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A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea
Viking Adult
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 067002192X
EAN: 9780670021925
Hardcover
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The bestselling author's sequel to The Hungry Ocean--a fast-
paced account of her return to swordfishing Linda Greenlaw hadn't been bluewater fishing for ten years-
not since the events chronicled in the books The Perfect
Storm and The Hungry Ocean-but when her lobster traps
aren't paying off, her truck is on its last gasp, and the
bills are piling up, she decides to take a friend up on his
offer and captain a boat for a season of swordfishing. A
decade older, and with family responsibilities, she's a
different person heading out to sea, but any reluctance is
quickly tempered by the magnetic lure of adventure. And the
adventures begin almost immediately: The ship turns out to
be rusty and ancient, and even with a crew of four Greenlaw
is faced with technical challenges. There are the expected
complexities of longline fishing and the nuances of reading
the weather. Her greatest challenge, however, comes when
the boat's lines inadvertently drift into Canadian waters
and Greenlaw is thrown in jail. Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey,
Greenlaw tells a story about human nature and the nature
around us, about learning what can be controlled and when
to let fate step in. Seaworthy is a compelling narrative
about a person setting her own terms and finding her true
self between land and water.
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