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Blue Horizons: Dispatches from Distant Seas
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Blue Horizons: Dispatches from Distant Seas |
Author: Beth Leonard
Published: 2006-09-05 |
List price: $22.95
Our price: $14.26
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As of: December 02nd, 2008 09:31:46 PM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Blue Horizons
Very engaging story. The transformation from everyday life to a simpler one connected with nature and a spiritual awareness is inspiring.
Blue Horizons Review
This book reads like a novel about the cruising experience and why people want to sail to far away places. It's not a How-To book; Beth's other book "The Voyagers Handbook" is an excellent How-To reference for offshore sailing. In Blue Horizon Beth shares her reasons for sailing to far away places and her inner feelings and awareness during her travels. She describes the beauty, the satisfactions, the thrills and the fears she experiences. This book can be enjoyed by the non sailor as well as the sailor. An added treat is to put the Lat Long for each destination into Google Earth and view photos that travelers have inserted. The photos provide a view of the scenes that Beth and Evan enjoyed.
A Must Read for Cruisers
Blue Horizons is a collection of articles originally appearing in Blue Water Sailing magazine. Presented as a series of expanded log entries or perhaps long letters home, Leonard chronicles a six year sailing adventure through the high latitudes of the northern and southern hemispheres. Blue Horizons is more than a travelogue or the story of a sailing adventure, it is one woman's journey of self-exploration as she and her partner Evans sail around the world.
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br /Leonard explores her relationship with her partner, her friends and family, herself and her world. Along the way we are treated to vivid descriptions of the majesty of the high latitudes and the generosity of those who live in the far corners of the world. Leonard's accounts are frank and honest. No, it is not all paradise; one can get seasick, one does get angry with one's partner. Perhaps the most poignant passages are those addressing her relationship with the sea, and the personal transformations that occur on long ocean passages. Sailing brings one closer to the natural world, a world Leonard aptly describes.
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br /Blue Horizons is a compelling read. If you're considering an ocean voyage, Blue Horizons is a must read. For the rest of us, it is enjoyable read of one woman's exploration of seldom traveled lands and herself.
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Outstanding..
Outstanding. There is a reason we sail that goes beyond wind, water and something to do. Read the book...
 Interesting but not what I expected
Sailing journey books-- the Pardy's most notably, but other as well- usually follow a trip from start to finish. The little mediations you find on nature, self-reliance and self-realization are embedded within a longer narrative about storms, calms, pirates and other near disasters. This book is different and I'm not sure what to make of it. Leonard has the poet's gift for observation and description and pretty much what this book is is a collection of these meditations, within the frame of a few pages of log entries. Don't get me wrong, you know she's on a sailboat, this book doesn't read like "Daily Mediations for Sailors" but as much as I admire her writerly skill, I do prefer a bit more story in my sea stories.
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br /Still, the book's keeper. And I don't keep anything except for books that really interest me.
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