Elizabeth Garber

Sailing at the Edge of Disaster (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of a Young Woman's Daring Year

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1971, Elizabeth Garber's domineering father announced he was sending his "problem children"-seventeen-year-old bookish Elizabeth and her fourteen-year-old brother Woodie-to a school on a sailing ship, in order to "shape up and learn to work." Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Daring Year chronicles Garber's adventures, along with the fifty teen misfits and their teacher chaperones aboard the sailing school housed on a once-magnificent yacht formerly owned by General Post heiress, socialite, and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post. Sailing at the Edge of Disaster follows the journey of Oceanics School students and faculty as they motor the limping ship out of Miami to begin the grand itinerary their charismatic twenty-five-year-old school director envisioned. Along the way, the ship survives a gale at sea, a hole in the hull at deep water, an act of piracy, a near miss with a nuclear sub, and is held hostage by armed gunboats in Panama. The print version of the book was published by Toad Hall Editions, Northport, ME.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Toad Hall Editions
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798218145170
• Artikelnr.: 67382441

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth W. Garber is the author of Implosion: Memoir of an Architect's Daughter, a 2018 Finalist for theIndie Next Generation Book Award for Memoir. She is also the author of three collections of poetry and acollaboration with painter/photographer Michael Weymouth-Maine (Island Time) combining her poetryand essays with his paintings and photographs focused on the Penobscot Bay area of the Maine coast.She has maintained a private practice of acupuncture for nearly forty years in mid-coast Maine, whereshe raised her family. For more information, please visit elizabethgarber.com