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Drifting Away

By: Jacqueline Cope
Narrated by: Ruth Redman
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Drifting Away is a seven-year story of my journey with my partner on an old Nicholson yacht through the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, and down to the very remote islands of the South Pacific, New Zealand, and then eventually living a further four years in a small island in Greece.

We explored small islands--many of which were impossible to reach by public transport--in the Marquesas, French Polynesia, the Cook islands, Tonga, and Fiji. Many of these sparsely populated islands had no electricity, running water, shops, or even money. The inhabitants were subsisting by fishing and growing their own food. Very few people visited, they were pleased to see us, and we were able to help with mending outboard motors and in other ways. It was a great insight into communities often showing creative and artistic talent.

©2021 Jacqueline Cope (P)2022 Jacqueline Cope Travel Writing & Commentary Caribbean
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Unfortunately I was unable to get through this book and after making it a quarter of the way I had to give up. The narrator does a good job trying to keep up the tempo of the book, while navigating the lack of connection between each sentence. It is not enough.

This book can't decide whether it is a travel diary or a tale of adventure, and ends up as neither. It jumps left and right without flow or momentum. Each line doesn't connect with the last and there is no creation of interest in a location or person as the author jumps between each with increasing speed. What could be an interesting look at sailing itself and the form of travel as a single woman going from boat to boat, it really misses the mark.

The makings of a great story of travel lost to a line by line memory dump.

A sporadic memory dump

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