Everyone Said I Should Write a Book: The Travels and Adventure of a Sailor and Explorer - Softcover

White, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468032844 ISBN 13: 9781468032840

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

TRUE TALES OF A MODERN ADVENTURER Pirates, parrots, hurricanes and Himalayas. Stalked by jaguars in the jungle of Guatemala! Will they survive pirates off Costa Rica? How does he escape war in Kashmir? "Jon’s stories are wonderful. I would liken them to Jack Kerouac’s, in that his stories want me to seek adventure, damn the danger!” wrote one reviewer. Hanging out with Jim Morrison, surviving a huge tornado at sea, saving the life of a lone fisherman helpless in a storm... Whether you are a landlubber or sailor, an armchair adventurer or world traveler, you’ll understand why everyone said he should write a book...

About this title

From the Author

This, my first book was written at the request of friends and family for many years, hence the title! I really expected to sell maybe fifty copies total. But it gained traction on its own and has sold many times that since it was published in February 2012.
I enjoyed the writing experience, the words flowed into sentences, then paragraphs, then complete stories. I would find myself at four in the morning, quietly working on my laptop, while my wife slept through the night.
Using ship logs, old notes and emails, I re-lived the tales and adventures and apparently my writing style was embraced by people all over the world. I received emails from Australia, Norway, Argentina, even Afghanistan asking for a sequel. That is now available...

From the Back Cover

           You have one life; this is not a rehearsal. Live it fully, every day...

As I have created the tapestry of my life, as I have sailed the oceans, explored far-away places, met unusual people, I have often written about my adventures and shared them with friends and family. Over the years, many have asked when I would gather some of these stories into a book to share with everyone.

Between these covers you will vicariously be confronted by pirates at sea, be alone and dying in the Himalaya mountains, come face-to-face with a Ku Klux Klan member on a small island in the middle of Georgia. You'll spend a little time with Jim Morrison and be entertained by Barnacle Bill, the parrot. You will travel to exotic places and meet interesting and diverse people.

And in these adventures you may discover the belief that is still enabling me to live a varied and atypical life - you can do whatever you choose to do, if you believe that you can...

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1468032844
• ISBN 13: 9781468032840
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 172