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People are tired of pat answers offered up in churchy language explaining away their questions

In his controversial study of America's giving habits

and active support of President Lincoln made him a controversial public figure in the early war years

a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos – and a call for a more just

Sail Away spellslinger but also perhaps even aSomething happens when men and women put a plank between themselves and the water and set out on a voyage, whether for a day or a lifetime. Now Sail Away brings together the very finest writing about travel on water by a stellar crew of writers. Among those to be included are Joseph Conrad, Jacques Cousteau, Roald Dahl, Lawrence Durrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Thor Heyerdahl, Jonathan Raban, Paul Theroux, Mark Twain,