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A Wild Call - One Man's Voyage in Pursuit of Freedom (Paperback)
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A Wild Call - One Man's Voyage in Pursuit of Freedom (Paperback)
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List price R372
Loot Price R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
You Save R30 (8%)
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Martyn Murray was finding modern life, with all its restrictions
and controls, suffocating. Following years of soul-searching, his
father's death triggered him into opening the old logbooks and
charts to retrace the sailing trips they had once shared together.
He determined to revisit those waters and bring home the freedom of
the seas. Falling in love with an old ketch in Ireland, he bought
and restored her enough to sail back to Scotland. Over the next two
summers he cruised Scotland's Western Isles, with one goal: to
reach St Kilda - the remotest part of the British Isles, 40 miles
from the Outer Hebrides. During his cruising he considered the
islanders and their sense of freedom - often restricted by absentee
landlords and officialdom. He riled against bureaucracy and
commercial enterprise restricting the yachtsman's ability to roam
free. For parts of his journey he was joined by the beguiling Kyla;
a rare, independent spirit who both excited and frustrated Martyn.
But much of Martyn's voyaging was undertaken alone, encountering a
variety of places, situations and characters along the way. He
attempted his long-awaited sail out to St Kilda through the teeth
of a storm, believing that achieving this feat would bring him the
freedom and clarity that he craved. What he came up against was far
more testing and turbulent than the tides and gales of the North
Atlantic. As he sailed back to the mainland things fell into place:
a sense of achievement in completing the arduous voyage alone, but
- most of all - an understanding of who he is, clarity on his
relationship with Kyla and a real sense of his own freedom.
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