Sailing to the Far Horizon : The Restless Journey and Tragic Sinking of a Tall Ship.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. Joining the Sofia for Her Second Circumnavigation: Floating in Boston -- 2. Into the Teeth of Hurricane Kendra: My Maiden Voyage -- 3. Too Much Rum, Too Many Steel Drums: Too Long a Stay in the Windward Islands -- 4. Old World, Third World, Unspoiled World: The Dutch Antilles, Venezuela, the San Blas Archipelago -- 5. Great Escapes: The Trip Overland through Mexico and Central America -- 6. "¿Dónde Está American Embassy?": What the Travel Brochures Don't Tell You: Costa Rica, Panama, and the Galapagos -- 7. The World's Longest Expanse of Uninterrupted Ocean: Crossing the South Pacific to the Marquesas -- 8. The Most Beautiful Islands in the World: The Societies -- 9. Too Many Have Come before Us: The Cook Islands, the Samoas, and the Kingdom of Tonga -- 10. Deep in the Doldrums: Crossing the Horse Latitudes to New Zealand -- 11. Roll On, Deep and Dark Blue Ocean: The Mutiny and the Sofia's Final Passage -- 12. Off the North Cape: The Storm -- 13. Sinking: The Life Rafts -- 14. Coming Home -- Epilogue.

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