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The Blue Monk (Hardcover)
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The Blue Monk (Hardcover)
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In 1983, when I was 18-years old, I encountered a community of
eccentric sailors who lived in a secret anchorage on the far side
of the spoil islands a quarter-mile from Miami City Hall. What I
found there inspired me and challenged me to expand my
perspectives. Though the Dinner Key Anchorage was often dismissed
as a community of "derelicts, bums, winos and thieves," I found
instead a group of articulate, capable, innovative, educated, and
highly skilled people who took me in and literally 'taught me the
ropes.' Many of them traveled the world, depending on little but
good fortune and determination. At 23, while working on a jazz
guitar degree, I bought an old 26-foot sailboat and named her The
Blue Monk after the tune by pianist, Thelonious Monk. Six months
after graduating, I took off with $30 in my pocket for a series of
adventures that took me through the Bahamas and eventually across
the Atlantic to Gibraltar. On the surface, The Blue Monk is a
memoir that recounts how I came to love sailing, joined a unique
community of misunderstood people, and sailed away to enjoy a life
of adventure. The book also provides an account of a special slice
of Miami history that would otherwise remain unrecorded. But The
Blue Monk is not really about me; who wants to read a book by an
author who can write about himself for hundreds of pages? The Blue
Monk is about something much larger; I am but the narrator. My
experiences sailing alone on a small boat were beautiful and
sometimes terrifying. Often, they were an odd combination of both.
The Blue Monk tells of an encounter with a remarkable world that
lies just beyond the horizon and deep within each of us. The Blue
Monk is rich life experience translated into prose, a vehicle that
transports the reader there and then."
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