Re: [Paddlewise] A wintertime reading recommendation

From: <FoldingBoats_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:15:04 EST
In a message dated Mon, 4 Dec 2000  1:03:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Paul 
Hollerbach" <paulhollerbach_at_netzero.net> writes:

<< For your wintertime reading list:

I just finished "Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea" 

[snip: in my opinion deservedly positive review]

Published by Ballantine in 1986, ISBN # 0-345-41015-7 >>

In that vein you might also be interested in "Alone at Sea", the story by and 
about the German physician Hannes Lindemann who crossed from the Azores to 
the Caribbean twice in the mid-fifties (once in a dug out canoe and the 
second time in a stock folding boat). Lindemann's purpose, deeply impressed 
by the fate of many airmen, who ditched in the ocean during the second world 
war (as well as ship crews from torpedoed vessels, of course), was to 
investigate how a person might go about surviving that kind of ordeal.

Peter Schwierzke (KlepperWest) sells copies. Peter is the man responsible for 
the production of the most recent translated English edition, by the way.

Ralph Hoehn
Ralph_at_PouchBoats.com

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