Book Description

Wide Courses by James B. Connolly is about an old captain who fixes a young adventurer's yacht for him only to realize something fishy is afoot. Excerpt: "Sometimes the notion comes to me while I'm talkin' to people that maybe I don't make myself clear, and it's been so for some time now—the things I see in my mind fadin' away from me at times, like ships in a fog. And that's strange enough, too, if what people tell me so often is true—that it used to be so one time that the office clerks would correct their account books by what I told 'em out of my head. But sometimes—not often—things come back to me, like today—maybe because 'tis a winter day and a gale o' wind drivin' the sea afore it in the bay below there. Things come to me then—like pictures—wind and sea and fog and the wrecks on a lee shore."