During their two-and-a-half-year circumnavigation aboard the sloop
Maverick, Tony Johnson and Terry Shrode survived a number of
harrowing engagements with the forces of nature. In Tahiti, a
midnight gale caused Maverick to fetch up on a dangerous coral
reef. In Indonesia, faulty navigational charts, heavy winds and
high seas led the crew to run the boat aground. And thirty miles
from a safe landfall after a twenty-one day Atlantic crossing,
water in the bilge triggered the discovery that the hull had begun
to tear itself apart. Only a heroic effort by the skipper and first
mate kept them from sinking within sight of land. Along with tales
of adventure, the Captain's chronicle contains accounts of natural
wonders including orangutans in the wild, observed on a dreamlike
jungle excursion up the Kumai River in Borneo, and the nighttime
Arabian Sea glowing ghostly white from horizon to horizon, the
result of a rare bloom of phosphorescent plankton. Woven through
the journal are revealing and sometimes surreal encounters with a
host of fascinating characters including native guides, fellow
cruisers, and would-be pirates. These cross-cultural experiences
assume added poignancy in the period following the World Trade
Center attack, when, despite the warnings of family and friends,
Tony and Terry decide to carry on with their voyage through the
heart of the Islamic world and fly the American flag. Sections on
Odysseus, Drake, Columbus, Plato, Socrates, bullfighting in Spain,
Mediterranean geology, and Junior Walker and the All-Stars ensure
that the book will satisfy the reader's wanderlust for cultural and
intellectual, as well as nautical, adventure.
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