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Article: Where the winds get lost. (Horse Latitudes)
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- Yachting
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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If Columbus wasn't the first European to set foot in the New World, he was the first to experience the Horse Latitudes (a.k.a. The Variables) first-hand - and survive to tell about them.
On September 21, 13 days out from the Canaries, he lost the steady Northeast Trades and entered a region later called The Horse Latitudes. The unexpected calms and fitful winds lasted 15 days. Being so long from land, his superstitious crew became restive and muttered mutiny. Although there was no wind to speak of, currents carried the flotilla farther along until they regained the Trades and made their historic landfall in the Bahamas on October 12.
Decades later, ...
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Article: Horse Latitudes
The Virginia Quarterly Review;
April 1, 2007 ;
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...Horse Latitudes, by Paul Muldoon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2006. $22 Horse Latitudes, released concurrently with Muldoon's Oxford Lectures (The End of the Poem), is as smart as it is witty, as referential to popular culture ...
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