Airborne A Sentimental Journey Author:William F Buckley Jr Airborne is how WFB describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends. The trip, for fifteen years a dream, for fifteen months a planned operations, was always a risk: one doesn't set out haphazardly in a small sailboat across 4,400 miles of ocean, and Buckley's account of perils of the sea as experienced by himself sinc... more »e he acquired his first sailboat at age thirteen is at once graphic, instructive and terrifying. . .« less