Beth and Evans at the Cape of Good Hope.
“Graceful prose...
imaginative photography”
hat we do in life is perhaps less important than what it does to us. Beth Leonard's story is about change brought about when she found her American dream rotting from the inside out. It is also about the courage to throw away the power and prestige of an international consulting position and seek a new life afloat, a life intimately in touch with herself, her partner, and her planet. Her graceful prose and imaginative photography pull us through raging seas, exotic ports of call, but it also takes us through her journey of self discovery and spiritual renewal. Following Seas is an exciting combination of travel prose and photographs..
Alvah Simon
author of North to the Light,
A Year in the Arctic Ice
n Following Seas, Beth Leonard takes her readers on several voyage at once personal, social, and historical. As she says,
"The literal voyages across oceans...had become a figurative voyage into the depths of my heart and soul..." As she sails, she absorbs the wisdom and courage of the early voyagers Christopher
Columbus, Captain James Cook, Charles Darwin, Joshua Slocumand in port, she learns from the perspectives of the many people she meets. We are carried along with Beth and her partner Evans through calms, storms, and days of unbounded joy until we realize, with them, how much the sea can test us and change our lives.
Patience Wales
Editor, SAIL magazine