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What complex inner tides take a husband and father out to sea for a year? In this fast-paced memoir, author Max Kennedy relates the harrowing voyage to deliver his boat, The Valkyrien, a 90-foot dilapidated wooden schooner, from San Francisco to Washington, DC. From day one, Kennedy and his skeleton crew (which at times included his fifteen-year-old son) face almost insurmountable odds and personal danger in their quest to make the crossing from one side of the continent to the other. Rich in nautical detail and know-how, Kennedy draws on a lifetime of sailing adventures that began in his native waters off Cape Cod to render a vivid story of his journey and the perils and technical problems which punctuate every turn. Throughout, Kennedy questions what it truly means to be a brave man, and discovers that, for many, the hardest challenge is to stay home.

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Maxwell Taylor Kennedy is a sailor, attorney, historian, and teacher. He is the author ofDanger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her, and the best-selling compilation, Make Gentle the Life of this World: the Vision of Robert F. Kennedy and the Words that Inspired Him.His journey with theValkyriendescribed in this book was part of his advocacy work for the Pearl Coalition. Max lives in California with his wife, Vicki, and their three children.

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