Patricia Morgan

Aweigh of Life

A Memoir and Travel Tales of Seven Years in the South Pacific

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Produktbeschreibung

Aweigh of Life is a sweeping memoir of the author's unique experiences of sailing and living in the South Pacific in the 1970s. From Hawai'i to the Marquesas to Fiji to New Zealand to Papua New Guinea and the rich tapestry of places in between, these sailing adventures...replete with gales and hurricanes and turquoise lagoons...flood the movie screen of the reader's mind. Cultural, historical, and geographical insights are interlaced with evocative descriptions of the beauty, generosity, and lifestyle of the island peoples of Oceania. Experience the dynamics of being on a small sailboat for days and weeks on end. Through a vivid recounting of island life, the author's journey becomes our own. Her authentic prose reveals the complex dynamics of being on a small sailboat for weeks on end and the pure wonder of this tropic region prior to the destructive effects of mass tourism. In the second part of the book the author describes going "bush" in New Zealand, building a thatched hut and subsistence farming for 18 months before returning to the sea. After sailing northward to New Caledonia and on to Australia, now with a partner, she takes the reader with her to a remote island off Papua New Guinea where her first child was born amongst grass-skirted indigenous peoples before setting sail again with a 6-week-old infant. Previous published in 2019 under the pen name of E.D. Snow, these seven years of adventurous tales are woven into an intimate memoir, told with grace and bravery, exploring the emotional and metaphysical dimensions of the choices she made that left her aweigh of life for many years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9798991793810
• Artikelnr.: 73348022

Autorenporträt

Patricia Morgan was born in 1949. After a brief flirtation with university, she discovered the sailor's life, the experiences of which are captured in this memoir. Those seven memorable years in the South Pacific ended with a reluctant relocation to the Pacific Northwest in 1978, where she has spent the ensuing 40-plus years transcribing court trials, a line of work that afforded her freedom from the confines of an eight-to-five job or needing to live in one place, thus allowing her to be home to raise her four children. Today she meditates, writes, reads, and transcribes court trials part time. Continuing to embrace the minimalist lifestyle sought while sailing, she remains aweigh of life, having no permanent address for long. Most recently, after four years of calling a beloved 27-foot box van home, the winds shifted, and as of this printing, she's temporarily eschewed her nomadic tendencies to settle in a community dwelling tucked into a rural pocket of the Scenic Columbia Gorge in Washington.