title: Chasing Dreamtime: A Sea-Going Hitchhiker's Journey Through Memory and Myth
author:  Neva Sullaway 
description: "...a gripping parallel journey sailing across the Pacific and through the emotional storms which cloud the writer's past" -- <i>National Geographic Channel</i><br /><br />"This book's structure, style and scope give it a legitimate claim to being top-tier maritime literature." -- <i>The San Diego Union-Tribune</i><br /><br />Winner of a San Diego Book Award in best unpublished nonfiction narrative category. -- <i>San Diego Book Awards</i>
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  # A Drama on the Seashore
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Honore de Balzac
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEDICATION
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Madame la Princesse Caroline Galitzin de Genthod, nee Comtesse
  
  
  
  
  
  Walewska. Homage and remembrances of
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Author.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in
  
  
  
  
  
  measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the
  
  
  
  
  
  angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon
  
  
  
  
  
  of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which
  
  
  
  
  
  for all men lies between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of
  
  
  
  
  
  great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense
  
  
  
  
  
  desires. After that age, short as the