Good Night Sea Stories

Good Nigh Sea Stories, by Alberto Coretti

Eighteen short stories with the sea as a companion and friend. They talk of the joy of setting sail again on a boat you built yourself; of the submerged beauty of the Phoenician civilization along the Lebanese coast; and the mesmerizing discovery of the music of storms.

Eighteen glimpses into life at sea, including captains, swimmers, surfers, as well as artists, writers, and musicians.

French tennis champion and sailor Alain Gerbault is drawn to the dangerous, intoxicating beauty of the uncharted routes among the Tuamotu atolls. For endless summers, Californian Audrey Sutherland explores the remote northeastern coast of Molokai, Hawaii — a world of towering cliffs and dramatic waterfalls, accessible only by swimming or canoe. Oriana Fallaci dives off the granite rocks of a wild, untamed island that mirrors her own nature, while Honor Frost, a pioneer of underwater archaeology, recovers ancient anchors, convinced that “time spent on the surface is time wasted”.

This book is also a borderland, a space suspended between that liminal time when wakefulness is ending and sleep has yet to begin. It’s the magical time when stories to read become dreams.

Edited by Alberto Coretti / creative direction Floriana Cavallo / graphic design Marco Boldrini / Italian to English translation Rossella Venturi, Graeme McGlone

Language: English

180 + 4 pages / 115 x 163 mm / printed on Favini Remake Oyster Carapace (cover) / Favini Shiro Alga, made from recycled algae, FSC certified