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FROM THE SLUMS OF CHICAGO TO HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLDDavy Jones is a courageous young black man growing up in the ghetto. His is a world of drugs, violence, and poverty. He loses his mother early in his life, and at the age of fifteen he watches helplessly as his father dies from an overdose. Throughout the years, he witnesses the devastating effect of drugs on friends and their families, and the high cost of addiction. Despite the ma...

This book-a guide to intensive preparation for taking a modern sailing vessel to sea-is the distillation of Carl Chase's famous course in nautical science given at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and aboard the schooner Westward. For those who are going to sea for the first time as well as for those who have some experience, the book offers an introduction to all the knowledge needed to become a truly qualified sea-...