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Summary: Remarkable adventure
Review: After having read The Perfect Storm, I was interested in other stories about the fishermen of the Gloucester area. This book fit the bill perfectly--just as harrowing as The Perfect Storm, but with a happier ending.
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Summary: Remarkable adventure
Review: After having read The Perfect Storm, I was interested in other stories about the fishermen of the Gloucester area. This book fit the bill perfectly--just as harrowing as The Perfect Storm, but with a happier ending.
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Summary: Howard Blackburn has 'grande huevos'!
Review: Great story. Well written. Excellent documentation
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Summary: Wonderful book about life at the turn of the century (1900)
Review: Howard Blackburn was one cool dude! I mean the guy gets caught away from the mother ship and rows for 5 days to live but it costs him all his fingers and that's just the first two chapters! You've got him going off to the Yukon on a gold rush jaunt, a couple of single handed trips across the Atlantic. A circumnavigation of the Eastern US via the Great Lakes and the Misissippi River and around Florida. He just won't quit.Anyway I bought the book because of the stories about dories, and was hooked by all the other adventures as well. BTW there is a rowing race of 22 miles in open Atlantic called the "Blackburn Challange" The folks of Glouster loved him.
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Summary: Lone Voyager
Review: I found an old copy of this book and read it a year ago. An incredible true story. I`m glad to see that it is available in paperpback again.
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Summary: Lone Voyager
Review: I found an old copy of this book and read it a year ago. An incredible true story. I`m glad to see that it is available in paperpback again.
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Summary: A Hero You Just Might Have Missed
Review: It would be too easy to simply say that Howard Blackburn rose above his adversity. I should like to have known more about, or even known him - fisherman, retailer, sailor and philanthropist - here is a man of legend among men of iron. Howard's tale is marvelous; a testament to the pioneers and explorers who follow their restless dreams without compromise. Lone Voyager is a fascinating and enlightening look into the industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the men who fought long odds and the compelling draw of a man possessed of his visions.
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Summary: An outstanding story of an adventurer par excellence!
Review: This is without a doubt the best seafaring story I have read since reading Joshua Slocum's account of his sailing adventures. Would make a wonderful film if produced by someone careful enough to make the details realistic.
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