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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | “World Voyagers” the true story of a Veterinarian, a Renaissance man and Stewart the cat, is unlike all other travel narratives. This full-bodied and humorous book, about building a boat and sailing it on a three-year global circumnavigation, is intended for not only sailors and animal lovers—but all armchair adventurers. The e-book version of “World Voyagers” brings all of the adventures of Phil, Amy and Stew to small hand-held devices. Embark on a hunt for crocodiles, while waiting for the dentist. Frolic naked in a Polynesian ceremonial mare, while waiting in line at the post office. Read, eat and weep as you learn about love, loss and goats head soup, all in the palm of your hand, anytime, anywhere. Includes 21 illustrations. The print version (432 pages) has over thirty pages of color photos and maps, and over one hundred black and white photos, original cartoons, recipes and poems, the look and feel of this quirky tome, encased in a padded binding, further enlivens this vicarious voyaging | | | |
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World Voyagers: Two sailors and a pussycat go to sea Feb 24, 2008
_World Voyagers_ is a thoroughgoing delight.
This handsome, hard-cover book (it even has a blue ribbon built in for keeping your place) tells how Amy P. Wood, her husband Philip J. Shelton and their cat Stewart P. Wood built a barn in their back yard in Maine, built therein a solid sailing ship, and sailed the thing around the world. They brought it home again to Maine, where they sold it. Now Phil is talking about building a bush/seaplane to fly in the Far North. (It seems the guy can do anything technical.) If there's a book about it, I want to read that one too.
_Voyagers_ is rich in dialog, but in some of the best parts Amy is describing place and people they have encountered along the way. The book does seem to be in Amy's voice, though both people and even the cat are credited as authors.
It is rich in photographs, virtually all of which are too small. However, making them larger would have made the book either unreasonably large or unreasonably expensive, or both. In one of the photos, Phil is nude (as he apparently often was) and we see his bare bum. No such pix of Amy, though. Pity.
Being confined on a boat for months with just one other person sounds like it could be a trial. Amy and Phil took alternate days as captain, and seem to have managed the trip without bloodshed or even serious argument, mainly by showing kindness, consideration, generosity and respect for each other.
Endpapers show rough maps of the voyage, and there's a glossary explaining most of the salty terminology likely to be inevitable in such a book.
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Enjoyable,Entertaining&Enlightening Jan 28, 2008
We echo the many accolades given to the "World Voyagers". It's a book that you can't put down or find something on every page to share with anyone within hailing distance. We espcially enjoyed Amy's analogies.
This past fall we so appreciated having Phil and Amy as our guests to relate this adventure to the Pen Bay Alumni Chapter of the Maine Maritime Academy. Attending alumni represented nearly 5 hundred man years of maritime experience as naval officers,merchant ship captains,mates,pilots, and engineers. To say that we were intrigued and impressed with the combined talents and courage of this couple would be a huge understatement!!!
Lou and Jo Violette
Spruce Head, Maine
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AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY Nov 25, 2007
THE STORY OF AMY AND PHIL'S JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD IN THE BOAT THEY BUILT IN GEORGETOWN, MAINE IS MORE THAN SIMPLY AMAZING. I COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN, READING STRAIGHT THROUGH FOR TWO AND HALF DAYS. THE SHEER AMOUNT OF COURAGE AND SKILL AND HUMOR NEEDED TO TRAVEL TOGETHER FOR THREE YEARS, TO BE VULNERABLE IN THE OPEN OCEAN AND THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES VISITED TAKES A KIND OF AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY SORELY LACKING IN THE CULTURE OF TODAY THAT DICTATES DO EVERYTHING QUICKLY AND WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES. THE CONSEQUENCES OF A POOR DECISION ON THE HIGH SEAS OR VISITING A HOSTILE COUNTRY COULD BE LOSS OF LIFE. THIS BOOK SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO GIVE THEM A TRUE PORTRAIT OF BRAVERY, CREATIVE ENDEAVORS AND HOW TO BE BE REAL IN A SOCIETY THAT HAS SLIPPED THE RAILS.
CRISTINA JORDAN
JONESBORO, MAINE
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World Voyagers...speak TRUTH Sep 28, 2007
First Off....Amy and Phil have produced a volume that is one of the most beautiful/handsome books that I own...and...I Have MANY!! I found myself handing my copy to the "book -lovers"and librarians(each of whom have ordered their own copy) in my life...just to observe their reactions...a superb effort....I am currently stepping the masts and finishing up a similar cruising vessel..38foot wooden Double ender..with plans/hopes to take her to New Zealand. This unvarnished contemporary account of two circumnavigators and their joys and travails while circling the globe..accompanied by many beautiful photos....is priceless for it's honesty and detail. As an indicator of this book "as an experience" they have included a Blue satin Place marker...integral to the binding...which leaves a feeling of being..."cared for"...by the authors as you accompany them from Georgetown , Maine around the world and home again. Sailors will recognize many familiar mental scenarios as they decide whether to continue from the galapagos....when "HOME" in Maine tries to call them back....how they deal with illness and/or seasickness...for themselves or their beloved FELINE crewmember... decide how to handle the "boat kids" in many anchorages...no holds are barred...no punches pulled... We watch and read how they made THEIR decisions...and are left with the opportunity to make our own decisions/mistakes!! when the time comes!!
WORLD VOYAGERS is authentic accounting of a Lifetime adventure....by a couple who have chosen to live their life TOGETHER, while recognizing that our contemporary lives are often fraught with emotional upheavals and "chapter changes"...family dilemmas and decisions that don't always "go as we might have planned". Congratulations to Amy and Phil on a job/book....WELL DONE!! Fare Forward World Voyagers!!
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more Iwalani treasure Jul 03, 2007
Amy and Philip and Stewart the cat's grand adventure deserved a magnificent, padded hardcover tome filled with great photographs and everything they left out of the website log. This is it. Only people who built their own boat and then sailed it around the world could tell a tale like this, then put it together in such a handsome package.
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