If you’ve enjoyed Beth A. Leonard’s articles, then
you’ll love her new book, Blue Horizons.
Blue Horizons chronicles seven years of high latitude voyaging aboard Hawk
Beth's "Blue Horizons" has won the Outdoor Literature category of the 2007 National Outdoor Book Awards. It is the first time a sailing book has won the Literature prize. The announcement is posted on the NOBA website: http://www.noba-web.org/books07.htm
“She puts us right there in the cockpit and on the wharf of a new destination, showing us a world in which ‘perfection’ is not bland, easy, escapist comfort in a crowded tropical harbor but a more insecure yet more rewarding existence of constant challenge – cold waters, rocky coves, demanding seamanship, and the evolution of two sailors trying to manage a boat and also their own relationship.”
– John Rousmaniere, author of The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
“Let Beth Leonard inspire you to sail around the world, explore the high latitudes, or discover your own capacity for adventure. Each nugget in this ‘dream becomes reality’ series of revelations is worth a thousand pictures. ”
– Gary Jobson, ESPN sailing commentator and America’s Cup Hall of Famer
“I almost never read aloud but found myself over and over compelled to say ‘Listen to this.’ It is that wise, that perceptive, that wonderful.”
– Don Casey, author of This Old Boat
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Blue Horizons
I have long since left behind the sterile ruled lines and hard right angles of the human-built, earth-bound, two-dimensional world. I no longer glimpse the moon as a disembodied face through a pane of glass or notice the wind and rain only on the short dash to the car. I have rejected the rigid certainty of the daily commute, the tyranny of the date book, the urgent insistence of the morning alarm. I have accepted the uncertainty of a storm at sea, the tyranny of the contrary wind, the urgent insistence of breaking water on a shoal.