Posted by Pam Adams on January 02, 2008 at 20:02:37 from 134.71.192.172 user PamAdams.
There was an article on the dream of boat-building in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. Does anyone know the book mentioned below?
As a boy in Prague who'd never seen the sea, he found an adventure book in his tiny neighborhood library. It told of two kids who slip their parents and brave the wild oceans on a sailboat named Little Cloud. The accompanying illustration showed a boat with a single mast, three sails, and a stern nearly identical to the bow. He memorized the picture and the names of the parts.
Long after he forgot the book's name, it scudded through his dreams, that magical boat, begging to be built. "From 10 years old," says Markvart, whose English is broken, "I had a sailboat back of my head."
pam