About this item
"A masterfully curated collection...You don't have to be a sailor to be blown away by this fascinating, bighearted book." - Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, Travels with George, and Second Wind. A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history of those who chose to sail across the ocean, in very small boats, alone.. Sailing by yourself, out of sight of land, can be invigorating and terrifying, compelling and tedious - and sometimes all of the above in one morning. But it is also a wide expanse of time in which to think. Sailing Alone tells the story of some of the remarkable people who, over the last four centuries, have spent weeks and months, moving slowly over the world's largest laboratory: a capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars, and countless sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening.
About the Author
Richard J. King is the author of "Lobster," acclaimed by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and "The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History," selected as a top-five science book of the year by Library Journal and short-listed for the ASLE Creative Book Award. He also is the author and illustrator of the memoir "Meeting Tom Brady." Most recently he is the author of "Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick," released this fall 2019. King is series editor for Seafaring America with UP New England, edits the "Searchable Sea Literature" website, and has published widely on maritime topics in scholarly and popular magazines. He writes and illustrates a regular column on animals for the kids' section of Sea History magazine and is a visiting professor at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA. For more, please see "www.richardjking.info"
