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"A stint in the army and a broken heart lead Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island, where he stands contemplating the romance of the sea and his heartfelt desire to get away. By the end of the day, he finds himself the neophyte owner of a sailboat called the Sea Mouse. He also has a plan: to sail to Tahiti and back, and burn away his failings in hard miles at sea.".
"First he recruits a traveling companion, another brokenhearted guy who at least knows how to sail. They set out like the Two Stooges - Seasick and Slapstick. Days without wind are days to kick back on the deck with a beer and a man-versus-nature adventure book that valorizes their journey into an essential quest for manhood. But eventually the voyage begins to take on a sharper edge.
On a relentless beat across the South Pacific, they run across one solitary male sailor after another on the lam, not heroes but refugees. Both the literature and the reality of masculine adventure start to pall, and Patterson begins to long for home." "But to get there he faces the toughest of trials, single-handedly sailing the Sea Mouse across the North Pacific and through a four-day gale, conscious that no one on earth knows where he is or that he might die."--BOOK JACKET.
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Description and travel, Journeys, Sailing, Sea Mouse (Sailboat), Travel, Voyages and travels, Voyages, Descriptions et voyages, Sea Mouse (Voilier), Navigation à voile, New York Times reviewed, Pacific ocean, Sailboats, Pacific area, description and travelPlaces
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The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea
June 2001, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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The Water in Between
August 2000, Doubleday Doubleday
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The water in between: a journey at sea
2000, Vintage Canada
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The water in between: a journey at sea
2000, Nan A. Talese
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The water in between: a journey at sea
1999, Random House Canada
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