Sailing for Home: A Voyage from Antigua to Kinsale - Hardcover

Dorgan, Theo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844880486 ISBN 13: 9781844880485

Publisher: Penguin Ireland, 2004

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'this book is for everyone ... the fascination of the tale is because a poet is telling it' -- Doris Lessing

‘Captivating ... For the uninitiated, this book is the closest thing to getting one’s sea legs without leaving shore’ -- Sunday Business Post

‘Masterful ... At its best the writing is on a par with that of V.S. Naipaul and García Márquez’ -- Irish Independent

‘This enticing travelogue’s curious spell is slow and incremental, yet all the more potent for being stealthy ... Beguiling stuff’ -- Scotland on Sunday

Synopsis:

What happens when four people, three old sea hands and a novice (the author) cross the Atlantic aboard a 70-foot schooner? Theo Dorgan's logbook of the voyage of the Spirit of Oysterhaven from the Caribbean to the coast of Co. Cork is meditative, philosophical, and utterly absorbing. Dorgan captures the quotidian realities of a trans-Atlantic passage the importance of innumerable small rituals, the challenge of cooking in rough seas, the unspoken understandings that develop between crew members but he also attends to the numinous possibilities of life at sea: the rare vividness of dreams, visits from the ghosts of dead friends. By turns richly comic and deeply moving, "Sailing for Home" is the story of a mental and spiritual adventure as much as a physical one, a chronicle of an ordinary encounter between man and sea.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Ireland
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1844880486
• ISBN 13: 9781844880485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304