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The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water : How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea

by Mary South

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At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn''t help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months ... Read more

At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn''t help feeling that she was missing something intangible but essential. So she decided to go looking for it . . . at sea. Six months later she had quit her job, sold the house, and was living aboard a forty-foot, thirty-ton steel trawler she rechristened Bossanova. Despite her total lack of experience, South set out on her maiden voyage—a fifteen-hundred-mile odyssey from Florida to Maine—with her one-man, two-dog crew. But what began as the fulfillment of an idle wish became a crash course in navigating the complicated byways of the self.

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File size8x5.74x0.58inches
Print pages211
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date June 1, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780060747039
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Mary South is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University, where she was a chosen for a Henfield scholarship. For many years, she has worked with Diane ...

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