Sadly, No Six Months In A Leaky Boat, Either

I just finished reading an advance copy of Rounding the Horn, in which Dallas Murphy recounts his sailing trip to (but not around) Cape Horn, that small patch of rock off the bottommost tip of South America, home to the stormiest seas on the planet. As involving as his voyage was, Murphy seems at times even more passionate about the stories of those who sailed there before him, and much of the book is devoted to yarns gathered from great sailing tomes of the past. I thought, given their age and in many cases public domain status, many of them might have made it online by now, but for now all I could find was Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World. (Well, that's not strictly true; there was also Voyage of the Beagle.) It's a shame; just hearing titles like A Two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego gets the more avaricious aspects of my readerly drives into high gear... At any rate, look for the Murphy in May.