Airborne: A Sentimental Journey

Airborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends. The trip, for fifteen years a dream, for fifteen months a planned operation, was always a risk: one doesn't set out haphazardly in a small sailboat across 4,400 miles of ocean, and Buckley's account of perils of the sea as experienced by himself since he acquired his first sailboat at age thirteen is at once graphic, instructive, and terrifying. But, we learn quickly, the concern is mostly for the prospect of thirty days and thirty nights away from the cosmopolitan jungle to which he and his friends are accustomed; their lair, so to speak. But it happened: notwithstanding vicissitudes amusing, annoying, and even dangerous, suddenly the schooner, and the entire trip, were airborne, and the experience resulted in a fusion of hopes, fears, ambitions, and pleasures that lifts the book from the category of mere chronicles of the sea, into a chronicle of our time, a passage of the spirit.

Author: William F. Buckley
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.72h x 6.20w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9781493076918
ISBN10: 1493076914
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Water Sports | Sailing
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

About the Author
William Frank Buckley Jr. was an American public intellectual, conservative author, and political commentator. His avocational interests included music and sailing, both of which he excelled at. He died in 2008.