Airborne

Description: 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.

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Book Title: Airborne : a Sentimental Journey

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.

Topic: Sailing, Personal Memoirs

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2023

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography

Item Weight: 15.9 Oz

Author: William F. Buckley Jr.

Item Length: 8.7 in

Item Width: 6.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback