Catch Voice Of A Voyage Formulated By Doann Houghton-Alico Expressed As Print

story, beautiful photography, beautiful book! This is a mustread book! Doann HoughtonAlico has brought the world to the reader in a beautifully written, lyrical way.
Her adventures are amazing as she and her husband sailed around the world over a period of ten years in their sailboat from terrifying, to poignant, to amusing.
This is a perfect book for book clubs as discussion could cover a myriad of topics environmental issues, cultures, marine life, animals, birds,pirates etc.
as well as issues such as courage, inner strength, and world view, among others,
Do not miss this book and encourage others to read it! This book is certainly a great read for any traveller, and for many others, too.
. There are an awful lot of turgid travel books out there, many of which Ive had to read, so its refreshing to come across such a delightful account of a ten year sail round the world ttells you so much about the places they visit and so much about the human condition.

The writing, for one thing, is a joy, Theres not a clunky phrase in the whole book but then the author is a poet.
Theres also a sprinkling of her poems in the book, and although I usually find the inclusion of poems counterproductive, these ones are clear and sharp and relate not only to the narrative, but act as riffs on the thorny problems of life in general.
My particular favourite was about a quat chewing teenager that reflected the whole tragic situation in most of the world.

As we accompany them on their voyage, we learn all kinds of things including the weather/yachting/ birdlife/undersea world/agriculture, and a lot about the living conditions of the people they come into contact with.
I even learned some things I didnt know about Egypt and Greece, Also throughout the book there are short and succinct passages explaining the history and political background, and in these I thought the author did a pretty good job in putting her finger on the pulse of wherever they were.
Then thats what a travel writer is supposed to do to get under the skin of wherever they happen to be.

Some of the best parts of the book are when she shares her thoughts about the big issues of life love, fear, bravery, family, how we should live our lives and death.
But although this might sound a real turnoff, she has woven them into the story with such a lightness of touch and with such insouciance, that they never fail to strike a chord.

This book was so much more then expected, The history and sea life of all the places,Doann HoughtonAlice, visited, the adventures,some dangerous.
This book will be one to look back to, as a reference after reading, Excellent book! In, sixtyyear old author Doann HoughtonAlico and her husband embarked on a tenyear sailing circumnavigation visiting fortyone countries and sailing over,nautical miles.
As an awardwinning author of both technical books and poetry, she brings her love of research into the tangents of the stories she encountered and her lyrical voice to create a picture of the world few of us know.
The author, an adept observer and an enthusiastic participant in what life has to offer, writes of her love of the sea at night far away from land, but she also describes such exotic places as remote islands of the South Pacific where black magic and wives bought for three boar tusks are the norm.
She evokes the spirit of people and places by revisiting their cultural and natural history and exploring beneath the surface.
Her portrayals are riveting, drawing the reader quickly into an intimate chronicle of tragedy and

beauty.
Doann's poetry and photographs add additional dimensions to her evocative writing, Doann relishes places like the sandy, forbidding, uninterrupted views of the Sudanese desert from the marsasinlets of the Red Sea, where flamingoes and camels aboundbut also addresses the more serious issues she witnessed such as survival in areas of exploding populations, decreasing food supplies, climate change, and the impact of war.
She describes both in a visceral, yet insightful way, Her inquisitiveness, the allure of exploration, and a strong curiosity about the world inspire her writing.
Whether floating in the sea eyetoeye with a humpback whale, escaping pirates, or drinking tea in a bombedout Eritrean alley with refugees, Doann takes you there.
Visit her website at www, doannhoughton. com. At first this book seemed a little more negative than necessary, consistently focusing on what had been lost at each of the stops along the way, but as it progressed the tone shifted and the stories and even the poems really started to grow on me.
In the end, I'm so glad the writer put it all down, the good and the bad.
What an amazing journey she made, especially inspiring to me because she was in hers when she started her circumnavigation.
I traveled across North America, without roots, for nine years, And when it came time to settle, I knew I had changed, How would a similar time on water change Doann HoughtonAlico, I wondered, as I began to read her book, Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World during a TenYear Circumnavigation

