Brave or Stupid

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Brave or Stupid

By: Tracey Christiansen, Yanne Larsson, Calle Andersson

Narrated by: Duncan Hood

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When you read about someone sailing around the world, it’s usually a dotcom millionaire or a professional adventurer. Brave or Stupid? tells a very different story. It’s an everyman tale about a middle-aged, seasick electrician with no money who suddenly and for no reason decides to sail around the world. It’s the story of Yanne Larsson, a man with a dream born not out of a passion for sailing or a search for identity or the need for a challenge. This is the story of a simple handshake. One of the old-fashioned, ironclad ones.

A casual suggestion over wine with best friend Carl Andersson turns into one of those ideas that just won’t go away. Twenty-four hours later, a handshake decides it. The little details—buying a boat, learning to sail, and saving up money—take five years, but in 2002, the two men leave Helsingborg, Sweden on a three-year voyage that will change them forever. Storms, tropical diseases, drama, love, and comedy—their story is an adventure like no other. Brave or Stupid? is a book for anyone who has ever gone beyond what is sensible and realistic to discover a whole new world outside and a whole new person inside. This is a book for anyone who still believes in the power of dreams. And handshakes....

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I loved it all. It was very well written and narrated. I often laughed out loud as the author has a very humorous style of writing.
The narrative brought back many memories for me as I and my family had cruised many of the same places during 11 years as liveaboards on our 40 foot boat, from England to the west coast of America. The details of their voyage are very accurate. I did struggle with the narrator’s persistent mispronunciation of the word quay, as it is pronounced “key” not “qway”, but this is a minor problem as his narration is otherwise excellent.

Fantastic book!