Overview
From Land's End to Cape Clear, past Roaringwater Bay and Cod's Head, on past Inishvickillane and Inishtooskert, up through the Hebrides, to Orkney and on to the Faeroes stretches the richest and wildest coastline in Europe. Adam Nicolson decided to sail this coast in the Auk, a 42-foot wooden ketch, embarking on a 1,500-mile voyage through what he hoped would be a sequence of revelatory landscapes. He was not disappointed. Seamanship is more than a travel journal. It describes an inner journey as much as an outer one--disasters and discoveries, powerful landscapes and modern visionaries, and encounters with the animals living on the wild edge of the Atlantic. Above all, it is about the gaps that open up between those who go and those who stay at home. Seamanship, in the end, is not about the sea. It's about being alive.
Full Product Details
Author: Adam Nicolson
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: Collins
Dimensions:
Width: 13.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 20.20cm
Weight: 0.154kg
ISBN: 9780060753443
ISBN 10: 0060753447
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 August 2007
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
A superb book, as wise as it is beautiful. ----Bernard Cornwell A genuinely intriguing, thoughtful work. ----Mail on Sunday An odyssey of island hopping and psychic exploration. ----Kirkus Reviews A dazzling triumph--a profound and magical account of a voyage along the wild edges of the British coast. --Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award
An odyssey of island hopping and psychic exploration. ----Kirkus Reviews A superb book, as wise as it is beautiful. ----Bernard Cornwell A dazzling triumph--a profound and magical account of a voyage along the wild edges of the British coast. --Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award A genuinely intriguing, thoughtful work. ----Mail on Sunday
A dazzling triumph-a profound and magical account of a voyage along the wild edges of the British coast. -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award A superb book, as wise as it is beautiful. -- -Bernard Cornwell A genuinely intriguing, thoughtful work. -- --Mail on Sunday A superb book, as wise as it is beautiful. ----Bernard Cornwell An odyssey of island hopping and psychic exploration. ----Kirkus Reviews A dazzling triumph--a profound and magical account of a voyage along the wild edges of the British coast. --Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award A genuinely intriguing, thoughtful work. ----Mail on Sunday An odyssey of island hopping and psychic exploration. ----Kirkus Reviews A superb book, as wise as it is beautiful. ----Bernard Cornwell A dazzling triumph a profound and magical account of a voyage along the wild edges of the British coast. --Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award A genuinely intriguing, thoughtful work. ----Mail on Sunday
A superb book, as wise as it is beautiful. ----Bernard Cornwell A dazzling triumph--a profound and magical account of a voyage along the wild edges of the British coast. --Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award A genuinely intriguing, thoughtful work. ----Mail on Sunday An odyssey of island hopping and psychic exploration. ----Kirkus Reviews
A genuinely intriguing, thoughtful work. -- --Mail on Sunday
Author Information
Adam Nicols on is the author of Seamanship, God's Secretaries, and Seize the Fire. He has won both the Somerset Maugham and William Heinemann awards, and he lives with his family at Sissinghurst Castle in England.
