The vouage os Squeak - Three Years in a 12-foot Boat
Year: 2000 Language: english Author: Ladd S. Genre: History Publisher: Seekers Press ISBN: 0966933737 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 390 Description: This is the true narrative of a middle-aged poet who rows and sails a featherweight wooden boat through nineteen countries - 15,000 miles - to relive his youth and savor adventure. While courting disaster in some of the Western Hemisphere's remotest corners, he records nature, cultures, and his own emotional processes. Additional info: Opiniones editoriales Review One of the most fascinating, well-written voyage accounts we've ever read, easily on a par with old Josh Slocum himself. --Latitude 38 From the Publisher Bent on discovery, Ladd ranges from Montana to a harrowing sail along the pirate-ridden coast of Panama and Colombia, across the Andes, down a 600-mile river by night to avoid guerrillas, to the Antilles and the Caribbean. Robbed, capsized, arrested and befriended, he sails and rows through a tumult of uncharted adventures. The cast of characters: Dieter, mad ex-Nazi on a desert island; Hans, the smuggler who disappears at sea; castaways, prostitutes, and fortune seekers. Stow away with a poetic storyteller on a stormy, soulful voyage through nineteen countries, on the razor's edge between freedom and fear, loneliness and love. About the Author Stephen G. Ladd was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1953. As a child he was happy to sit in a corner reading books of history or geography. After high school he traveled through Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, passing a traumatic month in a Moroccan prison. He navigated the emotional crisis of his youth alone, in foreign cultures. Upon his return, Steve studied urban planning, obtaining degrees from Western Washington and Harvard Universities. From 1976 to 1990 he worked for various cities, writing land use plans and environmental regulations. He also advanced his poetry and music, and forestalled his wanderlust by wilderness skiing. 1987 found Steve still single, hardy, and non-materialistic, so he spent three years designing and building the 12-foot Squeak; and three more years sailing her through nineteen countries. Steve returned home in 1993. He finished his manuscript and once again plans for cities. Meanwhile his wanderlust slowly wells anew.
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The vouage os Squeak - Three Years in a 12-foot Boat
Language: english
Author: Ladd S.
Genre: History
Publisher: Seekers Press
ISBN: 0966933737
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 390
Description: This is the true narrative of a middle-aged poet who rows and sails a featherweight wooden boat through nineteen countries - 15,000 miles - to relive his youth and savor adventure. While courting disaster in some of the Western Hemisphere's remotest corners, he records nature, cultures, and his own emotional processes.
Additional info: Opiniones editoriales
Review
One of the most fascinating, well-written voyage accounts we've ever read, easily on a par with old Josh Slocum himself. --Latitude 38
From the Publisher
Bent on discovery, Ladd ranges from Montana to a harrowing sail along the pirate-ridden coast of Panama and Colombia, across the Andes, down a 600-mile river by night to avoid guerrillas, to the Antilles and the Caribbean. Robbed, capsized, arrested and befriended, he sails and rows through a tumult of uncharted adventures.
The cast of characters: Dieter, mad ex-Nazi on a desert island; Hans, the smuggler who disappears at sea; castaways, prostitutes, and fortune seekers.
Stow away with a poetic storyteller on a stormy, soulful voyage through nineteen countries, on the razor's edge between freedom and fear, loneliness and love.
About the Author
Stephen G. Ladd was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1953. As a child he was happy to sit in a corner reading books of history or geography. After high school he traveled through Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, passing a traumatic month in a Moroccan prison. He navigated the emotional crisis of his youth alone, in foreign cultures. Upon his return, Steve studied urban planning, obtaining degrees from Western Washington and Harvard Universities. From 1976 to 1990 he worked for various cities, writing land use plans and environmental regulations. He also advanced his poetry and music, and forestalled his wanderlust by wilderness skiing. 1987 found Steve still single, hardy, and non-materialistic, so he spent three years designing and building the 12-foot Squeak; and three more years sailing her through nineteen countries. Steve returned home in 1993. He finished his manuscript and once again plans for cities. Meanwhile his wanderlust slowly wells anew.
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