Running Away to Sea
The dream of leaving land behind – and how to do it
$64.72
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2027
Summary
‘A beautiful story of sea-soaked obsession.’ Philip Marsden
‘A deeply life-giving book… Thoroughly enchanting.’ Kim Brown Seely
‘A captivating tale…a must read.’ Paul Heiney
‘The truth is you’ll likely never have lived in rougher, more beggarly conditions than on a small offshore yacht. Yet I will show you that the sea will also make you a king.’
Running Away to Sea is the compelling and movin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399426930 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399426931 |
| Author: | Sebastian Smith |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
A delightful and beautiful ode to the sea and the desire in all of us to be transported. Sebastian Smith has written a book that is part travelogue, part meditation on our enduring fascination with sailing and our need to pit ourselves against the elements and our own self-imposed limitations. * Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times Journalist *
A beautiful story of sea-soaked obsession. Sebastian Smith charts his sailing life from absolute novice to ocean-master, from war reporter to husband and father, leaving you with a profound sense of the rewards and perils of life aboard - life enhanced, life enlarged and enriched. * Philip Marsden, author of The Summer Isles: A Voyage of the Imagination *
A captivating tale, and an inspiring one, yet packed with good advice based on hard won experience. High seas and high ambition. It’s a must-read if you want to follow in his wake. – Paul Heiney
Sebastian Smith’s Running Away to Sea is a thoroughly enchanting tribute to the pull of the ocean – and one of the best books I’ve ever read about learning to sail and leaving land behind. Smith shows us, in seamless prose, how wedded to screens and schedules most of us are and proves how anyone with enough moxie can learn to sail different boats at different stages of life. By his third boat, he and his wife are deftly bluewater cruising and adventuring with two young daughters. A deeply life-giving book with excellent advice on the nitty-gritty of boating and voyaging, step by step. * Kim Brown Seely, author of Uncharted: A Couple’s Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another *
Sebastian Smith’s advice on running away to sea is as sound as eight bells, but he gives us so much more – a chart of how life can be lived to the full, ‘as trespassers, forever tiptoeing in wonder through the house of God’.
Smith goes beyond telling us how. He also tells us why, and nobody does it better.
* Tom Cunliffe *Sebastian Smith
Sebastian Smith has been a foreign correspondent for three decades with AFP. He won the prestigious Albert Londres prize for reporting on the Chechen war, covered the Trump White House, and chronicled human triumph and disaster from Siberia to the Amazon. At 30, he took to the sea, and since then boats have been at the heart of life with his wife and daughters. He has also written for The Economist, The Times, SAIL and Practical Boat Owner.
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