James Baldwin's new book: Next Distant Sea
https://www.amazon.com/Next-Distant-Sea-Continues-Circumnavigation-ebook/dp/B078QYC3QC
"In this, the third book about his travels aboard the 28-foot sailboat
Atom, James Baldwin creates an ode to the sea and to those who venture
upon her in small voyaging sailboats. The Next Distant Sea continues the
memoir of his second adventurous circumnavigation as begun in his
earlier book Bound for Distant Seas.
Known for books and
magazine articles about his earlier solo voyages, the author here
describes the struggles and rewards of navigating distant seas, the joys
and challenges of interacting with foreign cultures, as well as the
love and loss of an intoxicating island girl. Beginning in Hong Kong,
The Next Distant Sea takes readers to diverse destinations, through the
lesser-travelled islands of the Philippines and Indonesia, to far-flung
island outposts in the Indian Ocean, including a lengthy exploration of
mysterious Madagascar, then on to newly post-apartheid South Africa.
Along
the way Baldwin’s personal journey is interwoven with tales of the
extraordinary and often outlandish characters he befriended, from a man
who crossed the Pacific alone in a dugout canoe, to a vagabond trader
who traveled to the poorest ports of east Africa in an engineless steel
junk, to a young sailor who tragically lost his life. By melding their
stories and his own, Baldwin provides valuable insight into the
individualist, minimalist, and libertarian mindset of the voyaging
vagabond."
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