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INTRODUCTION: WHY WOULD ANYONE CROSS AN OCEAN IN A SMALL BOAT? 1. THE FOGBOUND PAST: 63 AD –16 TH CENTURY Inuit Kayakers Get Lost Saint Brendan the Non-Navigator Diego Méndez Saves Columbus 2. TWO DESPERATE ESCAPES: THE 17 TH AND 18 TH CENTURIES William Okeley Rows for His Soul Captain Bligh Saves Souls 3. VICTORIAN VENTURERS: 1865–1876 God’s Paddler, John MacGregor Three Jeers for the Red, White & Blue Inflated Dreams: The Nonpareil Vanishing Beauty: The Vision The John T. Ford: A Tragedy in One Act The City of Ragusa Saga Paul Boyton Floats to Glory and Coney Island 4. THE PATHS OF GLORY: 1876–1900 Alfred Johnson’s Centennial Take Your Wife, Please: The Crapos Nathaniel Bishop Leaves His Cranberry Bog Tanneguy de Wogan: The Paper Paddler The Andrews Brothers Norman and Thomas’s Little Western The Little Tub That Could: The City of Bath Bernard Gilboy Leaves Home Andrews Solo The Mermaid vs. the Sea Serpent The Christopher Columbus Gets Soaped Norwegian Clammers Row for the American Dream Fingerless Blackburn Till Death Do Them Part 5. A WORLD TO CONQUER: 1900–1920 The Man Who Didn’t Circumnavigate The Egg That Didn’t Go Over Easy Yakaboo and a Poet, Too Stiff and Frozen Upper Lips: Shackleton and Worsley The Mystery of Hope Cove 6. LOVERS AND OTHER LOSERS: 1920–1930s Franz Romer: Canoeist or Kayaker? Liebe Story: Paul and Aga Müller Leaving Latvia: The Rebell Yell Ivy League Vagabonds 7. BIG FEAT, LITTLE NOTICE: THE 1940s Three Men in a Rubber Raft Navy Hero Poon Lim: Thanks, Now Leave Jack Schultz: Like Father, Like Son Like Father, Like Daughter Postwar Hopes: The Nova Espero 8. GOOFY AND GALLANT: THE 1950s Jeeps Can Cross Anything, Including Oceans Once More for Nova Espero Sweet Sopranino Dr. Bombard’s Bombast? Escape from the Foreign Legion but Not the Sharks Trekka: Boy Makes Good By Log Across the Atlantic L’Égaré Earns Its Merit Badge, Sorta Dr. Lindemann Crosses in a Real Kayak What’s a Nice Balloon Like You Doing on an Ocean Like This? 9. DOING YOUR OWN THING: THE 1960s The Craig and the River Goddess Kenichi Horie Brings Shame and Glory to His Family Young John Riding vs. the OSTAR Geezers Robert Manry Fights Suburbia on the Atlantic The West Wight Potter Story The Birth of the “Capsule” Boat The First Great Rowing Race Francis Brenton: Transoceanic on the Cheap William Willis: Have Hernia, Will Travel Jet Jockey Makes an April Fool of Himself The Shagadelic Rower 10. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: THE 1970s By Lugger to Australia Aoki and Van Ruth David Blagden Tames a Willing Griffin There’s No Place Like Home, Thankfully: Shane’s Shrimpy Bas’s Boat Webb Chiles in an Open Boat Mexican Minimalist Mariner Carlos Aragón Spiess Girl 11. THE GOLDEN DECADE: THE 1980s New Technology Don’t Forget the Catamarans: The Rag Tag Fleet Starkell and Sons: Epic Canoeists Sven the Swede: The Edison of Small-Boat Builders Three Men Duke It Out for Who’s Smallest The 500 Days of Serge Testa Ed Gillet Kayaks and Kites to Hawaii French Impressions 12. RECORDS AND REDUX: THE 1990s Stephen Ladd Squeaks through a War Zone “Ant” Steward Does It in the Open We’re Great, But Don’t Tell Anyone Friends and Foes: Vihlen vs. McNally Delaging the Question Gvodev and Glasnost Lecomte Swims for Love 13. NEW FACES AND OLD: THE NEW MILLENNIUM It’s a Girl! Elvis Has Left the Marina The Humpback Kayak The Glory of Spain on a Sea-Doo CONCLUSION: TO SEA, OR NOT TO SEA: THAT IS THE QUESTION A Final Warning Before You Go APPENDIX Rowers and Other Strangers Other Notable Voyages NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ART SOURCES INDEX
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