Randall PefferRandall Peffer is the author of 12 nonfiction books as well as over 350 travel-lifestyle features for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, and Sail. His travel features have appeared n most US major metro dailies, including the New York Times and Washington Post. The son of a career naval officer, Peffer holds a 100-ton master’s license and has logged over 100,000 miles at sea. He has been the captain of the research schooner Sarah Abbot for 38 years and has been elected to the prestigious seafarers’ organization the Cruising Club of America. After more than three decades of teaching writing and literature at Phillips Academy, Andover, he has left teaching to write full time. He sails out of his homeports of Marion, Massachusetts; Great Guana Cay, Abaco Islands; and Long Beach, California. Read More Read Less