Snow Petrel: A father & son voyage to the windiest place on earth
About this audiobook
This is a book about a voyage. Not just any trip across any ocean, but a battle against the Southern Ocean, the Antarctic pack ice and the fury of hurricane force blizzards.
When Ben Tucker set off from Tasmania in his small home-built steel yacht, he set himself a tentative goal of reaching mainland East Antarctica. As crew he had his youngest brother and the last minute inclusion of his father as cabin-boy (on a promise of good behaviour). The destination was the remote Cape Denison – statistically the windiest place on the planet.
More than a travel tale, this is the introspective journey of a father who has consciously surrendered responsibility to his children. Woven through the passage is an inter-generational theme, humour and a recognition of shared adulthood with a link between past, present and future.
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About the author
Jon Tucker married the girl next door when they were teenagers in New Zealand, and they both built the well-known traditional ketch New Zealand Maid as their home. A few years later, with their family of five boys, they gave up their teaching jobs, loaded up ten boxes of school-work, and sailed away into the South Seas. Their adventurous lifestyle has provided Jon with sufficient material – both true and imaginary - to become a full time writer.
