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Off in a Boat
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780941533980
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
Published: Apr 21 1998
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his brother John, he set off on a three-month voyage around Inner Hebrides.
The boat had outlived its first youth, and its engine was somewhat cranky; she went tolerably under sail. These are not high recommendations, but for Gunn, and at times his fellow voyagers, the vessel was an argosy of freedom, of adventure and misadventure-for they were fairly inexperienced sailors, and the waters of the region are by no means placid.
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