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For most people, coming of age and findings one's place in the world is a fairly tame passage. You leave high school and either continue with an academic or technical education or make that leap into adulthood with a first full-time job close to home. However, in postwar England there was another option. Max wood left an abusive and trouble household at age 16 to sign on as an apprentice aboard one of the last of the cargo sailing ships. He recounts his coming of age adventure in Sailing Tall: Around the World on the Square-rigged Passat, a memoir of the journey that led to his life's work as a mariner for the next 46 years. Wood writes is book in an easy, approachable style, almost as if the reader is sitting across from him while he talks of his memories of that early life. Some of the details are very intimate, such as those recounting the author's sexual exploits at a variety of ports around the world. But mostly his tale serves as a reminder that sailing a tall ship isn't anything like sailing a yacht. As Wood says, "The reality of life aboard these old vessels was far removed from the romantic image conveyed by most novels and films. It was grueling at times." Targeting a wid

Author

Wood, Max

Publisher

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780954275020

Subjects

Anthropology, Travel, History