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- catalog abstract "In 1992, Joe Coomer bought a fine old boat: a sixty-year-old motorsailer, with a noble bow and only a hint of age. With his wife and their families gathered alongside him, he spent the next four years learning to master the boat he called Yonder. In Sailing in a Spoonful of Water, Coomer writes of reviving the vintage craft with an amateur sailor's infectious delight and a novelist's keenness of observation. Yet this lyrical and moving memoir is more than just a book. About boating: As he gains his footing aboard Yonder, Coomer's narrative reflects back on signal events in his life - events that have drawn him, again and again, to river or lake or ocean. Gazing into the water, Coomer perceives the reflections of his wife and their parents and grandparents, drawn always to the water along with him. And, in prose that mingles humor, generosity, and pure, awed delight, he finds in them his own safest harbor. A book that will appeal to. Readers of writers as diverse as Tracy Kidder and E. Annie Proulx, Sailing in a Spoonful of Water is a work of rare warmth and wonder.".
- catalog contributor b10314857.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "About boating: As he gains his footing aboard Yonder, Coomer's narrative reflects back on signal events in his life - events that have drawn him, again and again, to river or lake or ocean. Gazing into the water, Coomer perceives the reflections of his wife and their parents and grandparents, drawn always to the water along with him. And, in prose that mingles humor, generosity, and pure, awed delight, he finds in them his own safest harbor. A book that will appeal to.".
- catalog description "In 1992, Joe Coomer bought a fine old boat: a sixty-year-old motorsailer, with a noble bow and only a hint of age. With his wife and their families gathered alongside him, he spent the next four years learning to master the boat he called Yonder. In Sailing in a Spoonful of Water, Coomer writes of reviving the vintage craft with an amateur sailor's infectious delight and a novelist's keenness of observation. Yet this lyrical and moving memoir is more than just a book.".
- catalog description "Readers of writers as diverse as Tracy Kidder and E. Annie Proulx, Sailing in a Spoonful of Water is a work of rare warmth and wonder.".
- catalog extent "255 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0312156464".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Picador,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "797.1/24/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Coomer, Joe.".
- catalog subject "GV810.92.C66 A3 1997".
- catalog subject "Sailors United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Wooden boats.".
- catalog title "Sailing in a spoonful of water / Joe Coomer.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".