{"product_id":"sailing-by-starlight-9781493065691","title":"Sailing by Starlight","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd width=\"99%\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, a hobby sailor and retired geography professor named Marvin Creamer embarked on a very special circumnavigation: On his 36' steel ketch, Globe Star, Creamer and his crew ventured out into the Atlantic a few days before Christmas on the first leg of the voyage, bound for Africa. On board they carried absolutely no navigation instruments of any kind: no LORAN, no GPS or AIS (civilian versions of which did not, in any case, exist in 1982), no sextant or astrolabe, no radar . . . nothing. They didn't even have a clock on board. They had some rudimentary charts and maps of the trade winds and that was it. What they did carry with them was Marv's blue-water sailing experience and his knowledge of the Earth, the stars, and of the winds and waves. Eighteen months later, Creamer returned, having shown the worldor as much of it as was paying any a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885878882647,"sku":"9781493065691","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sailing-by-starlight-9781493065691","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}