| The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea Contributor(s): South, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 006074703X ISBN-13: 9780060747039 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 Annotation: At 40, novice sailor South traded in her pleasant yet dull life for the open seas. What began as an idle wish to follow her dream became a crash course in navigating the ghosts of family and loves lost, and the realization of what it means to cast off an old life and make a new one. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Sailing - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.74" W x 8" (0.44 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months later she had quit her job, sold the house, and was living aboard a forty-foot, thirty-ton steel trawler she rechristened Bossanova. Despite her total lack of experience, South set out on her maiden voyage--a fifteen-hundred-mile odyssey from Florida to Maine--with her one-man, two-dog crew. But what began as the fulfillment of an idle wish became a crash course in navigating the complicated byways of the self. |
Contributor Bio(s): South, Mary: - Mary South was a founding editor of Riverhead Books. In the course of her career, she edited an eclectic list of award-winning and bestselling books, including The South Beach Diet. When she is not aboard the Bossanova, South lives in New York City, where she is now senior editor of Yachting magazine. |
