A marriage at sea : a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck / Sophie Elmhirst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elmhirst, Sophie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bailey, Maurice.

Bailey, Maralyn.

Shipwrecks--Pacific Ocean.

Shipwrecks.

Shipwreck survival--Pacific Ocean.

Shipwreck survival.

Shipwreck victims--Pacific Ocean--Biography.

Shipwreck victims.

Married people--Biography.

Married people.

Genre:

Informational works.

Biographies.

Biography.

Physical Description:

246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First United States edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.

Summary:

"The electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits. Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream--as we all dream--of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away? Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But Maurice began to study nautical navigation. Maralyn made detailed lists of provisions. And in June 1972, they set sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves. What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive on the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the world, they can't run away from themselves. Taut, propulsive, and dazzling, A Marriage At Sea pairs adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable"-- Provided by publisher.

A Marriage at Sea tells the true story of Maurice and Maralyn, an unlikely couple who abandon ordinary life to sail the world--only to face disaster when a whale sinks their boat in the Pacific. Stranded in a raft with little hope of rescue, they battle starvation, the elements, and each other in a gripping tale of survival, obsession, and the limits of love.

Notes:

"First published in hardcover in Great Britain as Maurice and Maralyn: a Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2024"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Weiner fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Elmhirst, Sophie. Marriage at sea

ISBN:

9780593854280

0593854284

OCLC:

1498818832