Former Spy Food and Garden editor Nancy Robson sent us this notice:
Head to Wind Publishing has just reissued my book, Woman in The Wheehouse, as an ebook with additional pictures and a new forward and afterward.
If ever there was a woman in a man’s job, this is it! The author spent six years — until shore-bound by the birth of her first child — in the world of commercial mariners, first as cook and deckhand, then as licensed mate on oceangoing tugs.
Two weeks before their marriage, her husband became captain of a coastal tug. A month later, she joined him on a short run on the upper Chesapeake Bay. Although she had been aboard tugs before, this was different, “like the first taste of a drug — intoxicating, seemingly harmless, but the beginning of a slowly growing addiction.”
On seagoing trips that ranged from the Chesapeake Bay to Cape Cod, from Maine to Florida, to Bermuda, New Orleans and Mexico, she felt the frustrations of failure but also the tremendous exhilaration of success. This book is for anyone who every imagined running away to sea, for every woman who wonders what it would be like to live a real-life adventure romance, for every man who relishes the outdoors, and for everyone who loves a good yarn.
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Ford Hall, Sr says
Nancy is not only a Master Mariner but also a master of the English language. Her book is well written and great summer read.
nancy robson says
Ford,
I’m so sorry it’s taken me this long to reply!! thanks for the kind words. all the best,
Nancy