Book
Once upon a Gypsy Moon : a memoir : an improbable voyage and one man's yearning for redemption
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Center Street, 2013.
Physical Description
ix, 262 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Michael Hurley, an experienced attorney and former professional sailor, returns to the sea to give us a thought-provoking memoir of a man's yearning for redemption and renewal in the wake of infidelity, divorce, and failure" --Provided by the publisher
Contents
- To sail
- A voyage begins
- Weather signs
- A voyage lost
- Preparations for sea
- A time to go
- Whistling in the graveyard
- Landfall Beaufort
- A homecoming
- An unlikely adventurer
- What Dean Martin knew
- A moment of indecision
- A wanderer's vigil
- A voice in the darkness
- Thanksgiving
- A cold rain
- A simple vessel
- A following sea
- A yearning
- Africa beckons
- A harbor homecoming
- The siren's song
- The promised land
- The pearl of great price
- The secret
- The story
- Gathering stones
- Casting away
- The passage
- On right marriage
- A mystery unfolds
- An immodest proposal
- A boy's will
- A moment of truth
- A plan in earnest
- To sea at last
- The crossing
- Atlantis rising
- Landfall Nassau
- Coming ashore
- Sailors and lunatics
- A pilgrim's tale
- Golden calves
- What the nomad knows
- Journey of the Magi
- The stranger
- Maiden voyage
- The perfect mahi-mahi
- The voyage to come
- The loss of the Gypsy Moon.