48 Days to Barbados
Will be published approx. on 20. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-967038-34-3 (ISBN)
Description
In 1999, 28-year-old Karson Brown and her best friend embarked on a simple journey: they were going to help a woman they'd never met navigate her thirty-four-foot sailboat from Portugal to Ft. Lauderdale. Their three-week adventure crossing the Atlantic quickly became a fight for survival as contaminated water, a dead engine, and depleted provisions during hurricane-season winds threatened their very lives.
In this breathtaking memoir, Brown takes readers on a forty-eight day journey across the ocean where they navigated by the stars, and learned that the greatest challenges weren't the towering waves or electrical storms, but the demons they had brought aboard with them.
This book will release Oct. 20, 2026. Learn more at redfernpress.com.
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Persons
Author and artist Karson Brown grew up sailing and living aboard boats in the Pacific Northwest. She turned twenty-one on a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean aboard a thirty-four-foot sailboat during hurricane season before turning thirty. Karson raised her two children along the shores of Vashon Island surrounded by a menagerie of critters. She is a writer, photographer, artist, and lifelong devotee of water. Karson is an alumna of Joyce Maynard's "Write By The Lake Workshop", in Guatemala. She currently resides on Alki Beach collecting shells and befriending seagulls. Karson has two short stories in the upcoming Vine Leaves Press 50 Give or Take Anthology, coming out November 2025. Red Fern Press will publish Karson's debut memoir 48 Days to Barbados May 12, 2026.