Cape Horn: One Man's Dream : One Woman's Nightmare [Paperback]

Reanne Hemingway-Douglass (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1994

Cape Horn is a griping account of one woman's courage and endurance in the seas off Patagonia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 295 pages
• Publisher: Fineedge.Com Llc; 1st edition (July 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938665294
• ISBN-13: 978-0938665298
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #474,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very personal and emotionally-honest book of survival!, September 1, 1999

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D. A. Keary "Rivendell" (Benicia, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cape Horn: One Man's Dream : One Woman's Nightmare (Paperback)

I recently had the privilege of meeting Reanne and her husband, Don (and knowing absolutely nothing about her book beforehand). This book was written in such a way that you almost feel as if YOU'RE experiencing everything - you feel like you're in Reanne's mind during the whole adventure. I couldn't put the book down. This book gets into the brutally honest nitty-gritty psychology of how people react to each other during normal times as well as life-and-death crises. Reanne tapped into and shared her most intimate thoughts during the most critical time of her life. Reanne told me that when she tried to get this book published years ago, the publishers wanted to her fictionalize the story and that it was too emotional and too psychological. Wake up publishers! Survival IS a psychological situation! As a sailboater, I totally admire and respect Reanne for what she went through and for "not selling out to the publishers" and sticking to the truth of their adventure, through her eyes. Reanne, you're so awesome!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Whine Around the Cape, December 26, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Cape Horn: One Man's Dream : One Woman's Nightmare (Paperback)

This book is a great example of how NOT to cruise. The challenges experienced by this couple were largely of their own making - somewhat a cruiser's "No Exit".

All in all the book is about a battle of egos and self-fulfilling prophecies. The storm scenes are certainly page-turners and the book reasonably well written, but the people become boring with their self preoccupation.

For a far better example of circumnavigating the Cape, I would suggest Hal Roth's book - "Two against the Cape". The Roth's enjoy and have respect for the region.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A passionate survival story., January 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Cape Horn: One Man's Dream : One Woman's Nightmare (Paperback)

hshlasky obviously missed the intent of this book. Ms. Hemmingway-Douglass gives us a breathless account not of a rugged "Endurance" type survival story, but of the emotional relationships that develop when balanced on the knife edge of survival. Hats off to Ms Hemmingway-Douglass for letting us into her soul during such a critical time. I found this book to be the equal of any of the great stories of survival at sea.