Rounding the Horn : being the story of williwaws and windjammers, Drake, Darwin, murdered missionaries and naked natives--a deck's-eye view of Cape Horn
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xv, 358 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index.
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Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West: Cape Horn--a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America--is a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to Joseph Conrad. For centuries, the small stretch of water between Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula was the only gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It's a place where the storms are bigger, the winds stronger, and the seas rougher than anywhere else on earth. In Rounding the Horn, Dallas Murphy weaves together stories of his own nautical adventures with long-lost tales of those who braved the Cape before him--from Spanish missionaries to Captain Cook--and interspersing them with descriptions of the surrounding wilderness. --,From publisher's description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Murphy, D. (2004). Rounding the Horn: being the story of williwaws and windjammers, Drake, Darwin, murdered missionaries and naked natives--a deck's-eye view of Cape Horn . Basic Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Murphy, Dallas. 2004. Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View of Cape Horn. New York: Basic Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Murphy, Dallas. Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View of Cape Horn New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Murphy, D. (2004). Rounding the horn: being the story of williwaws and windjammers, drake, darwin, murdered missionaries and naked natives--a deck's-eye view of cape horn. New York: Basic Books.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Murphy, Dallas. Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View of Cape Horn Basic Books, 2004.

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