Home Is Where the Boat Is (Signed Copy)

Thomas, Emy; Emy Thomas

ISBN 10: 0944428207 / ISBN 13: 9780944428207

Published by Cruising Guide Pubns, Dunedin, Florida, U.S.A., 1993

About this Item

Softcover with minor creases along the spine thus; a "read-a-few-times" look & feel. This copy is Signed on the title page in blue ink with absolutely no further inscription, by the author. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.

Seller Inventory # 22014626

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Home Is Where the Boat Is (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Cruising Guide Pubns, Dunedin, Florida, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944428207
• ISBN 13: 9780944428207
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: NDJ
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel Essay
  • Adventure
  • Sailing

About this title

Synopsis

Home Is Where the Boat Is is and entertaining and informative report on the lifestyle of adventures who cruise the oceans in small sailboats. Written for sailors and laymen alike and for anyone who has ever dreamed of sailing off into the sunset, it is a lively and honest account of the pros and cons of cruising. Chapters include getting food and water, doing laundry, making a living, meeting the natives, surviving storms and sickness. The book is also a love story about the author, a journalist, and the typical "yachtie" with whom she spent 13 years sailing halfway around the world, visiting scores of tropical paradise.

About the Author

Emy Thomas grew up in Connecticut, attended excellent schools and was a journalist in New York City when she discovered the tropics. She moved to the Caribbean, fell in love with a man who was sailing around the world and embarked on along, idyllic cruise. For 13 years they sailed the Caribbean and Pacific, and home was where the boat was. The author now lives and writes in St. Croixin the U.S. Virgin Islands. Home Is Where the Boat Is was her first book.¿She is also the author of Life in the Left Lane, about what it's like for expatriates to live in paradise.