num_pages: 352
description: Something happens when men and women put a plank between themselves and the water and set out on a voyage, whether for a day or a lifetime. Now Sail Away brings together the very finest writing about travel on water by a stellar crew of writers. Among those to be included are Joseph Conrad, Jacques Cousteau, Roald Dahl, Lawrence Durrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Thor Heyerdahl, Jonathan Raban, Paul Theroux, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, David Foster Wallace, and Evelyn Waugh. Packaged as the perfect companion to Beach, with atmospheric photos by Beach photographer Mittie Hellmich, Sail Away will be an important addition to the tradition of best-selling books about ships and the sea.Reading the weather / Migael Scherer --from Twenty thousand leagues under the sea / Jules Verne --from Kon-tiki / Thor Heyerdahl --from Caught inside / Daniel Duane --from Land's edge / Tim Winton --from Close to the wind / Pete Goss --from A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again / David Foster Wallace --Storm warning / Bryan Burrough --from Caldo Largo / Earl Thompson --Dip in the pool / Roald Dahl --The gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin --A maritime people / James Reid Parker --from The Seabourn Spirit to Istanbul / Paul Theroux --The voyage out / John Rolfe Gardiner --The great wave / Mary Lavin --Afternoon of the Sassanoa / Jason Brown --from My ship is so small / Ann Davison --from The big sea / Lanston Hughes --from To the lighthouse / Virginia Wolff --Passage to Fudaraku / Inque Yasushi --Harbor / W.S. Merwin
language: English
title: Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea
titlecomplete: Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea
genres: Nonfiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Da Capo Press