Gregory Newell Smith

eBook, ePUB

The Solitude of the Open Sea (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

A lively collection of seventeen narrative essays drawing upon the author's circumnavigation aboard an ocean-going sailboat. Subjects range from the deeply introspective and serious to the seriously funny. Everything from vignettes of peaceful anchorages to the horrors of storms at sea. Experience a genuine kava ceremony on a South Pacific island. Take a ride through Madagascar by taxi. Live through the drama of a storm in the Tasman Sea. Fun, engaging, inspiring...

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.45MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

GREGORY NEWELL SMITH, from the Pacific Northwest, is a seasoned ocean sailor and delivery captain with over 50,000 miles of blue-water experience, ranging from the coast of Alaska to the Cape of Good Hope, including a fifty-three day, 6000 mile solo passage from Panama to Hawaii. In The Solitude of the Open Sea, he draws upon his three-plus years of offshore sailing aboard his thirty-nine foot Fast Passage cutter, Atlantean, to explore the importance of broadening our horizons beyond the known and commonplace, freeing ourselves from cultural self-centeredness, and achieving self-discovery through perseverance, hardship, and solitude. The themes of the book's seventeen narrative essays are not unique to sailing, but rather are intended for a general audience of reflective readers who value travel and the insights it provides in helping us understand our place in the world around us.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seaworthy Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781892399885
• Artikelnr.: 49944917