The Water in Between a Journey at Sea
- List Price: $15.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 06/01/2001
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. The illusion that men are best tested by loneliness and adversity cracks in the force of the wind and the terrifying beat of the water, and "The Water in Between" becomes a hymn, not to running away, but to heading home.
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