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Book Review of Sea Change : Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat

Sea Change : Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat
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With only a sextant, his instincts as a seasoned sailor, and a boat filled with memories of his floundering marriage, Peter Nichols sets out alone from England headed toward Maine, where he plans to sell his beloved, twenty-seven foot engineless boat, TOAD. Halfway across the ocean, his boat springs a leak and his voyage becomes a desperate struggle to survive. Filled with clear, luminous prose, SEA CHANGE is a classic tale of a man struggling to come to terms with his reckless spirit, his highest hopes, and his broken dreams.