A Synopsis Awaiting The Thaw

A Christmas Trilogy By Gerald J. Furnkranz

Illustrated With the Nautical Art of Gerald J. Furnkranz

Awaiting The Thaw

A Christmas Trilogy

A Christmas Trilogy, A swashbuckling high seas adventure rolling in from the world’s oceans. Woven around three Christmases!

Though not written to be so, it possesses; a dash of Homer’s Odyssey,

a splash of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea,

a touch of Melville’s Moby Dick,

Our hero is returning from a long and arduous voyage to the orient

Debarking his ship in

Old New York Harbor

He is aching for home with family and his love, celebrating Christmas, leaving the sea forever in his wake

Love turns its back on our hero. Wounded, he runs away,

returning to the sea

This time on a whaler, voyaging to the freezing and burning extremes of the earth,

facing unknown spirits of the sea

He experiences the exhilaration and terror of whaling

Life

Death

Faith

Hope

Respect

Our hero grows

• Through loss and abandonment

• Living the cold harsh realities and burning pain

• Surviving, then thriving in isolation

• Finding friendship in strange places

• Learning solitude and loneliness are friends

• Understanding the love he left behind

• Tempered by life

His adventure deepens into seemingly eternal darkness

Sailing the Arctic endless winter’s night

Discovering a light to survival

In the twinkling eyes of helplessness

Rescued

Regretfully leaving friends behind

Homeward Bound

Home Again At Long Last