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Rounding The Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives - A Deck's Eye View of Cape Horn (edit title)

Dallas Murphy (Author) (edit contributors)

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Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West: Cape Horn-a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America-is a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to... read more

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ON A SPARKLING, WARM, ATYPICAL DAY IN MARCH, we shouldered up our gear and headed down the hill to the harbor at Ushuaia, Argentina.

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  1. Dallas Murphy (Author)

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  1. adventure
  2. cape horn
  3. naval history
  4. sailing 
 

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