| Description |
xv, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"First published in the United States of America by Mill Hill Press 1999." -- Title page verso. |
| Contents |
A pool in the stream. The race -- Up a creek -- In a bog -- The green gush -- Love's handiwork -- Time travel -- The suit -- Steering without a rudder -- Death roll: Coskata -- In the cocktail glass -- Strolling through history -- The jibing hamster -- Coastal retreat -- Dancing with seals -- This is only a test. Details -- A different world -- Into the maelstrom -- Roll call -- Over early -- What ifs. The swift monster -- Oedipal sailing -- The prop -- Pre-cut -- Power in the pond -- The cut -- Down the river. Reassembling childhood -- Logistics -- Rollin' -- The deluge -- Sail to the sea. Showtime -- In limbo -- Taking measure -- Doppelganger -- The ultimate captain's house -- Day one -- Day two -- Day three -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living with his family on Nantucket, feeling stranded and longing for that thrill of victory he once felt after winning a national sailing championship in his youth. Was it a midlife crisis? It was certainly a watershed for the journalist-turned-stay-at-home dad, who impulsively decided to throw his hat into the ring, or water, again. With the bemused approval of his wife and children, Philbrick used the off-season on the island as his solitary training ground, sailing his tiny Sunfish to its remotest corners, experiencing the haunting beauty of its tidal creeks, inlets, and wave-battered sandbars. On ponds, bays, rivers, and finally at the championship on a lake in the heartland of America, he sailed through storms and memories, racing for the prize, but finding something unexpected about himself instead." -- Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Philbrick, Nathaniel -- Biography.
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Philbrick, Nathaniel. (OCoLC)fst00190297
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Sailors -- Biography.
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Sunfish (Sailboats)
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Sailboat racing.
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Sailboat racing. (OCoLC)fst01103489
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Sailors. (OCoLC)fst01103543
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Philbrick, Nathaniel, author. Second wind New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Random House LLC, 2018 9780525503835 (DLC) 2017055169 |
| ISBN |
9780143132097 (paperback) |
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0143132091 (paperback) |
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9780525503835 (ebook) |
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