-
Seasonal Offer:
This title is part of our Seasonal Offers promotion.
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Review
"'A charming and lyrical read, awash with the joy of discovery...' Rory Maclean, Guardian 'It is easy to enthuse about the simple pleasures of life, but hard to write about them well. Stewart's gift is to do so with the carefree manner of someone you've just met in a bar, and who is buying the drinks' Hugh Thomson, Independent 'Witty, self-deprecating and charming, Stewart makes wonderful company even if you do get soaked in the process.' Kathleen Wyatt, The Times 'His enthusiasm and sheer good nature are infectious. Like Bill Bryson, he's a hard man to dislike.' Mail on Sunday 'Laugh yourself silly! Wonderful!' Books Quarterly It's a book with a big heart and a great belly laugh' The Times"
Book Description
A top ten bestseller
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The book is very small, more like a readers digest story than something you would expect from Chris Stewart. If you are expecting (as I was) a book that tells you about life in Spain and the trails and tribulations that are meet along the way, then this is not one of them. I throughly enjoyed the Lemons trilogy but this comes no where near the quality or quantity of those three books. Yes there are some humourous parts in there, but in the main I got the feeling that the author wrote the book in haste and it seems it was just about financial gain for him which he does elude to in the book. All in all had I read reviews like this before I purchased the book, I would not have bought it. Disappointing
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A very well written book, in which the author at no time tries to impress us as to his own qualities, never hiding his potential inadequacies. He gives a graphic, gripping account of the hardships and dangers involved in sailing a small boat on a wild ocean.
An excellent read.
(Review by Steve Foley, South Wales)
An excellent read.
(Review by Steve Foley, South Wales)
50 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've just read this book and have to say I think it's Chris Stewart's funniest yet. It is a bit of a departure, as he heads out to sea, instead of describing life at home on his farm in Andalucia. But it has all the laugh-out-loud description and self-deprecating charm of "Driving Over Lemons" and his earlier books. And you don't need to be remotely interested in sailing to enjoy it. After all, the book starts with Chris taking a job to skipper a yacht in Greece for the summer, having never set foot on a sailing boat. So it's not all boom-and-tiller talk. More a tale of misadventures. The chapters on how he learns to sail are hilarious: like when he is trying to make his way back up the Solent river against the current, engine full on, with the boat completely stationary while drinkers at the pub on the river bank look on. The descriptions of Greece are equally funny, as his boat catches fire in the midst of the island fiesta. And then there is a complete shift of scale as he embarks on a trip across the north Atlantic, from Brighton to Newfoundland. This gives a real sense of what an ocean journey on a small boat is like and, this being a Chris Stewart book, its absurdities - not least the perils of peeing over the side of a boat in a freezing, force ten gale. All in all, hugely recommended - fun and life-enhancing. More please!
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Chris Stewart Books
this book is well worth reading and if you like it look for his other books. On Amazon of course
Published 1 month ago by G. Malcolm
easy reading
Bought this book as a follow on from Chris's previous books. It was a good read easy to read and light on the brain at bedtime
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. H. Corrie
Stewart Strikes Again !
Marvellous book ! I knew nothing about sailing and wasn't particularly interested in it but Stewart can make ANY experience of his entertaining. I loved it from start to finish. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Annie
three ways to capsize a boat
read chris stewart's other books about life in the apuljarra's, loved the way he writes, took a gamble on this book being written in the same delightful way. Read more
Published 2 months ago by fi
My husband loved this book
My husband has been boat-mad for about three years now, so when I spotted this book in our local book shop just before Christmas, it seemed to be the perfect stocking filler. Read more
Published 3 months ago by DubaiReader
3 Ways to Capsize a Boat
A great laugh...the best of Chris' books...can't wait for the next one?!! My husband and I have read all of these and the Driving with Lemons series. Read more
Published 7 months ago by debbie valentine
Another Chris Stewart
Whilst I enjoyed this book, it was not in the same vein as his previous offerings. It was fun and interesting but I think would be better enjoyed by a boating enthusiast.
Published 7 months ago by norahb
Easygoing biographical vignette by Stewart - with sailing as the...
Chris Steward describes his brief sailing career in this book that came before his time in Spain (immortalised in his other books) and after his short career as a Genesis drummer. Read more
Published 13 months ago by AK
Laugh out loud funny
Chris Stewart's fourth travel memoir "Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat" is a fascinating read. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Niki Collins-queen, Author
This was a present
This was a present for a friend who loves sailing boats and the sea. I bought it for her but have not read it. I know she has enjoyed reading it very much.
Published 21 months ago by A. M. Fifield
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
