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Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach : A Philosophic and Practical Approach to Cruising

If wisdom can be defined as common sense that has withstood the test of time, then Sensible Cruising is a wise book.

It explains:

Why a sensible cruise is affordable to almost anyone. Why the boat of choice for most cruisers is under 35 feet. Why lowering the cost doesn't devalue the cruise. How simplicity minimizes insulation from the experience. How to think in terms of how little, not how much, is really required.

Drawing heavily on the philosophy of the sage of Walden Pond, this book is a gentle guide to the art of commonsense cruising which, in hardcover, was one of the 10 best-selling sailing books of all time. Now available for the first time in paperback, Sensible Cruising, a former main selection of the Dolphin Book Club, is more pertinent than ever during this time of economic retrenchment.

It does look sometimes as if the world were on its last legs. How many there are whose principal employment is is nowadays to eat their meals and go to the post-office."—Henry David Thoreau

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 356
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780877422884
  • Release date
  • 1990