Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper

Auteurs

• John Kretschmer

Paramètres

• 224 pages
• 8 heures de lecture

• Aventure
• Biographies et réflexions
• Cartes et voyages
• Nonfiction
• Tourisme / Voyage

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The adventure-laden tales of a sailboat delivery skipper, in his own words. Consistently captivating, John Kretschmer's stories are alternately funny and harrowing. Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. In Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he discovers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in a high impact debris zone, but his resolve is unshaken. If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank [me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega, a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2018
• Reliure: (souple)