Lessons From Summer School

By David M. Perkins

Book Overview

How do you rebuild a shattered life after enduring personal tragedy followed by the onset of terminal cancer? What is it like to cruise the entire Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Chesapeake Bay to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583850538
• ISBN13: 9781583850534
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Cold Tree Pr
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

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A saga of survival and seamanship

Endurance, perseverance, and true determination to live are certainly the watchwords of this book. Dave Perkins nursed his second wife back to health after she sufferened brain injury when a hockey puck hit her in the head. She repaid that devotion by telling him she had been converted to Jesus Christ and had no more time for Dave. His oldest child, a son, died far too young, and he was diagnosed with leukemia and given a relatively short time to live. Yet he is still here after 18 years. He gives his third wife, Nancy, much credit for his survival,but I think he downplays his own will to live. If he had not wanted to live very much, he would not be here today. His encounters with fanatical so-called Christians could have soured him forever on any person claiming belief in Christian prayer, but it hasn't. David Perkins wants to survive and that has made a tremendous difference. Dave's love of boating is very apparent throughout the book, and should appeal to many boaters. He makes the boating community very attractive with their willingness to help a neophyte and their closeness to one another. As a person who has never had any great desire to get out on the water (I am an indifferent swimmer at best), I am in awe of someone who takes to the sea armed with maps and some instruments and goes into new regions. He has a lot more courage than I have. I would recommend giving this book to anyone with a so-called teminal illness to show them how much the human spirit to survive can change an outlook from bleak to promising.