![]() ![]() With Peter Weir's new movie "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" opening on November 14th, I expect the audience for O'Brian will be growing. It seems I'll have to keep my sailing adventures to the printed page, and the silver screen.įortunately, a writer-friend of mine, Kij Johnson, loaned me a copy of Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, and I joined the club devoted to "the best writer you never heard of" (as Kenneth Ringle called him in The Washington Post). But after several Channel crossings and a sailing weekend on Lake Superior, I've found I don't have the stomach for it. When I was a lad, books like Captains Courageous and Two Years Before the Mast, The Sea Wolf and later, Moby Dick, all gave me dreams of being a sailor. Like Melville's character, I did feel called to the sea, but I'm afraid I won't be shipping out anytime soon. HMS Surprise encouters a fierce storm at Cape Horn (©2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal Studios, and Miramax Film Corp.) ![]()
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