The Saga of "Cimba" by Richard Maury

The Saga of "Cimba" by Richard Maury

The tale of an epic 1930s' journey from Nova Scotia to Fiji in a 35-foot schooner.

Richard Maury was born on St. David's Island, Bermuda, in 1910, a descendant of famed pioncering oceanographer and hydrographer Matthew Fontaine Maury. At the age of 8 he owned and sailed his first boat, but soon thereafter a childhood illness that was long to plague him ended for good his formal education. Even so, just as he taught himself to illustrate his own literary efforts, so too did he train himself as a lucid, memorable writer of the sea. When, at 23, Maury sailed off in the Cimba, he was already something of a sea veteran, having served before the mast in the old full-rigged ship Tusitala as well as several tramp freighters of that period. Nor was the sea ever to disenchant him: he stayed a master mariner on deepwater vessels throughout his working life. Maury died in Santa Barbara in 1998. After The Saga of Cimba, he never wrote another book. Born in England in 1942, Jonathan Raban taught English literature before becoming a full-time writer in 1969. He first lived in America as a visiting professor at Smith College in 1972. A full-time writer since 1969, his books include Soft City (1973), Arabia Through the Looking Glass (1979), Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi (1981 - winner of the W.H. Heinemann Award for Literature and the Thomas Cook Award), Foreign Land (1985), Coasting: A Private Voyage (1986), For Love and Money (1987), Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America (1990 - winner of the Thomas Cook Award), and Bad Land: An American Romance (1996 - a New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year; winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award; winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award). Paul Theroux called Bad Land "a masterpiece," and a recent Kirkus review of Raban's newest book, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (November 1999), calls him "one of the English-speaking world's great travelers and travel writers." Raban began sailing in the early 1980s. He has sailed alone around Britain and has spent much time afloat on the coastal seas of Europe. Since moving to Seattle in 1990, he sails a twenty-year-old Swedish ketch on the rim of the North Pacific. He edited The Oxford Book of the Sea in 1992. The Guardian has called him "the finest writer afloat since Conrad."

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780071372251
ISBN 10	0071372253
Titel	The Saga of "Cimba"
Autor	Richard Maury
Serie	Sailor's Classics S
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-12-31
Seitenanzahl	256
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.