NPR's Scott Neuman // Desert Island Book List
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
#59. NPR's Scott Neuman chats with Andy about their favorite books that they'd bring along to a desert island or on a long offshore passage. They get going discussing some classic sailing books, then venture into fiction and nonfiction. If you're looking for something new to read, take notes! Thanks to Scott for inspiring this podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Winners, live from Sweden. |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome back to the... |
| 0:04.6 | Fah! |
| 0:08.0 | Okay. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, this is Anna Winners, live from Sweden. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Schell. |
| 0:16.6 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:18.6 | Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | It's Andy Schell here. |
| 0:23.3 | We are at episode number 58. |
| 0:25.9 | This is an interesting one that I did with Scott Newman. |
| 0:29.5 | We basically talked about some of our favorite books and kind of a desert island book episode. |
| 0:34.9 | So what books would we take on a desert island or a long ocean passage to |
| 0:39.0 | keep it in the sailing vein of things? And we talked about a little summary of the book, |
| 0:43.5 | where we were and what we were doing when we first read it and why it was on the list. And we go back |
| 0:48.1 | and forth and diverge a few times to talk about a few other things. But it was a really fun conversation |
| 0:53.3 | and you'll see why I got |
| 0:55.0 | inspired to do it. I talk about that right at the beginning. So this is an interesting one, |
| 0:59.1 | a different kind. Scott Newman, by the way, works for NPR. He's a sailor himself, has a Tiana 37, |
| 1:05.0 | and I'm going to have him on the podcast another time to talk about his own sailing adventures. |
| 1:10.4 | But this was Scott and I talking about books. |
| 1:13.1 | A couple of reminders. The Caribbean 1500, what am I saying? Not the Caribbean 1500. |
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