OffCenterHarbor.com asked our guides to share their favorite books that should be in every boater’s library…
LORD JIM, by Joseph Conrad
Conrad’s masterpiece, to me, is one of the great manuals of seamanship and of classic trials of one’s self. It’s the foremost yarn of a tragic encounter (with the flaws of but one of us) before the indifference of the sea as well as the iniquity of a handful of its people. Jim pouring out his torrent of pain to Marlow on the Aden verandah s on a plane by itself as one of the finest passages in all of Conrad.
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Mark Pearse says:
Thanks, I second “Lord Jim” & “The Cruise of the Nona”. They are deep, & penned by two of the greatest writers of the day. There’s also a nice book on Belloc – “Sailing with Mr Belloc”, who owned & sailed an elderly Bristol Pilot Cutter when it would have been an oddity to do so.
Andy Reynolds says:
The “Good Reads” are a gold mine. Thanks to all the Guides, and OCH, for several winters (long Alaskan winters) worth of great reading.
David Tew says:
Today is the start of the annual Moby Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. I think there will be an updated livestream at their website after it’s over: http://www.whalingmuseum.org/programs/moby-dick-marathon-2013#Livestream