Seamanship
A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles
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Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveseamanshipvoyage0000nico
- ISBN-100060753447
- ISBN-139780060753443
- Goodreads2045985
- LibraryThing687558
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- OCLC Control Number148665229
- Better World Books9780060753443
- Open LibraryOL7281064M
Classifications
- DDC910/.9163/37
- LCCDA632 .N53 2005
Description
Thoughts from a small boat in a big sea. Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go for an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a 42-foot wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how to sail, he set off up the Atlantic coasts of the British Isles: Cornwall to Scilly, over to Pembrokeshire and the west of Ireland, to the Hebrides and its offliers, St Kilda and North Rona, before heading on to Orkney, and finally to the Faroes, a 200-mile leap out into the autumn winds of the North Atlantic. But the book is not just a travel journal. Adam Nicolson writes of his own yearnings for the sea and for wide open spaces. His year is strung between the competing claims of leaving and belonging, of thinking that no life could be more exhilarating than battling a big gale driving in out of the Atlantic and of wanting to be back, in harbour, safe, still and protected.
First Sentence
I was having an affair with the Atlantic.
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