Category: Sailing Memoirs

For immediate release, 30 July 2023

Contact: George Kent Kedl & Linnea Hendrickson, jacanapress@gmail.com

Kent: 505-440-3334, Linnea: 505-977-5811, 1312 Los Arboles Ave. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107

Land-locked Albuquerque Sailor Launches a Gripping Memoir

 of his Eight Years on a Sailboat

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 17 July 2023 — Philosophy professor and sailor-turned-author Kent Kedl brought 100 typewriters and a dinghy with a sail with him when he moved to Albuquerque twelve years ago following the death of his sailor wife and co-author Pamela Thompson Kedl. His second wife, Linnea Hendrickson, pushed him to collect Pam’s letters and his stories (“Yes! Other people will want to read this!”) and turn them into a book, so We Ran Away to Sea: A Memoir and Letters became a Covid project that out-lasted the pandemic. 

Book Description: “If I don’t get away from here, I think I’ll die,” Kent announced to his shocked wife Pam in the early 1980s. We Ran Away to Sea tells how two Midwesterners with no experience of the sea or sailing gave up their careers and comfortable South Dakota home to sail with their children from England to the Caribbean, embarking on a multi-year quest for a simpler, more satisfying, and honest life.

Essentials: We Ran Away to Sea: A Memoir and Letters (ISBN: 979-8-9870097-0-3 paperback and 979-8-9870097-10 e-book) by George Kent Kedl and Pamela Thompson Kedl, published by Jacana Press, 2023. $16.99/$5.99, 352 pages,is available for purchase from local retail and online booksellers (including Amazon), through IngramSpark, and from the author. Contact information: Webpage: Jacanapress.com; Facebook: George Kent Kedl; Author Page: George Kent Kedl; jacanapress@gmail.com; 505-344-7650 (h); Linnea 505-977-5811or Kent 505-440-3334. Events 2023: Travel Bug, Santa Fe, 26 August, 5 pm; Treasure House Books, Albuquerque, 10 September, 1:30-3:30 pm.

Contact: Kent or Linnea at Jacanapress@gmail.com or via text or phone for review copies, book talks, signings, interviews, cover images, or more information.

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