Tessa Duder: Seduced by the Sea

By MARGIE THOMSON

To head out to sea is to invite adventure, as these collected stories show. But if you prefer, you can enjoy such exploits vicariously.

Duder offers us stories of long sea voyages (Sara Mathew on her 15-day trip from Sydney to the Bay of Islands in 1840; Pippa and Peter Blake on their 129-day honeymoon trip from England to Auckland in 1979; Rob Hamill rowing across the Atlantic), of the sheer joy of mucking about in boats, of those who work on the water, and of thrilling sea dramas: storms at sea, mists and wrecks, and the rescue of desert-island castaway Barry Crump. Enjoyably eclectic.

HarperCollins

$29.95