Round the World in the Wrong Season (eBook)

Eric Wiberg (Autor)

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2010 | 1., 2nd, 2017, 1st 2010
450 Seiten
Island Books (Verlag)
978-0-9983759-8-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Written between 1994 and 2009, is a memoir of global travel and an unfulfilled college crush. The book follows the narrator out of school and across the Pacific. At only 23 he has command of a 68-foot Burmese-teak ketch built in Scotland thrust upon him. The owner is on a voyage home to his death, and along the way they hire sailors twice the skipper's age. They makes it to New Zealand in a storm which sinks seven yachts, then spends months shearing sheep and writing a memoir. By the time the narrator makes a rendezvous with his college sweetheart (who has been teaching Thai students on the Burmese border), she seems to have all but forgotten him. This leads to a less than satisfactory denouement and puts at least one of them in the hospital. The book includes extensive photographs and hand-drawn charts and a detailed bibliography.

Inhalt

Cast of Character viiGlossary of Terms ixI. Nassau, Bahamas 1
 1 At First Sight 1
 2. First Summer After School 9
 3. Otherwise Terrible 19
 4. Reprieve 24
II. Panamas 33
 5. A Surprise 33
 6. Exploring 43
 7. Changing of the Guard 48
 8. Shakedown Voyage 53
 9. Clandestine Departure 67
III. Galapagos 72
 10. Under Way 72
 11. Convivial Christmas 76
 12. False Start 100
 13. More Crew Changes 119
 14. First Command 127
IV. Voyage 149
 15. Overcoming Obstacles 149
 16. Marquesas & Tuamotu Archipelagoes 166
 17. Tahiti, Presqu’île, Moorea & Tetiaroa 198
 18. The Cook Islands 219
 19. Tonga's Capital 230V. New Zealand's Capital 244
 20. Re-Acclimatization 244
 21. Wanderlust - to Invercargill & the Bluff 262
 222. Steward Island, Oban, Halfmoon Bay, Masons Bay______276
 223. Heading Back North 288
 24. The Worst Month 307
VI. Full Circle 316
 26. Breakdown, Sydney 316
 26. Bangkok & Southern Thailand 322
 27. Full Moon Festival, Koh Phangan 326
 28. Retreat, Homeward Bound via Sweden, UK 331Epilogue 334About the Author_________________________________________453

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• Schlagworte: Australia • Bangkok • Bermuda • Boston College • Camden Maine • camper & nicholson • Coming-of-age • Cook Islands • Danyryds Sjukhus • Full Moon Party • Galapagos • Ko Phangan • Lincoln Maine • London • Maturity • Memoir • Miami • narrative • Nassau Bahamas • Newport RI • New Zealand • nuku'alofa • Oxford • Polynesia • rorotonga • sailboat voyage • Saturday Cove Maine • scottish yacht • south pacific ocean • Stockholm • Sydney • Thailand • Tonga • Tongatapu • trans-Pacific voyage • Voyage • Yacht Stornoway
• ISBN-10: 0-9983759-8-5 / 0998375985
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9983759-8-4 / 9780998375984