To Live is a great movie about the Chinese revolution, and the Cultural Revolution that followed. A truly amazing movie, from Hong Kong or Taiwan I am sure. Watch it, you will learn much about China's modern history. It's also a very entertaining story.
Thanks for the recommendation for Two Years Before The Mast. I have downloaded the PDF and will read it one day.
Speaking of sailing books, I wanted to recommend a couple of solid ones I've read recently.
New-ish book (relatively speaking) - Lee Shore Blues by Peter Heiberg. It's about him, his original Bristol Channel pilot cutter Carlotta, and his days/life working on the seas (not all in Carlotta). VERY entertaining, perhaps a bit salty for some (the subtitle is Sex, Drugs and Bluewater Sailing). It is not obsessive about the topics in the subtitle except the bluewater sailing part. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, it was a fantastic read. Probably my favorite book that I've read in a while, fiction included.
One thing I enjoyed about the book was its bibliography. He had some great books in there, several of which I subsequently purchased. Things like the Slocum book (have it on the shelf now), the Hiscock book(s), Sail and Rig tuning (an illustrated no-B.S. handy little book), and another one I'd like to recommend:
Ocean Voyaging by David Parker. What a great read this turned out to be! It was published just before my birth, in the early 1970s, and I was truly astounded to realize that he sailed out of Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles, CA) when he wrote the book. Many references to Southern California sailing - fairly rare in sailing books in my very limited experience. Good stuff!
Finally I read a great book called Voyaging on a Small Income by Annie Hill.
Each of these books taught me something - many things - about sailing, sailboats, boats, weather, provisioning, hardware, attitude and mental resolve, and just minutia of sailing and boat handling.
Many of these books were purchased secondhand either through Amazon or at places (for the SoCal folks) like Kelly Marine in San Pedro or Minnie's Yacht Surplus in Costa Mesa. Both Kelly Marine and Minney's have a great stock of used books, but Minnie's takes the cake with a library-esque collection. I found a great reference there, published by the North Sails folks, called Weather for Sailors. Now that is a deep dive on weather patterns and phenomena, and it is a modern book.
As you were ...
Thanks for the recommendation for Two Years Before The Mast. I have downloaded the PDF and will read it one day.
Speaking of sailing books, I wanted to recommend a couple of solid ones I've read recently.
New-ish book (relatively speaking) - Lee Shore Blues by Peter Heiberg. It's about him, his original Bristol Channel pilot cutter Carlotta, and his days/life working on the seas (not all in Carlotta). VERY entertaining, perhaps a bit salty for some (the subtitle is Sex, Drugs and Bluewater Sailing). It is not obsessive about the topics in the subtitle except the bluewater sailing part. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, it was a fantastic read. Probably my favorite book that I've read in a while, fiction included.
One thing I enjoyed about the book was its bibliography. He had some great books in there, several of which I subsequently purchased. Things like the Slocum book (have it on the shelf now), the Hiscock book(s), Sail and Rig tuning (an illustrated no-B.S. handy little book), and another one I'd like to recommend:
Ocean Voyaging by David Parker. What a great read this turned out to be! It was published just before my birth, in the early 1970s, and I was truly astounded to realize that he sailed out of Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles, CA) when he wrote the book. Many references to Southern California sailing - fairly rare in sailing books in my very limited experience. Good stuff!
Finally I read a great book called Voyaging on a Small Income by Annie Hill.
Each of these books taught me something - many things - about sailing, sailboats, boats, weather, provisioning, hardware, attitude and mental resolve, and just minutia of sailing and boat handling.
Many of these books were purchased secondhand either through Amazon or at places (for the SoCal folks) like Kelly Marine in San Pedro or Minnie's Yacht Surplus in Costa Mesa. Both Kelly Marine and Minney's have a great stock of used books, but Minnie's takes the cake with a library-esque collection. I found a great reference there, published by the North Sails folks, called Weather for Sailors. Now that is a deep dive on weather patterns and phenomena, and it is a modern book.
As you were ...
