SHAPES ON THE WIND by David Lewis

A travel autobiography by a true adventurer, written in his eighties. This is a used book in good condition: clean with light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Synopsis: Lewis is a renowned sailor and adventurer, known for his determination to live outside the restraints of today's society and his innate honesty where mistakes are concerned. This is a life story that young sailors and adventurers should know and revere, with the lessons it contains for when things get tough.

Shapes on the Wind is the autobiography of David Lewis, one of the world's old sea salts, sailors and adventurers. An uncompromising participator in the varieties and vagaries of active life, he has ventured onto sea, land and ice in every corner of the globe, investigating and testing the elements—and himself—for emotional and aesthetic potential. This account builds up a comprehensive portrait of a most unusual person in our present culture, a person dedicated to experiencing life outside the usual value systems of money, material possessions and conventional morality. His mistakes and misjudgments are many and freely admitted, yet we learn to tolerate and understand them as we move through his life story, realising that the gains could not have been achieved without some error. He is truly one of the old sea salts, an old man of the sea and younger sailors, pioneers and expeditioners should all know his story

Sailor, navigator, mountaineer, anthropologist, scientist, doctor, leper colony worker, political activist, Arab-Israeli peacebroker, academic, author, father and living legend. Now in his eighties and showing few signs of slowing down, David Lewis has written his autoiography. This is a thrilling, funny and brutally honest account of his globetrotting adventures, his encounters with people such as Jacques Cousteau, Sir Francis Chichester, Errol Flynn and Major Bill Tilman, and his many passionate but doomed marriages and love affairs.

Book Details

Code: SKU502

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 258

Published: 2000 by Harper Collins

ISBN: 073226801X

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $8.00