Roth - The Hal Roth seafaring trilogy: three true stories of adventure under sail

Roth writes with grace, humor, and poetic insight about the vastness and beauty of the ocean.

Library Journal

Roths books about his life at sea, including Two on a Big Ocean and Two Against Cape Horn, are universally listed among the most influential sailing books ever published.SpinSheet

A valuable addition to the literature of the sea.

H. W. Tilman

By all means read all of Hal Roth you can find.

Practical Sailor

A first-class outing for the armchair adventurer.

Library Journal

A fine personal account. A unique voyage.SAIL

A first-rate account of a great adventure.Yachting

Roths Polynesian sequences are the best Pacific Island reporting in years.

William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle

A seamans yarn par excellence, and ever so much more.Don Greame Kelly, Oceans

A wonderful book.Eric Hiscock

A great story and a great accomplishment. It left me dumbfounded. [The voyage] is almost impossible for the imagination to grasp.Irving Johnson

An extraordinary book.William F. Buckley, Jr.

Absorbing reading. Roth has managed to escape the confines of a pure sea story.Ernest K. Gann

Roth can charm you out of your armchair.Kirkus

Enthralling Roth makes it clear why sailors risk the dangerous Horn passage: for the sailor it is the equivalent of Everest to the mountaineer.

John Barkham Reviews

This exciting book is a celebration of survival against all odds.Book of the Month Club

Will stir your blood.Joe Brown, San Diego Union

It becomes impossible for the reader to put the book down.Miles Smeeton

Stands out among many great tales.SAIL

The Horn. Shipwreck. Adventure at the end of the earth. Roth at his best and cruising at its limits. Read it.Cruising World

This book is a classic.Practical Sailor

A nautical saga so tense and exciting as to make the Whispers eventual rounding of the Horn almost an anticlimax.Publishers Weekly

As a tale of high adventure of a kind which rarely happens and usually few survive, Hal Roths account of the race is as good as any nautical yarn ever written.

Alan Cameron Reviews

Far beyond the other books that were rather superficial, and had not got their facts right.Robin Knox-Johnston

An epic in the annals of sailing [and] high adventure.

Herb McCormick, Cruising World

Only a superb seaman who is also a fine writer could weave a narrative as evocative and seamless.

John Rousmaniere, Dolphin Book Club

Proof indeed that truth can be strangerand more rewardingthan fiction.Noland Norgaard, Club Ties

THE HAL ROTH
SEAFARING TRILOGY
Three True Stories of Adventure Under Sail

Pathway in the Sky Two on a Big Ocean After 50,000 Miles Two Against Cape Horn The Longest Race Always a Distant Anchorage Chasing the Long Rainbow Chasing the Wind We Followed Odysseus How To Sail Around the World

TWO ON A BIG OCEAN | TWO AGAINST CAPE HORN | THE LONGEST RACE

HAL ROTH

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Two on a Big Ocean first published in 1972 by Macmillan. Maps by John Armstrong.

Two Against Cape Horn first published in 1978 by W. W. Norton. Maps by Sam F. Manning.

An earlier version of The Longest Race was published by W. W. Norton in 1983. The manuscript was revised and new material added in 2005.

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