Sailing for Home: A Voyage from Antigua to Ireland

The Spirit of Oysterhaven is a gripping account of a transatlantic voyage on a schooner, offering both travelogue and meditation, interior journey and outward voyage of exploration.

Dorgan's meticulously exact account of the labor and skills involved could well act as a handbook for anyone prompted to repeat the adventure.

His feel for the history of the sea and sailing, drawn from wide reading, is tested against the practical realities of such an ambitious undertaking.

The qualities of endurance and willingness he must find in himself, the shared experiences that make four individuals into a crew, all these come as a succession of revelations.

This book exerts a form of curious hypnosis which stealthily insinuates its rhythms into your mind, keeping you alert while somehow lulling you into a drift of easy reading.

The enticing travelogue's curious spell is slow and incremental, yet all the more potent for being stealthy.