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

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Author: Mary South
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6

ISBN: 006074703X
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780060747039
ASIN: 006074703X

Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Condition: Sound Copy. Mild Reading Wear.

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
p 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#8212;a fifteen-hundred-mile odyssey from Florida to Maine#8212;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. /p

Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

The Cure for Anything is Salt Water December 23, 2008
I heard about this book from a friend, They really loved it. Me...not so much.

1 out of 5 stars

Praying to Poseidon February 15, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful

While I respect the author's courage to make the life change she did as I read the book I felt an undercurrent of sadness and depression about her. When I read about her praying to Poseidon rather than to almighty Godand all of the alcoholic drinking, I then understood why I was feeling this way. I put down this book and began to read something else that to me was more uplifting.br /Jane C. Kramer

4 out of 5 stars

Would Have Loved to Make the Actual Trip January 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I enjoyed Mary's story VERY much. I was surprised to learn she had been a book editor because I was distracted in the beginning chapters by many sentence fragments and run-on "sentences". I learned it was bad form, if not poor grammar to begin a sentence with the word "And". I was also confused at some points while trying to follow the story line: Mary skipped the family Thanksgiving for a warm weather trip South...but later in the story, she claims to have visited her aging grandmother in upstate New York over that same Thanksgiving? Maybe I'm reading too literally. I greatly admire her spirit of adventure and her courage in sharing her emotional life with us. I'm left wondering, though: what if Lars had invited her to sail to Europe? Would she have accepted that challenge/invitation?

4 out of 5 stars

Leave your politics onshore, Mary! October 13, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

This was a terrific book on many levels and while Ibr /would not hesitate to recommend it, parts offended me.br /Why was it necessary to contaminate its freshness withbr /your politics? Why the references to NPR and the usualbr /knee jerk reactions to Bush and the war on terrorism?br /I think it'd have been suffice to just reveal that youbr /are a liberal Democrat. No problem there but why datebr /this memoir with your preferences and, it appears, br /your PC prejudices? I really didn't need that to enjoy yourbr /seafaring midlife adventures. Take care of your doggies!

5 out of 5 stars

the cure for anything is salt water September 21, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Seabr /br /As a reader whose only experience with boats is a few crossings on the Staten Island Ferry, I still found myself hooked from the beginning of THE CURE FOR ANYTHING IS SALT WATER. Not only because it is a very funny book and a great story about leaving corporate life for the sea, but also because of the sharp reflections on the impermanent yet invaluable aspects of life and relationships.br /br /Helen Ward, Brooklyn, NY

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