We Ran Away to Sea: A Memoir and Letters - Couverture souple

Kedl, George Kent; Kedl, Pamela Thompson

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798987009703

Editeur : Jacana Press, 2023

Synopsis

**Awards:** New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist, 2024; Royal Dragonfly First Place in Letters, Diaries, and Journals, 2024; Global Book Awards Silver Medalist in Biography and Memoir, 2024; Wishing Well Red Ribbon, 2025; Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist for Memoir, 2025.

More than a sailing memoir, We Ran Away to Sea is an intimate exploration of how two strong, loving people pursue meaning — and how, over time, they come to understand each other more fully.

They had built a life many would admire — a strong marriage, two children, creative work they loved, and a restored Victorian home in a Midwestern college town.

Yet, Kent was dissatisfied. Was this all there was to life? Pam, too, wanted a wider world — for herself and for their children — beyond the familiar rhythms of small-town life. So they did what most people only talk about: they walked away and set sail. They returned after a year, believing the dream fulfilled. But some longings do not quiet easily. A decade later, they tried again.

Told in two distinct voices through memoir and letters, We Ran Away to Sea is a story of courage, compromise, and enduring love — a reminder that daring to seek a different way of living may not lead where you expect, but it can deepen how you understand home, partnership, and yourself.

For anyone who has ever wondered whether it’s too late — or too risky — to begin again.


**Places Traveled:**

- England
- Spain
- Portugal
- Canary Islands
- Caribbean
- Mexico
- Belize
- Puerto Rico
- Haiti
-Jamaica
-Trinidad
- Venezuela
- Colombia
- Central America
- The Virgin Islands (U.S. and British)
- Florida
- The Great Lakes
- Trent-Severn Waterway
- Erie Canal
- Hudson River
- Intracoastal Waterway

This book is enriched with maps, a glossary, photos, diagrams, itinerary, and a bibliography.
**Details:*
* - **Pages:** 352
- **Format:** Paperback
- **Published:** July 1, 2023
- **Publisher:** Jacana Press
- **ISBN:** 9798987009703
- **Language:**

English Dare to dream and take the plunge into your own grand adventure!

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kent Kedl grew up enjoying the outdoors, competing in football and track, and trying to outdo his older brother Doug in their hometown of Sheridan, Wyoming. He quit school during his senior year at the University of Wyoming to serve in the Peace Corps in Colombia. Upon his return, he completed degrees in mathematics and philosophy, and enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Oregon. He taught philosophy at South Dakota State University in Brookings for more than twenty years, eventually leaving South Dakota (twice) to live full-time on a sailboat.

Pamela Kedl spent her life trying to resist other people's schedules and avoiding being a professional at anything. Her work ranged from the esoteric-a flutist, a potter, a photographer, and a transoceanic sailor-to the pragmatic: a welfare worker, an English teacher, a librarian's assistant, and a waitress. Pamela Kedl died of an auto-immune disease in June 2009 in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jacana Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798987009703
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 352
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