Like other young dreamers, Katie and Maurice Cloughley bought a sailboat and set off around the world. They met while taking sailing lessons in the west of England and after getting married, they worked for six years in northern Canada, earning the money for their ideal boat. When they found her, a lovely little Australian-built ketch, they renamed her Nanook of the North, planned for a five year voyage, and sailed away. A World to the West is the story of that first circum-navigation, with all its excitment and terror, adventure and fun, told by a paticulary gifted writer. This first round-the world trip laid the foundation for Katie and Maurice's life of astonishing contrasts. They alternated their years of sailing tropical oceans with years of working in isolated communities in the Artic, and their northern tales are told in Maurice's beautifully illustrated book, The Spell of the Midnight Sun. The Cloughleys now live perminently aboard Nanook. Maurice is working on his art-mainly wood-block prints and pen-and-ink drawings, like those that have been used in his books-and writing about their two-year sailing voyage down the Pacific coast of North America, from the Aleutian Isalnds to the Tierra del Fuego. - from Amzon