Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 456
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Trim: 5⅜ x 8⅜
978-1-4930-3527-4 • Paperback • August 2018 • $19.95 • (£14.99)
Sterling Hayden (1916-1986) is most widely known for his acting (Asphalt Jungle, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and The Godfather). However, throughout his life he punctuated his acting stints with bouts of adventuring, or wandering. He started out as a humble dory fisherman in the Grand Banks, captained a two-masted brig from Boston to Tahiti, and sailed around the world twice, all before he appeared on film. After his first Hollywood period, he enlisted in the marines under a pseudonym, eventually working as an undercover agent for the OSS. He split his later years between a canal boat in Paris and an apartment in Sausalito where he wrote much of his novel, Voyage.
Introduction to the 1977 Edition
Book I: Man at Bay
Book II: Outward Bound
Book III: Exile from Oblivion
Book IV: Ironed Wanderer
Book V: Abysmal Voyage
Book VI: Cold Star Blazing
...one unforgettable voyage...under a captain whose words may echo in your mind and whose attitude may inform your spirit for the rest of your life.
— The Times (UK)
An impressive writer. Like Fitzgerald, Hayden is a romantic. His writing about the sea evokes echoes of Conrad and McFee, of London and Galsworthy...Beautifully done.
— Los Angeles Times
A superb piece of writing...Echoes from Poe and Melville to Steinbeck and Mailer. A work of fascination on every level.
— New York Post
Hayden's wonderful autobiography Wanderer ...should be in every main salon aboard every boat. Hayden's life can't be emulated, but it is instructive
— Ocean Navigator