Running with Pirates
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Running with Pirates

On freedom, adventure, and fathers and sons

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Running with Pirates

On freedom, adventure, and fathers and sons

About this book

At the age of eighteen, Ká ri Gí slason arrives on the island of Corfu after a life-altering encounter with his father in Iceland. Looking for adventure, he decides to stay after meeting ' the Pirate' , a mysterious Greek stranger who offers him work – only to find himself eventually fleeing the island, leaving behind a debt he promises to repay. Three decades later, as a father of two teenage sons, he returns to Corfu with his family. As he revisits his memories of the island, he begins to understand that this place has shaped the adult he has become, and that the inevitable letting go of his own children lies ahead. Full of the colour and vitality of the Greek islands, Running with Pirates traverses the joys and challenges of parenthood, the fearlessness of youth, the debts of our past, and the stories we tell ourselves and our children.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Kári Gíslason
  3. Author Biography
  4. Title Page
  5. Imprint Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Chapter 1: Stranding
  9. Chapter 2: An invitation to my sons
  10. Chapter 3: The Pirate
  11. Chapter 4: What we tell our children
  12. Chapter 5: New shoes
  13. Chapter 6: Our perceptions of danger
  14. Chapter 7: Islands of our own
  15. Chapter 8: Crumbling walls
  16. Chapter 9: Knowing when to go
  17. Chapter 10: On the steps
  18. Chapter 11: Offers of piracy
  19. Chapter 12: Small acts of acceptance
  20. Chapter 13: The first debt
  21. Chapter 14: The spaces between us
  22. Chapter 15: The Pirate’s business card
  23. Chapter 16: Eighty dollars
  24. Chapter 17: The true debt
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. Also by Kári Gíslason