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Synopsis
“Islands have always been part of my life. I’ve always been happiest within the sight and smell of tidal salt water……Salt water must run in my veins. This book is about seventy-plus years of island experiences and memories…not souvenirs. …Let me tell you about some of the islands that have shaped my life.”—Lance LongSo begins this riveting memoir by Lance Long, author of the NOEL Trilogy, the apocalyptic adventure saga set in the Florida he knows and loves. Islands gives an intimate glimpse into the author’s life at the boundary where land meets salt water, from his childhood on the shores of Long Island, through career stints in Manhattan and the Merchant Marine Academy in Maine, to his years as a successful builder in St. Augustine, Florida, and TV personality, to his extensive travels to the South Pacific, Australia, the islands of the Caribbean and South America, and finally, life in the Florida Keys. Travel, exploring, boats, and cruising are lifelong passions. We step into the cockpit and grab the gunwales as the author learns seamanship the hard way, eventually graduating to bigger and bigger yachts. Some of his experiences are truly harrowing—others are deeply humorous. As his family grows, they travel with him around the world, as he seeks new islands, knowledge, and adventure, eventually ending up back home in Florida. Islands is an engrossing story of one man’s love not just of the sea, but of boats, exploration, islands, beaches, dogs, travel, and arcane knowledge.
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À propos de l'auteur
Author Lance Long knows how mechanical things work and can fix almost anything. With a PhD in English, he taught at the college level and the Merchant Marine Academy, but left academia, becoming a licensed general contractor, real estate and mortgage broker, and land developer. Following the real estate collapse in the Savings & Loan crisis of 1989, he wrote the insider disclosure book that grew into a television infomercial and more than 3,000 international seminars and workshops. Lance has written industry studies on alternative fuels, solar energy, aquaculture, electric vehicles, and wastewater bio-mitigation, and as a public speaker, has promoted federal government programs against bioterrorism in Canada and Mexico. After 9/11 he began fitting-out out a large live-aboard diesel trawler. Well versed in survival techniques, having cruised the world, he can navigate anywhere and live off sea and land. He published Boca Chita, Part 1 of the NOEL Trilogy, in 2012, Part II, Calusa Coast in 2014, and Banking on Success, a novel exposing the practices of the seminar business, and Part III of the Trilogy, First Coast, in 2015. He lives aboard, cruising the Florida coast, and is currently working on several novels, a TV pilot, and a screenplay.
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Islands
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 478 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.08 inches. In Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur zk0988265680
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Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis
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