Book description
'This book should inspire a great number of folk who may think it's
too late for them to leave their desk and follow their wildest dreams
into proving themselves wrong.' Ranulph Fiennes
Twenty-one years of corporate life had looked after Ian Dickens
pretty well. A directorship. A comfortable house, flash car and exotic
holidays. A happy home with an understanding wife and two children who
had entered their teens with no Kevin and Perry signs of
rebelliousness. He had a dog that didn't bite when he walked in
through the door. He had great friends and privileged experiences. Why
on earth would someone give all that up and head off around the world
on an ocean-racing yacht for eleven months? Especially when it meant
losing all the professional trappings, risking relationships and not
knowing where the money might come from when he returned home? Sea
Change is a breathtaking adventure from start to finish as Ian Dickens
battled against everything that the sea could throw at him, and
against the difficulties of the life he returned to - his career gone,
the family home just a few weeks away from being sold. It tells the
story of the struggle to maintain fragile relationships worn thin by
the stresses of the wild ocean; of how the heartbreak of being
seperated from a precious family was offset by the vigorous joy of
following one's dreams to their conclusion...
Ian Dickens is the great, great grandson of Charles Dickens. He
has started the Cresta Run 50 times, successfully completing it on 49
occasions. He learned to fly, taking up a Tiger Moth solo, raced his
MG Midget to the Arctic Circle and back for charity and has tried a
couple of skydives for good measure.
