Sea Change
Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat
by Peter Nicols
Viking, 1997
Comments: The framework for this book is a true account of writer Peter Nichol's ill-fated crossing of the Atlantic on a small sailboat named Toad. However, the deeper story involves his reflections on the boat's connection to his marriage, and the factors that led to the demise of both. It's essentially an unhappy tale about dealing with loss told through the lens of a nautical experience. The book is certainly well written and many of the sailing passages are beautifully recounted, but the overall tone of the book is somber and sorrowful. It's not exactly an inspirational adventure, but one the author does ultimately survive and grow from.
Nicols is also the author of another sailing book that I enjoyed enormously, A Voyage for Madmen, an account of the first solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the world by sailboat in 1969.
Copy Notes: Hardback, first edition
Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat
by Peter Nicols
Viking, 1997
Comments: The framework for this book is a true account of writer Peter Nichol's ill-fated crossing of the Atlantic on a small sailboat named Toad. However, the deeper story involves his reflections on the boat's connection to his marriage, and the factors that led to the demise of both. It's essentially an unhappy tale about dealing with loss told through the lens of a nautical experience. The book is certainly well written and many of the sailing passages are beautifully recounted, but the overall tone of the book is somber and sorrowful. It's not exactly an inspirational adventure, but one the author does ultimately survive and grow from.
Nicols is also the author of another sailing book that I enjoyed enormously, A Voyage for Madmen, an account of the first solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the world by sailboat in 1969.
Copy Notes: Hardback, first edition
