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Ready to come about : a memoir
- Title
- Ready to come about : a memoir / Sue Williams.
- Author
- Williams, Sue, 1956 October 26-
- Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Dundurn, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-5291 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 364 pages : illustration; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Three hundred nautical miles from shore, I'm cold and sick and afraid. I pray for reprieve. I long for solid ground. And I can't help but ask myself, What the hell was I thinking? When Sue Williams set sail for the North Atlantic, it wasn't a mid-life crisis. She had no affinity for the sea. And she didn't have an adventure-seeking bone in her body. In the wake of a perfect storm of personal events, it suddenly became clear: her sons were adults now; they needed freedom to figure things out for themselves; she had to get out of their way. And it was now or never for her husband, David, to realize his dream to cross an ocean, so she'd go too. Ready to Come About is the story of a mother's improbable adventure on the high seas and her profound journey within, through which she grew to believe that there is no gift more precious than the liberty to chart one's own course, and that risk is a good thing ... sometimes, at least."--
- Subject
- Williams, Sue, 1956 October 26- > Travel > North Atlantic Ocean
- Sailors > Canada > Biography
- Adventure and adventurers > Canada > Biography
- Transatlantic voyages
- Boats and boating > North Atlantic Ocean
- Adventure and adventurers
- Boats and boating
- Sailors
- Travel
- North Atlantic Ocean > Description and travel
- Canada
- North Atlantic Ocean
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5291
- ISBN
- 9781459743908
- 1459743903
- OCLC
- 1054378365
- Author
- Williams, Sue, 1956 October 26- author.
- Title
- Ready to come about : a memoir / Sue Williams.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Dundurn, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Other Form:
- Williams, Sue, 1956 October 26- Ready to come about. Toronto: Dundurn, 2019 1459743911 9781459743915 (OCoLC)1080937132
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5291