by Robin KnoxJohnston
Recommended by Stewart Brand
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sailing, Action & Adventure, and Hobbies.
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almostunnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at herhelm, Robin KnoxJohnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili,paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered andbrown, her selfsteering gone, her tiller arm jury rigged to the rudderhead, came rom...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sailing, Action & Adventure, and Hobbies.
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Stewart Brand
Writer; founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
“The other two books are worth your time tooKnoxJohnston's A WORLD OF MY OWN and THE STRANGE LAST VOYAGE OF DONALD CROWHURST.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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