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Tide-Mark Press, Limited
Following Seas: Sailing the Globe, Sounding a Life
Following Seas: Sailing the Globe, Sounding a Life
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This tale of a circumnavigation is also the story of one woman's journey into her dream. Beth Leonard followed the success path of the materialistic '80s, a path that took her away from the core of herself, family and friends, and the sense of fulfillment that only comes from within.
The story begins when, despite her lack of sailing expertise, her partner Evans Starzinger suggests they circumnavigate the world in a small sailing boat. She listens to her heart and chooses to follow the sea and chase her dream of becoming a writer.
In the three-year circumnavigation, there are intervals of up to 29 days when she and Evans are alone at sea. Ms. Leonard reads the early ocean explorers' logs and journals. She feels their presence as she faces the same dangers and celebrates the same landfalls. At each landfall, she immerses herself in cultures where life is lived to different rhythms. She learns from the hospitality, humility, and hope of the people she meets in a South Pacific pearling lagoon, a South African laundromat, and a café in the Azores. From these new perspectives, she discovers how to live a life both fulfilling and satisfying.
Armchair sailors and adventurers alike will be drawn into her voyage of discovery and change. Anyone with an unquenchable dream will find in these pages the encouragement to chase that dream, right over the horizon...and find themselves at journey's end.
The story begins when, despite her lack of sailing expertise, her partner Evans Starzinger suggests they circumnavigate the world in a small sailing boat. She listens to her heart and chooses to follow the sea and chase her dream of becoming a writer.
In the three-year circumnavigation, there are intervals of up to 29 days when she and Evans are alone at sea. Ms. Leonard reads the early ocean explorers' logs and journals. She feels their presence as she faces the same dangers and celebrates the same landfalls. At each landfall, she immerses herself in cultures where life is lived to different rhythms. She learns from the hospitality, humility, and hope of the people she meets in a South Pacific pearling lagoon, a South African laundromat, and a café in the Azores. From these new perspectives, she discovers how to live a life both fulfilling and satisfying.
Armchair sailors and adventurers alike will be drawn into her voyage of discovery and change. Anyone with an unquenchable dream will find in these pages the encouragement to chase that dream, right over the horizon...and find themselves at journey's end.
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