To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Susan St. John

TO SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET: HURRICANE ISLAND - THE OUTWARD BOUND YEARS

Voices from the field collected by Susan St. John

This book tells of the creation—starting in 1964—of the only Outward Bound sea school in the United States, on Hurricane Island, ten miles off the coast in Penobscot Bay, Maine.  

Susan St. John, a HIOBS instructor herself for 30 years, took nine years to gather the 400 color photographs included in the book and the stories of 100 staff members. 

At the heart of the book are the stories about the creation of experiential education on the island, each one liberally doused with a sense of service, salt water, and the smell of spruce on Hurricane in the magnificent archipelago of midcoast Maine. The epilogue includes HIOBS’s success after its move to Wheeler Bay in St. George in the first decade of this century and the creation of the Center for Science and Leadership which now runs programs on Hurricane Island.