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Gib's Odyssey is the true story of an extraordinary man, Gib Peters, and his solo journey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrig's disease. On an astonishing six-month voyage, Gib and his boat, Ka-Ching, encounter everything from an incompetent sailboat captain who lets his tow-rope wrap around Ka-Ching's propellers and when he dives into the water to cut it loose accidently stabs himself with his knife, to the Navy and Coast Guard Zodiacs rushing to stop him from entering a naval bombardment zone. Gib carries out epic searches for his two kittens when they go AWOL at an Atlantic City marina and when one later falls overboard. All the while, he is forced to cope with increasing levels of paralysis, steering the boat home with his feet and unable to speak. Authored by Gib's neurologist, Gib's Odyssey is told in Gib's own voice through a series of e-mails and articles he wrote for the Key West Citizen. Part travelogue, part soul-searching meditation, it is the uplifting and sometimes hilarious story of one man's conquest of death and his profound insights into life.
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"Travel often inspires deep reflection on themes like resilience, familiarity, and resolve. All three of those threads are artfully explored in Gib's Odyssey...
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"Marcia kissed me goodbye, ceremoniously tossed off the lines, and I eased my vessel off the seawall. It was May 19, 2004, at 10:30 a.m. And so it began. An odyssey to somewhere--maybe the Bahamas, New York, the Great Lakes, then down the Mississippi to the Gulf, or maybe none of these. If my boat and I hold together, maybe all of these and more. . . . In February of 2003 I was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS. . . . As simply as I can tell it, I want to provoke my ALS to a fight. A solo trek in a small boat provides the adventures, challenges, and solitude needed to test me. . . . This voyage is simply pure provocation of my disease and a way to face its devastation and brag about how I did it."
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- PublisherThe Lyons Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0762764163
- ISBN 13 9780762764167
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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