Alastair Buchan – författare

Primer on Cerebrovascular Research provides both clinical and basic cerebrovascular knowledge that is required for physicians, vascular researchers, biomedical students, and trainees to understand or conduct evidence-based clinical practice and cutting-edge experimental research. This book outlines how to a design experimental cerebrovascular research in the context of clinical relevance, conduct the study using proper methods, analyze the data accurately, and make conclusions in an unbiased and statistically correct way. Chapters will include representative examples and experimental protocols.

Based on the author''s Sailing an Atlantic Circuit, this practical, how-to guide to the planning, preparation and execution ofa passage is both a helpful and an inspirational book forall sailors considering an offshore or ocean passage.

A vastly experienced Atlantic ocean sailor, Alastair Buchan looks indetail at three specific passages (a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, apassage from the Eastern Seaboard of the USA to the Caribbean, andcruising around the Caribbean itself). The advice, ranging fromchoosing/refitting a boat, insurance, safety, training crew and routeplanning to watch keeping, weather routeing, heavy weather strategiesand disaster management, is applicable to any other open sea passageand will be invaluable to any would-be long distance sailors.

Illustrated throughout with helpful diagrams, maps, and inspirationalphotography, this is an essential handbook for all sailors aspiring tomake an offshore or ocean passage.

''An informative common sense approach...from decades of personal experience'' Dorset Echo''A comprehensive user-friendly guide that will inspire anyarmchair dreamer...thoroughly informative and entertainingly written'' Yachting Monthly

Based on the author''s Sailing an Atlantic Circuit, this practical, how-to guide to the planning, preparation and execution of a passage is both a helpful and an inspirational book for all sailors considering an offshore or ocean passage.

A vastly experienced Atlantic ocean sailor, Alastair Buchan looks in detail at three specific passages (a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, a passage from the Eastern Seaboard of the USA to the Caribbean, and cruising around the Caribbean itself). The advice, ranging from choosing/refitting a boat, insurance, safety, training crew and route planning to watch keeping, weather routeing, heavy weather strategies and disaster management, is applicable to any other open sea passage and will be invaluable to any would-be long distance sailors.

Illustrated throughout with helpful diagrams, maps, and inspirational photography, this is an essential handbook for all sailors aspiring to make an offshore or ocean passage.

''An informative common sense approach...from decades of personal experience'' Dorset Echo ''A comprehensive user-friendly guide that will inspire any armchair dreamer...thoroughly informative and entertainingly written'' Yachting Monthly