Dallas Murphy.".
- catalog type "text".