title: Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Together
author:  Nathaniel Philbrick 
description: <b>Praise for <i>Second Wind</i><br><br></b>&ldquo;Describing his races tack-by-tack and gust-by-gust, Philbrick crosses the finish line with sure-to-be satisfied readers interested in sailing and the personal life of this highly popular author.&rdquo;--<i>Booklist</i><b><br><br>Praise for <i>Valiant Ambition</i>:</b><br><br>"May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age--a volume that turns one of America's best-known narratives on its head."--<i>Boston Globe</i><br><br>"A suspenseful, richly detailed, and deeply researched book about the revolutionary struggle that bound George Washington and Benedict Arnold together and almost disastrous dysfunction of America's revolutionary government that helped drive them apart."--<i>The New York Review of Books</i><br><br>"Clear and insightful, it consolidates his reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction."--<i>Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>"Philbrick is both a meticulous historian and a captivating storyteller. The book has unforgettable novelistic details [and] also contains much astute historical analysis and argument. Philbrick sees Arnold not as the man who almost lost the war so much as the catalyst that helped to win it."--<i>Christian Science Monitor</i><br><br><b>Praise for <i>Bunker Hill</i>:</b><br><br>"A masterpiece of narrative and perspective."--<i>Boston Globe</i><br><br>"A tour de force . . ."--<i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>"Popular history at its best--a taut narrative with a novelist's touch, grounded in careful research."--<i>Miami Herald</i><br><br>"A story that resonates with leadership lessons for all times."--Walter Isaacson, <i>The Washington Post</i>
zlib_text: Evil Under the Sun
  
  Evil Under the Sun
  Evil Under the Sun
  
  Evil Under the Sun
  
  Chapter 1
  When Captain Roger Angmering built himself a house in the year 1782 on the island off
  Leathercombe Bay, it was thought the height of eccentricity on his part. A man of good family such as
  he was should have had a decorous mansion set in wide meadows with, perhaps, a running stream
  and good pasture. But Captain Roger Angmering had only one great love, the sea. So he built his
  house a sturdy house too, as it needed to be, on the little windswept gull-haunted promontory cut off
  from land at each high tide. He did not marry, the sea was his first and last spouse, and at his death the
  house and island went to a distant cousin. That cousin and his descendants thought little of the
  bequest. Their own acres dwindled, and their heirs grew steadily poorer.
  In 1922 when the great cult of the Seaside for Holidays was finally established and the coast of
  Devon and Cornwall was no longer thought too hot in the s