Waypoints (2017)
Travel / Europe / Great Britain, - Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / General, - Travel / Special Interest / Literary, - Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Sailing, - Travel / Essays & Travelogues -
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Ian Stephen
Overview
Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in <i>Waypoints, </i>a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotland's west coast. In the book Ian Stephen reveals a lifetime's love affair with sailing; each voyage honours a seagoing vessel, and each adventure is accompanied by a spell-binding retelling of a traditional tale about the sea. His writing is enchanting and lyrical, gentle but searching, and is accompanied by beautiful illustrations of each vessel, drawn by his wife, artist Christine Morrison.<br><br>Ian Stephen is a Scottish writer, artist and storyteller from the remote and bewitching Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He fell in love with boats and sailing as a boy, pairing this love affair with a passion for the beautiful but merciless Scottish coastline, an inspiration and motivating force behind his poems, stories, plays, radio broadcasts and visual arts projects for many years.<br><br>This book will be a delightful and absorbing read for anyone with a passion for sailing and the seas, Scotland's landscape and coastlines, stories and the origins of language and literature.