Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying: 40 Years of High Seas Travels and Lowbrow Tales

Based on nearly 40 hours of interviews, Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying is the memoir of a 61-year-old, life-long merchant seaman re-counting his fantastic, hilarious, and politically incorrect exploits. He’s a sailor-scholar and an individualist anarchist; he’s read Voltaire and The Egyptian Book of the Dead. He admits to working at his hobby, sailing, to keep up his real occupation, drinking.

He’s lived 40 years of adventures around the world, including an incursion into Cambo...