CASTING OFF: HOW A CITY GIRL FOUND HAPPINESS ON THE HIGH SEAS
Book ID/图书代码： 02000014B71561
English Summary/英文概要： As a journalist for the Independent, Emma Bamford is swept along with the London rat race, lost amongst the egos of Fleet Street. Surrounded by budget cuts and bullies, the thrill of a breaking news story is no longer enough. And at 31, still struggling to get to a fourth date and surrounded by friends settling down to married life and babies, Emma decides to grasp her life by the roots and reclaim her freedom...by running away to sea and joining a complete stranger (and his cat) on a yacht in Borneo. Reflective yet humorous and self-deprecating, we share Emma’s excitement and fear at leaving a good job for an unknown adventure, and join her as she travels to some of the most exotic places in the world and starts to realise what really matters in life. She discovers the supreme awkwardness of sharing a tiny space with total strangers, the unimaginable beauty of paradise islands and secret jungle rivers, glimpses lost tribes, works all hours for demanding superyacht owners, and has a terrifyingly near miss with pirates. Fending off romantic propositions from a Moldovan pig farmer and a Sri Lanken village chief amongst others, Emma finds adventure and happiness in the most unlikely places. From planning each day meticulously to learning to let go and leave things to chance, Emma’s story shows that it is possible to break free and find happiness - and love - on your own terms.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作为《独立报》的一名记者，艾玛•巴姆福特曾感受过伦敦激烈的竞争，也曾迷失在舰队街的自负中。各种铺天盖地的预算削减和欺凌新闻使得读者们不再满足于一条简简单单的爆炸性新闻。虽然已经31岁却还在努力于自己的第四任约会对象，周围的朋友们也无不无时无刻谈论着她们的婚姻和孩子，艾玛还是决定从最底层去感受生活，去重新宣示自己的自由。。。。。。她因此逃离海上，与一名完全陌生的人（以及他的猫咪）踏上了婆罗洲的豪华游艇之旅。充满反思、幽默与自嘲，我们仿佛与艾玛感同身受，抛弃一份好工作而转向未知之旅时的那种兴奋与担忧之情，同时与她一道前往世界上最奇异的国度，并逐渐认识到什么才是生活的真谛。她发现与一名完全陌生的人共享一块极其窄小的空间是一件极度尴尬的事情，天堂之岛和秘密的丛林河流令人难以想象的窒息之美，她瞥见过失落的部落，也曾一刻不停的为要求严苛的游艇主人工作，甚至曾差点碰上可怕的海盗。回绝了莫尔多万养猪户和斯里兰卡村长等多人的浪漫求婚后，艾玛在最不可能的地方找到了旅行和快乐。从精心计划每一天到学会放手再到随心所欲，艾玛用她的亲身经历为我们证明，每个人都可以以他自己的方式挣脱束缚，从来找寻到快乐与爱。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：精彩的故事。。。。。。还有许多的乐趣等待我们去挖掘，总而言之，这是一个充满乐趣与启发的故事。 Yachting LifeAn engaging tale...there is much fun to be had The independent a funny and inspiring story Yachting Life
About the Author/作者介绍： 艾玛•巴姆福特是一名生活在英国东部的作家和记者，曾在《独立报》《每日邮报》工作，最近她则担任inewspaper的新编辑。
她从来的生活经历可谓十分平常，在父母的严格监管下，她和弟弟妹妹在林肯和诺丁汉长大。完成了在南安普敦大学的英国文学学习和在中央兰开夏大学的新闻学习后，她开始了作为一名记者的新手生涯，首先是在Bicester Review，随后在Derby Evening Telegraph，采访当地宴会举办方和询问堂区委员会成员让她获得了作为记者的初步的经验与成长。舰队街向她招手，她作为一名记者和新闻编辑工作者的成就包括：采访F1车手詹森•巴顿有关于他最喜欢的烧烤三明治中的辅料，快速询问现任内政大臣其较为钟爱的奶酪类型（需快速指出一种？）以及在布鲁斯•福赛斯的楼下厕所里尿裤子的经历。在那短暂的几年中，当然也曾有一段严肃和艰难的时期。
随后，当30岁到来，她突然对于自己所创造的出的这种时分稳定平常的工作感到厌烦，尽管收到了无数来自朋友和家人们的反对，她还是毅然进行了一次职业的转变，她应征了网络上的一条关于“招聘船员”的广告，逃到了婆罗洲，与一名她从未见过的陌生男子以及一条猫居住在一艘船上，开始生活和旅行。她在野生丛林中捕猎大象，拜访荒岛，并曾逃离海盗的追逐。最终，她在意大利上了一条超豪华的游艇，担当女乘务员。她的所有经历都被写在了她的首部作品《扬帆远航》中。
艾玛如今是一名兼职的自由职业者，她给了自己充足的时间去从事写作事业，争取完成从回忆录创作到小说创作的转变。她希望能成为一名全职作家。在她的作品中，热带雨林是她灵感的来源，同时也是其多数作品故事发生的场所，尽管她现已尽可能的远离大海生活，居住在遥远的内陆德比郡。并且，尽管她常常玩笑式的自嘲，然而她对于认识生活中重要的真谛以及找寻自己所渴望的自由却始终保有着一种严肃的态度。
Emma Bamford is an East Midlands-based author and journalist who has worked at The Independent and Daily Express and most recently as News Editor of the i newspaper.
She had a fairly normal life to begin with, growing up with her younger brother and sister under the watchful eyes of her parents in Lincoln and Nottingham. After studying English Literature at Southampton University and Newspaper Journalism at UCLan, she started work as a cub reporter for the Bicester Review and then the Derby Evening Telegraph, cutting her journalistic teeth interviewing organisers of local fetes and grilling parish council members. Fleet Street beckoned and highlights of her career as a reporter and news editor include asking F1 driver Jenson Button what his favourite toasted sandwich filling was, quizzing the incumbent Home Secretary on his preferred kind of cheese (spot a pattern?) and peeing in Bruce Forsyth’s downstairs loo. There was some serious and hard-hitting journalism in there for a fair few years, too.
Then, in her early 30s and bored with this ’fairly normal life’ she’d created for herself, Emma took a career break and, despite protestations from friends and family, answered an advert on the internet for ’crew wanted’ and flew to Borneo to live on a boat with a man she had never met and his cat. She found herself hunting for elephants in the jungle, visiting deserted islands and running from pirates. Finally she ended up among billionaires, working as a stewardess on a superyacht in Italy. Her adventures form the basis of her first book, Casting Off.
Emma now works part-time as a freelance to give herself space to write and make the jump from memoir to novels. Her ambition is to make book writing her full-time career. Tropical settings feature high in her inspiration and as her books’ settings, although she lives about as far away from the sea as it is possible, in landlocked rural Derbyshire. And, while she may make self-deprecating jokes constantly, she really is serious about figuring out what is important in life and finding the freedom to be who you want to be.
emma@emmabamford.com
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