Full Circle: Dangers and Insights Of Sailing Around the World, CL

The first time he set foot on a Sunfish as a teenager, Lee Gunter fell in love with the adventure of sailing. Thereafter, he set out to learn everything he could about it. In his twenties, he began to dream of circumnavigating the earth and took advantage of every opportunity he had to gain experience in sailing, renovating—and living on—sailboats. Although a number of obstacles would delay the consummation of his dream for two decades, he refused to surrender the goal, finally setting sail March 3, 1997 on the three-year voyage that would change his life forever. From an archive of almost daily emails sent to the Houston Chronicle and posted on an internet site that drew over 250,000 readers, Gunter has knit together a compelling journal of the challenges and dangers he faced, the countries he visited, the people he met, and perhaps most important of all, what he learned about himself.