{"product_id":"sailing-alone","title":"Sailing Alone","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat compels a person to set out to sea? A solo sailor explores the exhilarating and frightening world of the wide ocean\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is an adventure at odds with our normal, sociable lives, carried out floating on a medium wholly inimical to our existence. But the deep ocean is also a remarkable place on which to think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard King's enormously engaging and curious new book is about the debt we owe to solo sailors: women and men, young and old, who have set out alone. Spending weeks and months alone, slowly, quietly and close to the ocean surface is to create the world's largest laboratory: an endlessly changing, capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars and myriad sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book for anyone who is fascinated by sailing, solitude and the vast seas that cover so much of our planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eRichard J. King (Author)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor and illustrator Richard J. King wrote Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick, lauded in Science, Nature, and American Scholar. He also wrote Lobster, which was acclaimed by the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History, which was short-listed for the ASLE Creative Book Award and rated as one of the top five science books of the year by Library Journal. King co-edits the \"Searchable Sea Literature\" website, has published widely on maritime topics in scholarly and popular magazines, and he writes and illustrates a regular column on marine environmental history for Sea History magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46210848456861,"sku":"9781802063097","price":89.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/9781802063097_mphbooks_SailingAlone.jpg?v=1733727109","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/sailing-alone","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}