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Old 01-07-09, 13:08
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Got to be Joshua Slocum I think,you can't beat the way he nonchalantly sprinkled carpet tacks on the decks to ward off cannibals & there was one time he was sailing away & he made a comment that had me splitting my sides though I can't think of it for now.What a character!
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H.W. Tilman.
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I read a lot of Biographies from Pilots and figures who's accomplishments played a great role in the WWII and afterwards such as : Chuck Yeager and Bud Anderson, Gunther Rall, and the great man Sir James Martin, the ejector seat pioneer. and many more.
Some very very good reads !!!
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hi guys thanks for responding...hey tell me one thing thatwhich kind of book you would like to prefer??
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hi guys thanks for responding...hey tell me one thing thatwhich kind of book you would like to prefer??
Got to be true story's/first hand accounts.Like they say the truth is stranger than fiction.
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I read a lot of Biographies from Pilots and figures who's accomplishments played a great role in the WWII and afterwards such as : Chuck Yeager and Bud Anderson, Gunther Rall, and the great man Sir James Martin, the ejector seat pioneer. and many more.
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Have you read Guy Gibson "Enemy coast ahead"?Fantastic.
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Have you read Guy Gibson "Enemy coast ahead"?Fantastic.
Fabulous Book !!!

Best Reads ! Sir James Martin by Sarah Sharman
Yeager by General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos
To Fly and Fight , memoirs of a triple ace Bud Anderson
Eagles Wings By Hajo Hermann
Storm command by General Peter De La Billiere
Gunther Rall by Jill Amadio ( Biography)
The Right of the Line by John Terraine
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HWMBO and I both enjoy the sea thrillers by Sam Llewellyn.
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ditto: H.W Tilman, don't overlook the collection of mountain travel books too.
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hi :thanks: for your reply.i never read sea thrillers.but i would like to read it..
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Joseph Conrad.. some of its kack, but i like 'the mirror of the sea' - kind of a series of recollections and impressions about his life at sea. Its probably what got me into sailing in the first place.
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Got to agree with the others - Tilman. Learned, sharp, modest, funny and always entertaining.
George Millar is also good. Isabel and The Sea, is his best, I think.

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Lewis Caroll, for exciting My formative years
H G Wells and Charles Dickens for improving them.
Jeremy Clarkson for realising that a lot of 'modern' scribes/authors are trash/not to the standard required!
Oh and Mario Puzo.
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