While my mode of travel was aby.
foot motorhome that I called Gypsy Lee, the author's was aby,foot specially designed sailing vessel dubbed Bali Ha'i III, While our method of travel was worlds apart and I knew only little about ocean sailing, I am a wanderer at heart and know the joys of a journey in which every day holds new experiences, new people and eagerness tinged with anxiousness about the unknown path ahead.
So it was with anticipation that I dived into HoughtonAlico's travel/memoir,

Not a page disappointed,

This is not a book about being young and setting off to see the world it is a book about a woman in hers who has already seen much of the world and now wants to make sense of it.
From the start of the journeywest from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to its final destinationyears later, at the same port from which it beganthis is the story of a woman's passage from one life to another.


The author's voyage with her husband, Wayne, covered,nautical miles with stops incountries.
Along the way were whales and orangutans, swimming with sea creatures, exotic food, a near boarding of their sailboat by pirates, boatdamaging stormsand the changing relationship between wife and husband.


HoughtonAlico saw the world through eyes aware of what need, as well as excess and greed, were doing to the planet we all live on.
The loss of trees for firewood and the loss of the ocean's bounty because of overfishing, created by locals close to home and the offshore fishing industry at sea, worried her.


"We live with what we have done, and what we have not done," she wrote.


Voice of a Voyage includes HoughtonAlico's poetry that describes with grace the people and events that collided with her journey.
My favorite was her poem called "I'm Hungry," written after visiting a backalley Cambodian orphanage, She was going to buy treats for the children, "No, aunty," her driver told her, "Buy rice and vegetables. They need those most. " The poem compared her hunger for life and love to the children's hunger for safety and food.


The book is written through the eyes of a historian who is knowledgeable about the past that took place where she walks in the present.
Finding parallels between the past and present is like "puzzle solving," she wrote,

This is a book for all who question life, all who want to know more about the world we live in, and all who enjoy traveling the worldeven if it's a voyage made in a favorite recliner.
It both delights the soul with beauty and disturbs the mind with unpleasant realities, Best of all, it makes one think,

by Pat Bean
for Story Circle Book s
reviewing books by, for, and about women Ferdinand the Bull and the Pig with the Straight Tail books from early childhood about survivors, who managed that because they were different, also Paddle to the Sea an adventure across an ocean, and Silver Pennies, poetry for and about children with magical elves and fairies and a quilt that became a land of adventure when sick in bed.
Later Kon Tiki, Treasure Island and Kidnapped, Smugglers Island, all adventure stories involving the sea, These are a small selection of books I read as a child, How was I to know I would become the essence of these wonderful booksMy current book is a travel memoir: Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World During a Ten year Circumnavigation published by Sunstone Press in.
It combines adventure, s Ferdinand the Bull and the Pig with the Straight Tail books from early childhood about survivors, who managed that because they were "different," also Paddle to the Sea an adventure across an ocean, and Silver Pennies, poetry for and about children with magical elves and fairies and a quilt that became a land of adventure when sick in bed.
Later Kon Tiki, Treasure Island and Kidnapped, Smuggler's Island, all adventure stories involving the sea, These are a small selection of books I read as a child, How was I to know I would become the essence of these wonderful booksMy current book is a travel memoir: Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World During a Ten year Circumnavigation published by Sunstone Press in.
It combines adventure, survival, myths and legends, history and culture, and, A previous book "Dancing Fish" is a chapbook of narrative nonfiction combined with poetry about the circumnavigation, published by Pudding House Publications in.
Clearly, I do like to travel, the kind of travel where you are immersed in the place, the experience, the culture, history, art, and so much else.
There is much to learn from others, Take a look at my earlier blogs for information about a recent trip the summer ofwith myyear old grandson to Asia and a trip to Cuba in March.
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