From the
back cover. . .
This is a magnificent photographic account
of an extraordinary voyage on one of the most beautiful super-yachts
in the world. The book includes nearly 400 pictures of some
of the most exciting ocean enviromnents on the planet, ranging
from the islands north of Svalbard to Antarctica and from
the Galapagos to Fiji and Vanuatu. Sit back and enjoy this
amazing voyage.
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From
the inside front flap. . .
The Adèle is
one of the world's most famous super-yachts, a magnificent
beauty that plies the oceans with the grace of a thorough-bred.
The author and photographer Jan-Eric Österlund has
sailed this extraordinary yacht from the pack ice in the
Arctic Ocean in the north, to Antarctica in the south and
from the Mediterranean in the East, to New Zealand in the
west. Together with photographer Rick Tomlinson, he tells
the tale of this wonderful journey, which is illustrated
with some 400 pictures. They visit legendary places – including
Spitsbergen, the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and Fiji – they
meet people from many different cultures and they encounter
polar bears, albatrosses, penguins and whales; in short,
some of the most beautiful and exciting places and creatures
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About the author. . . Jan-Eric Österlund
is a sailor and an explorer at heart. His first adventures
at sea were made at a very tender age in small sailing
boats on the narrow inlets that break up the Swedish coastline.
He later developed a keen interest in yachting, and after
several years of sailing in Scandinavia, he built the eighty-foot
sloop "Swedish Caprice",
which he sailed for three months a year, over a period
of fifteen years. He voyaged in Alaskan and Canadian waters,
the Far East, the South Pacific and in the Indian Ocean,
but also in more familiar yachting waters such as the Mediterranean,
the Caribbean and along the New England coast.For the past
two years, Jan-Eric Österlund and his wife Jennifer
have been living on board The
Adèle, a 180-foot ketch
with a sail area of 1,5550 square meters. They spent a
considerable amount of time at sea, visiting Lofoten, Spitsbergen,
southern Europe, the Caribbean, Panama, the Galapagos Islands,
the South Pacific from French Polynesia to Vanuatu and
New Zealand. They sailed back via Cape Horn, the Antarctic,
the Falkland Islands and South Georgia before returning
to the Caribbean by way of Brazil. Their two-year voyage
covered a distance corresponding to one Atlantic crossing
each month.
Jan-Eric Österlund, born in Sweden
in 1945, is a keen photographer and author, whose accounts
of his voyages on The Adèle have
been published in a number of yachting magazines. He is
also a businessman with business interests that include
investments in a number of biotechnology and medical companies.
He and his wife Jennifer live in Devon, south-west England.
His four grown-up children are based in London, Stockholm
and Los Angeles.
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