Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat

by Peter Nichols and Peter Nichols

Book Overview

New York Times best-selling author Peter Nichols chronicles his and his wife's voyage aboard a wooden sailboat from the Caribbean to England--where his marriage foundered--and his trip back alone,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670871796
• ISBN13: 9780670871797
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A good sailing or break-up book

Peter Nichols book interweaves two stories quite well- his emotions as his marriage declines, and the story of trying to get a wooden boat across the Atlantic. Both stories are told in a very honest manner, reminding the reader that even the best sailors and partners can hit troubled waters. The sailing lore is impressive, and will give a day-sailor a new respect for long distance sailing.

Moving, Accomplished

As a memoir of love and loss, Peter Nichols' book is as moving and accomplished as any I've read, including such recognized classics as Siegfried Sassoon's "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer." I highly recommend it for the sailor and landlubber alike.

Stunning, Inpiring, and Moving

I stayed awake until 3 AM (on a work night) finishing this book, then lay awake until dawn staring at the ceiling thinking about life, love, loss, and courage. One of a handful of books that have moved me this deeply in my 40 years.

I spent my time well--wished I could have prolonged the trip

A student of film who once dreamed of the ocean, I only occasionally find the solution to cut the invisible tether to the tele. Nichols's cameo on CNN sparked my curiosity, and I sought Sea Change the next day. Have you ever enjoyed an escape experience which takes you further from fantasy than toward it? Although Nichols may take us off the ground, our journey is still largely at sea level, and, for a while, below even that. His experience may read matter-of-factly in the style of a captain's log at times, yet few will be able avoid emotional ties to the sea, Toad, and J. for all Nichols's authenticity. His travelogue carries a burden of modesty, but the reader knows each time he or she picks the book up that it drips of worth. This one will sit next to my Sobel.

Sea Change-A book that spoke to me, calling me to the sea.

I wandered into a book store to find Peter Nichols there for a book signing, he spoke of his journey, his life before and after setting sail, he read from his book and I was glad I had the chance to meet him. I found the book riveting at times and a comfortable cruise at other times. I recomend it not only to someone who has an interest in the sea (I never did before this book) but to anyone whoever loved or hopes to love for I found it as much of a love story as a journal of the wooden ship of days goneby, now crossing the ocean. Get and read this book