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Sail Away (Tr) Paperback - 2001

by Lena Lencek (Editor); Gideon Bosker (Editor)

"Sail Away" brings together the very finest writing about travel on water by a stellar crew of writers: Joseph Conrad, Jacques Cousteau, Roald Dahl, Lawrence Durrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Thor Heyerdahl, Jonathan Raban, Paul Theroux, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, David Foster Wallace, and Evelyn Waugh. 15 photos throughout.


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Something happens when men and women put a plank between themselves and the water and set out on a voyage, whether for a day or a lifetime. Now Sail Away brings together the very finest writing about travel on water by a stellar crew of writers. Among those to be included are Joseph Conrad, Jacques Cousteau, Roald Dahl, Lawrence Durrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Thor Heyerdahl, Jonathan Raban, Paul Theroux, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, David Foster Wallace, and Evelyn Waugh. Packaged as the perfect companion to Beach, with atmospheric photos by Beach photographer Mittie Hellmich, Sail Away will be an important addition to the tradition of best-selling books about ships and the sea.

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TO ONE UNFAMILIAR with the technicalities of sailing, Migael Scherer's "Reading the Weather" (2000) is a revelation, a prose haiku of two hundred or so words that encapsulate the wisdom of sailors since time immemorial.

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  • Title Sail Away (Tr)
  • Author Lena Lencek (Editor); Gideon Bosker (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition first Edtion; Fi
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-06-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781569245842 / 1569245843
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.09 x 0.93 in (22.81 x 15.47 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sea stories, Sailing
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001030024
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2001, Page 2091
  • Library Journal, 08/03/2001, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/06/2001, Page 0

About the author

LENA LENCEK and GIDEON BOSKER specialize in popular culture and have co-written more than ten books, including The Beach: A History of Paradise on Earth (a New York Times Notable Book for 1998) and Beaches, a photographic survey of the world's most beautiful beaches. Lencek is a professor of Russian and the humanities at Reed College, and Bosker, a physician, is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. They live in Portland, Oregon.
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