Richard J. King (Sailing Alone) Author Talk
Schedule
Mon Jun 24 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Palmers Provisions and Pizza | West Mystic, CT
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Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Richard J. King for the book, Sailing Alone June 24th at 6:00pm at Palmer's Provisions and Pizza. Richard will be in conversation with Stephen Jones.This event is free and open to all, but we kindly ask that you RSVP so that we can plan accordingly. See you there! Learn more & RSVP here: https://www.banksquarebooks.com/event/richard-j-king-sailing-alone
About the Book:
“A masterfully curated collection…You don’t have to be a sailor to be blown away by this fascinating, bighearted book.”
—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, Travels with George, and Second Wind
A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history of those who chose to sail across the ocean, in very small boats, alone.
Sailing by yourself, out of sight of land, can be invigorating and terrifying, compelling and tedious – and sometimes all of the above in one morning. But it is also a wide expanse of time in which to think. Sailing Alone tells the story of some of the remarkable people who, over the last four centuries, have spent weeks and months, moving slowly over the world’s largest laboratory: a capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars, and countless sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening.
Richard J. King profiles characters famous, diverse, international, and obscure, from Joshua Slocum of 1898 to modern teenagers daring to take the challenge. They see strange hallucinations, lie to us (and themselves) on their travel logs, encounter sharks, befriend birds, and experience ESP, all part of the unnerving reality of extended isolation. And some disappear altogether. Sailing Alone also recounts the author’s own nearly catastrophic solo crossing of the Atlantic, and the mystery of his inexplicable survival one sunny afternoon.
An enormously engaging new book for skippers and armchair voyagers alike.
About the Author:
Richard J. King lived and worked in Mystic for over twenty-five years, mostly with the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program. His voyage featured in Sailing Alone left out of Noank and three of his previous books, Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick, The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History, and Lobster have chapters set on the Mystic River and Long Island Sound.
About Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones is professor emeritus in the Maritime Studies Program which he co-founded for the University of Connecticut at Avery Point. He served his military obligation in the Coast Guard aboard an offshore lighthouse during the Mid-Atlantic Storm of the Century and later at a lifeboat station. His books on coastal culture include Drifting, Harbor of Refuge, Back Waters, Short Voyages, Working Thin Waters, and the Flat Hammock press editions of Ellery Thompson's Draggerman's Haul and the Arthur Henry/Theodore Dreiser An Island Cabin. He has been executive producer of numerous maritime documentaries, including The Real McCoy, winner of five Emmys, and Ferryboats of the Connecticut River. He and his son Captian Geoffrey Jones run two maritime facilities on the Mystic River. He has served on the Town of Groton Shellfish Commission since 1968.
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Where is it happening?
Palmers Provisions and Pizza, 17 Pearl St, Noank, CT 06340,Noank,CT,United States, West MysticEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
