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Title: The Blue Monk
Author: David Emery Bricker
Narrator: Russell Stamets
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-15
Publisher: Essential Absurdities Press
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In 1989 Dave Bricker set off across the Gulf Stream, in a small sailboat, with $30 in his pocket. His voyages aboard The Blue Monk, through the Bahamas and across the Atlantic to Gibraltar, are recounted in vivid prose. The Blue Monk is a journey of self-discovery set in a world of saturated colors, remarkable people, hazardous reefs, and transcendent beauty. Bricker chronicles a little-known fragment of Miami's history and encourages us all to embrace a world of power and magic that lies only a few steps off the sidewalk.
The audiobook version of The Blue Monk was narrated and produced by Russell Stamets at anchor aboard his own cruising sailboat.
The Blue Monk received a 2014 IPPY Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing.
Members Reviews:
To follow a nature
To step from the normal walk of life and stretch out to see where the unknown leads is admirable. It's not for everyone to do, but Dave's tales are an inspiration for anyone who long's for adventure; whether they desire the tangible act, or an intangible sense of it.
The characteristics of life under sail are almost indescribable unless you've lived it. Dave's tales brought me back to anchorages and passages with a breeze, and gale, in my face, and a taste of salt in the air - desire for the blue water returned. Aside from the comforts and amenities provided with a large bankroll, the only limit to life on a boat is land. Dave details the qualities, challenges, and character of that life with blunt, humorous, and vivid descriptions of adventure and encounters for all to enjoy.
We all have a tale to share, and I was captivated by The Blue Monk's.
A real page turner
For anyone who enjoys true life adventure stories, you'll enjoy this. Very well written. Couldn't put it down.
A great sailor's odyssey
Full disclosure hereâ Iâm Dave Brickerâs Dad, and Iâm recommending that you read âThe Blue Monk.â I, of course, got to watch Dave grow up, proceeding early towards goals his mom and I couldnât understand. Never a top student, he majored in Jazz in college, and became a first-rate guitarist. While his mom and I despaired of his career choices, such as they were, he gravitated to a community of what we saw as a motley collection of misfits in Miamiâs Coconut Grove anchorage, where, inexplicably, he found himself at home. I derisively called him a âstreet person of the sea,â as, to my eye, despite his expertise with computers, he floundered uselessly around, having somehow learned to survive on 30 cents a month out there on the water. I know better now.
The Blue Monk tells the story, which I read with page-turning fascination. It turns out that this kid of mine, now nearly 50, has meticulously and gorgeously recorded a marvelous odyssey of the sea. As you read, youâll alternately be drenched by spray, swept into realms of great joy and calm, occasionally run aground in strange places, sometimes made queasy by motions of the craft on choppy and uncertain seas, and will experience, through his powerful descriptive talent, the vastness of the dark, starry night skies, remote beaches, and the total range of things that can happen to an expertly piloted small sailboat alone out on an unforgiving ocean. The reader gets to meet many of the âcharactersâ in the Anchorage, who mostly turn out to be honorable and fascinating, if often non-conforming, folks.
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Title: The Blue Monk
Author: David Emery Bricker
Narrator: Russell Stamets
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-15
Publisher: Essential Absurdities Press
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
In 1989 Dave Bricker set off across the Gulf Stream, in a small sailboat, with $30 in his pocket. His voyages aboard The Blue Monk, through the Bahamas and across the Atlantic to Gibraltar, are recounted in vivid prose. The Blue Monk is a journey of self-discovery set in a world of saturated colors, remarkable people, hazardous reefs, and transcendent beauty. Bricker chronicles a little-known fragment of Miami's history and encourages us all to embrace a world of power and magic that lies only a few steps off the sidewalk.
The audiobook version of The Blue Monk was narrated and produced by Russell Stamets at anchor aboard his own cruising sailboat.
The Blue Monk received a 2014 IPPY Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing.
Members Reviews:
To follow a nature
To step from the normal walk of life and stretch out to see where the unknown leads is admirable. It's not for everyone to do, but Dave's tales are an inspiration for anyone who long's for adventure; whether they desire the tangible act, or an intangible sense of it.
The characteristics of life under sail are almost indescribable unless you've lived it. Dave's tales brought me back to anchorages and passages with a breeze, and gale, in my face, and a taste of salt in the air - desire for the blue water returned. Aside from the comforts and amenities provided with a large bankroll, the only limit to life on a boat is land. Dave details the qualities, challenges, and character of that life with blunt, humorous, and vivid descriptions of adventure and encounters for all to enjoy.
We all have a tale to share, and I was captivated by The Blue Monk's.
A real page turner
For anyone who enjoys true life adventure stories, you'll enjoy this. Very well written. Couldn't put it down.
A great sailor's odyssey
Full disclosure hereâ Iâm Dave Brickerâs Dad, and Iâm recommending that you read âThe Blue Monk.â I, of course, got to watch Dave grow up, proceeding early towards goals his mom and I couldnât understand. Never a top student, he majored in Jazz in college, and became a first-rate guitarist. While his mom and I despaired of his career choices, such as they were, he gravitated to a community of what we saw as a motley collection of misfits in Miamiâs Coconut Grove anchorage, where, inexplicably, he found himself at home. I derisively called him a âstreet person of the sea,â as, to my eye, despite his expertise with computers, he floundered uselessly around, having somehow learned to survive on 30 cents a month out there on the water. I know better now.
The Blue Monk tells the story, which I read with page-turning fascination. It turns out that this kid of mine, now nearly 50, has meticulously and gorgeously recorded a marvelous odyssey of the sea. As you read, youâll alternately be drenched by spray, swept into realms of great joy and calm, occasionally run aground in strange places, sometimes made queasy by motions of the craft on choppy and uncertain seas, and will experience, through his powerful descriptive talent, the vastness of the dark, starry night skies, remote beaches, and the total range of things that can happen to an expertly piloted small sailboat alone out on an unforgiving ocean. The reader gets to meet many of the âcharactersâ in the Anchorage, who mostly turn out to be honorable and fascinating, if often non-conforming, folks.