The Solitude of the Open Sea
by Gregory Newell Smith

Excerpt of a review from WindCheck, March 2008

The Solitude of the Open Sea is a series of 17 narrative essays drawn from Smith's circumnavigation aboard Atlantean, and his accounts of time alone at sea define the book's mystical essence: "It took the sea's total freedom and the solitude I found there to finally achieve the communion I'd sought for so many years. When I found that communion... it was a communion with Nature, with the universe beheld each day, with the wind, the waves, the sky, and the creatures of the sea...For a brief time I was at peace. There was nothing I truly desired, no other person I needed to make me feel whole. My world was complete."

There is, however, much more to this tale than what the late, great Warren Zevon called "splendid isolation." In Chapter 11, "Florence," Smith meets a lusty but troubled English lass who comes aboard for a while along the Australian coast, despite never having been on a sailboat. Deftly adopting accents of the fascinating people he met around the world, the author brings characters to life, perhaps even more than on the printed page.

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