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Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year Audiobook, by Elizabeth W. Garber Play Audiobook Sample

Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year Audiobook

Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year Audiobook, by Elizabeth W. Garber Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Stacey Glemboski Publisher: Spoken Realms Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798212417105

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

19

Longest Chapter Length:

77:35 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

15 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

37:07 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

In 1971, Elizabeth Garber’s domineering father announced he was sending his “problem children”—seventeen-year-old bookish Elizabeth and her fourteen-year-old brother Woodie—to a school on a sailing ship, in order to “shape up and learn to work.” Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year chronicles Garber’s adventures, along with the fifty teen misfits and their teacher chaperones aboard the sailing school housed on a once-magnificent yacht formerly owned by General Post heiress, socialite, and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post. Sailing at the Edge of Disaster follows the journey of Oceanics School students and faculty as they motor the limping ship out of Miami to begin the grand itinerary their charismatic twenty-five-year-old school director envisioned. Along the way, the ship survives a gale at sea, a hole in the hull at deep water, an act of piracy, a near miss with a nuclear sub, and are held hostage by armed gunboats in Panama. The print version of the book was published by Toad Hall Editions, Northport, ME.

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“This elegant nautical memoir tells the story of a young woman’s courageous personal struggle for independence.”

— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Quotes

  • “A beautiful, high-stakes coming-of-age tale about survival on an old square-sailed rigger.”

    — Susan Conley, author of Landslide and The Foremost Good Fortune

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About Elizabeth W. Garber

Elizabeth W. Garber is the author of Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter (2018). She has published three books of poetry: True Affections (2012), Listening Inside the Dance (2005), and Pierced by the Seasons (2004). Maine (Island Time) (2013) is a collaboration of her poetry with paintings and photographs of Michael Weymouth. Three poems have been read on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac.

Garber received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program, was awarded writing fellowships at Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Jentel Artist Residency, and received a BA in Humanities from Johns Hopkins and a Master in Acupuncture from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute. She has maintained a private practice as an acupuncturist for nearly forty years in mid-coast Maine, where she raised her family. Visit her at elizabethgarber.com.

About Stacey Glemboski

Stacey Glemboski is a seasoned voice artist and audiobook narrator of many books in the science fiction and young adult fiction genres.