The Voyage of the Northern Magic: A Family Odyssey

✍ Scribed by Stuemer, Diane

• Book ID: 110493651
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 6 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781551995229

✦ Synopsis

Ever dream of selling up and running away to sea? Diane Stuemer and her husband, Herbert, were once a typical suburban couple entering middle age, with a comfortable home and three boys under twelve. A year later they had sold their business, rented out their house, and were setting out to circumnavigate the globe in a 40-year-old yacht. Their entire sailing experience consisted of six afternoons on the Ottawa River.

Over the next four years, squeezed into quarters no bigger than the Stuemers' old bedroom, the family of five would become seasoned mariners. They would battle deadly storms at sea and evade real-life pirates. Dodge waterspouts and lightning strikes and witness the bombing of the USS Cole. See the staggering beauty of Borneo's rainforest, and its destruction from logging. Be arrested at gunpoint and entertained like visiting royalty. In all, they would visit 34 countries and cover 35,000 nautical miles.

Almost everywhere they went, the family...