Book Review: Small Boat to Freedom

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5:49 AM Wed 29 Jun 2011 GMT

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Not everyone is prepared to resign from a perfectly good job, sell off the family real estate, ask their spouse and teenage son to board a 31-foot performance cruising yacht, and then set sail for a questionable financial future in another country, in the opposite hemisphere. John Vigor, however, is definitely not your average man. In his book 'Small Boat to Freedom' we first meet Vigor living comfortably in South Africa with his wife, June, and son, Kevin. He's a popular syndicated newspaper columnist who daily sips the good life in the beautiful ...

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