Meet The Author: Richard King

The CIYC Cruising Committee invites you to the first seminar of 2025: Sailing Solo with Richard King, author of "Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea."

King will share stories detailed in his book of not only his experience on a solo trans-Atlantic passage, but also the broad history of other individuals who have gone to sea alone, braving the elements and testing the limits of human endurance for centuries: Cruisers, racers, widows, the well-prepared, and the frustratingly underprepared.

Copies of "Sailing Alone" will be available for purchase after the seminar and can be signed by the author.

About the Author: Richard J. King is a visiting Associate Professor in Maritime History and Literature with the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA. He has been sailing on ships throughout the Atlantic and Pacific for twenty-five years, and in 2007, he sailed across the Atlantic alone in a 28' sailboat. He is the author of Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick (Chicago UP, 2019), which won an award with the North American Society of Oceanic History, was short-listed for the Connecticut Book Award, and was a New Statesman book of the year.

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