AN INEXPLICABLE ATTRACTION. MY FIFTY YEARS OF OCEAN SAILING - Tecno-Libro

Sailing well into his eighties, Captain Eric Forsyth shows in his book, An inexplicable Attraction: My Fifty Years of Ocean Sailing, .that age need not be a barrier to an adventurous .retirement. His love of ocean sailing was ignited in 1964 when he crossed the Atlantic with his wife, Edith, .crewing aboard a friend s 46-foot boat. For more than fifty years, mostly aboard his sturdy cutter Fiona , Forsyth .has cruised the oceans of the world, making voyages that included two circumnavigations of the globe, cruises .through the Northwest Passage and to the Baltic, and several excursions to both the Arctic and Antarctic. His .stories will appeal to all sailors, whether active or armchair, and to travel buffs with a penchant for remote .places and their histories. On a more serious side, Forsyth has seen many countries that he visited over the decades change from languorous oligarchies to developing democracies with a thriving m