Work so that you can keep working. It seemed a proposition that could easily end in suicide. Iwanted to escape this. I wanted to free myself from the working world and have time to write. AndI wanted adventure. Grendel could never free me, but this boat could.
David Vann has loved boats all his life. So when his academic career seems to be stuck in thedoldrums, he leaps at the opportunity to start an educational charter business, teaching creativewriting workshops aboard a sailboat. But a trip to Turkey sees him dreaming bigger-and beforehe knows it, he is at the helm of his own ninety-foot boat, running charters along the Turkishcoast.
And here his troubles begin. Sinking deep into debt, and encountering everything from a lostrudder to freak storms, Vann is on the verge of losing everything-including his life.
Part high-seas adventure, part journey of self-discovery, A Mile Down is a gripping andunforgettable story of struggle and redemption by a writer at the top of his game.