Detlev Henschel

Going Solo on the Baltic Sea (eBook, ePUB)

2,500 Kilometres to the Arctic Circle by Kayak

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scientist (Dr.) Henschel has jumped out of the Rat Race of an excellently paid, secure job. Just like this! From one day to the next, without any social safety net and fully comprehensive insurance, which is so much being loved by the Germans. To flare out his Free Fall in an increasingly uncertain society, his 'personal parachute' is a kayak into the sunset. This adventure brings him in 91 days from the German northern Flensburg to the top end of the Baltic Sea, the Arctic Circle. Due to the aversion of the past years, his personal 'purification ritual' is to live only on nature, to 'get rid of the accumulated dirt', as he says himself, so was the plan. This expedition will be an outdoor paddle experience living from the land on the brink of sheer survival. His book on edible wild plants, which describes his diet on the voyage, immediately became a bestseller in Germany. The original idea of the kayaking expedition was to do the entire Baltic Sea and live solely off the fat of the land like a 'budding Viking' - a pure minimalist Thoreau life. He dubbed the project 'Shin-ken Sho-bu' as a nod to his first year in Japan: 'Doing things with deadly seriousness', which, as it turned out, couldn't have been more apt: halfway through the trip, a cross-eyed motorboat captain ended up crushing him against the wall in a Swedish lock. The resulting bone splinters and cervical spine syndrome kept him side-lined for a year before he could eventually resume the expedition. Detlev had to rethink his original plan. After all, dreams meet reality out at sea and there is an adventure lurking around every corner! Loneliness, hunger, self-doubt and the monotony of paddling were his constant companions on the ninety-one-day voyage, not to mention the pain of sitting for hours on end, the torments of the unpredictable Baltic Sea, the icy Northern European weather and his frequent lack of energy, even for the cozy nightly campfire. Especially in our fast-moving, jaded times, Detlev's ironic, self-critical and frank account and the descriptions of his bare-knuckle experiences make for a riveting read - not only for paddlers but also anyone who is fed up with life and the daily grind, still has dreams and might like to see them materialize one day. Detlev has been on a number of unusual expeditions since and coined his 'RoNindoc' philosophy: 'Applied Philosophy - Requiem'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: via tolino media
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783739488394
• Artikelnr.: 58801314

Autorenporträt

The scientist (Dr.) grew up in a village upon the North Sea. The bestselling author of books has written for magazines since 1982, too. After 28 yrs of martial arts and applied philosophy, he lives and thinks extremely and describes himself as a radical realist of the outdoor scene. He is a survival specialist of a different kind. For him, traveling does not consist of start and destination, but the between. Only a few adventurers can incorporate science and philosophy into the texts like him.