If you are following my Admiral’s Angle columns here on Women and Cruising and if you love books, you will want to catch #42 – My Bookshelf, A Mental Voyage.
This is Part One of three-part series on books aboard. Part Two will be about Cruising Sagas recommended by the Admirals, and Part Three will include our recommendations for your Reference Shelf.
What’s really great about the way these columns are/will be posted on Women and Cruising is that all the titles are linked directly to Amazon! Wow, I wish it had been that easy to find these books in the first place!
The Admirals, of course, recommended more books than I could fit into the three columns, so we will add those, too. If you have some titles you’d like to recommend, send them to us and we’ll add them to the list!
We’ve just posted Admiral’s Angle column #41 to the Women and Cruising site, Taking Passions Cruising:
“A land lubber might be forgiven for thinking that when we commit to the cruising life our main and overriding passion is for sailing.
Very often this is true, of course, but we are not one-dimensional creatures. We all have other interests, other passions — some long-standing and others we’ve never had time for before. Some will be the reason we go cruising in the first place, while others will be new discoveries. Many will fit easily with the cruising life-style; but others may take a little adaptive thinking.
‘Twas the week before Christmas, and we cruisers are getting in the spirit of the season. This year we have been enjoying the Christmas season in the Abacos.
We attended the 11th annual Lighting of the Tree on Green Turtle Cay. The Christmas carols were the best part. Choirs from each of the island’s five churches sang, as well as kids from Tiny Turtles Pre-School. The island was decked in Christmas lights, a Nativity scene was set up at the end of a dock, and as we peeked in doors we could see Junkanoo costumes being assembled.
I just got news today that you can now read the Caribbean Compass FREE online every month.
If you’ve cruised the Caribbean, you certainly know about the Caribbean Compass. It’s a free waterfront news magazine, started by former cruiser Sally Erdle. Sally and her husband Tom circumnavigated from 1989-1994 aboard their Rhodes 41 sloop So Long. In 1995 they settled in Bequia and started the Caribbean Compass.
… That’s the subtitle of Janna Cawrse Esarey’s new book The Motion of the Ocean, that we mentioned a while back on the blog. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (though I like her subtitle) and such lines as:
“Choosing a mate is like picking a house paint from one of those tiny color squares … You never know how it will look across a large expanse, or how it will change in a different light.”
Gwen Hamlin, however IS reading it now, and she is really enjoying the book and Janna’s perspective. She has promised to write a review for Women and Cruising when she finishes.
So for fun, here’s Janna’s You Tube video book trailer for the book. Enjoy!
Did you know that you can read all 36 (and counting!) columns of Admiral’s Angleon the Women and Cruising site?
Gwen Hamlin has been writing this column monthly for Latitudes and Attitudesmagazine since September of 2006. Gwen has a group of women cruisers (Admirals) that she draws upon to discuss all sorts of topics that interest women cruisers. All past columns of Admiral’s Angle are now here on the Women and Cruising website, and they are searchable.
Has anyone read this new hot-off-the-press book by Janna Cawrse Esarey? She seems to have a great sense of humor – and it’s certainly a “Woman and Cruising” type book!
Janna just sent Gwen Hamlin an email announcing her book and we both went to check out:
If you are following my Admiral’s Angle columns here on Women and Cruising and if you love books, you will want to catch #42 – My Bookshelf, A Mental Voyage.
, that we mentioned a while back on the blog. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (though I like her subtitle) and such lines as:
