Discover one womans solo journey from Lands End to Greece, embracing solitude, selfdiscovery, and resilienceGood Housekeeping recommended 20 uplifting memoirs by remarkable women, June 2024Wanderlust magazine best travel books of 2024A lesson on how to live, how to heal, how to grow and how to fly Gordan BuchananA beautiful, wise and openhearted odyssey through life, loves and the sea Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterfly IslesI didnt know a love song between a woman and her boat could transport, and transfix me. The Half Bird made my heart whole Rhik Samadder, author of I Never Said I Loved YouWe have no idea how much resilience there is inside us until we have to draw on it. We learn that we grow through adversity only as we go through it. That we crave happiness like plants leaning toward the lightIn 2016, Susan Smillie quit her job to sail round the British Isles aboard her beloved yacht Isean. Yet when it came to rounding the tip of Cornwall, she unexpectedly headed south, leaving home in her wake.Over the next three years she sailed the continent, living with only the basics she had aboard, by her wits, and via the kindness of the people and beauty of the coasts she encountered.But Susans travels were just the beginning of her spiritual journey. Could she make the wild, unruly sea her home?Praise for The Half BirdIts hard to read The Half Bird without wondering whether you could do it too. It may be better to start by pondering Smillies wider message that to...
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Discover one womans solo journey from Lands End to Greece, embracing solitude, selfdiscovery, and resilienceGood Housekeeping recommended 20 uplifting memoirs by remarkable women, June 2024Wanderlust magazine best travel books of 2024A lesson on how to live, how to heal, how to grow and how to fly Gordan BuchananA beautiful, wise and openhearted odyssey through life, loves and the sea Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterfly IslesI didnt know a love song between a woman and her boat could transport, and transfix me. The Half Bird made my heart whole Rhik Samadder, author of I Never Said I Loved YouWe have no idea how much resilience there is inside us until we have to draw on it. We learn that we grow through adversity only as we go through it. That we crave happiness like plants leaning toward the lightIn 2016, Susan Smillie quit her job to sail round the British Isles aboard her beloved yacht Isean. Yet when it came to rounding the tip of Cornwall, she unexpectedly headed south, leaving home in her wake.Over the next three years she sailed the continent, living with only the basics she had aboard, by her wits, and via the kindness of the people and beauty of the coasts she encountered.But Susans travels were just the beginning of her spiritual journey. Could she make the wild, unruly sea her home?Praise for The Half BirdIts hard to read The Half Bird without wondering whether you could do it too. It may be better to start by pondering Smillies wider message that to...
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