West coast Quote by Rick Atkinson

“more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England’s west coast. For all these vessels to…

— Rick Atkinson

“Two great armadas would carry more than 100,000 troops to the invasion beaches. One fleet would sail 2,800 miles from Britain to Algeria, with…

— Rick Atkinson

“TWO hundred and thirty nautical miles southeast of Gibraltar, Oran perched above the sea, a splinter of Europe cast onto the African shore. Of…

— Rick Atkinson

“CASABLANCA provided Vichy with its best anchorage south of Toulon, and the French navy had chosen to defend the Moroccan port with valor worthy…

— Rick Atkinson

“come on mama, let's rent us a boat sail down that gibraltar moat shed a tear every time we pass tangier”

— Townes Van Zandt

The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their…

— Nicholas Rodger

The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“in those days, the Corrected Hydrographic Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean, say, or the tables in Brown’s Nautical Almanac. Under the charm of these…

— Ernest Hemingway

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Shortly after sunset on November 5, the convoy began to swing east, past the Pillars of Hercules. Soon the fleet would split apart, with…

— Rick Atkinson

“for centuries much of the world's international trade was carried in ships that sailed past West Africa on their way between Europe and Asia…

— Thomas Sowell

It's called a sea anchor,' [Evanlyn] explained. 'It'll stop us drifting too far.' Alyss was impressed. 'And you said you were pig-ignorant when it…

— John Flanagan