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Airborne : A Sentimental Journey by Buckley, William F., Jr., Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley, William Frank BUCKLEY is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Airborne : A Sentimental Journey about?

Airborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends. The trip, for fifteen years a dream, for fifteen months a planned operation, was always a risk: one doesn't set out haphazardly in a small sailboat across 4,400 miles of ocean, and Buckley's account of perils of the sea as experienced by himself since he acquired his first sailboat at age thirteen is at once graphic, instructive, and terrifying. But, we learn quickly, the concern is mostly for the prospect of thirty days and thirty nights away from the cosmopolitan jungle to which he and his friends are accustomed; their lair, so to speak. But it happened: notwithstanding vicissitudes amusing, annoying, and even dangerous, suddenly the schooner, and the entire trip, were airborne, and the experience resulted in a fusion of hopes, fears, ambitions, and pleasures that lifts the book from the category of mere chronicles of the sea, into a chronicle of our time, a passage of the spirit.

Author

Buckley, William F., Jr., Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley, William Frank BUCKLEY

Publisher

The Lyons Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781493079193

Subjects

Sports, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.98 / 5 (147 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14