The Fire and the Rose

About the Book

This is the remarkable story of a successful businessmans 7,661-mile solo circumnavigation of the eastern United States and Canada in a 31-foot outboard boat. It is a story of risk, adventure and special people and places. Above all, it is about engaging lifes challenges and living life to the maximum.

About the Author

Robert Griffith Turner, Jr. was born at Schoffield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii, in 1938. According to family lore, a notice posted in the maternity ward at Schoffield read: "No Children Allowed." He has been searching for his inner child ever since. Robert is self-employed as a freelance writer, artist-illustrator, and media designer. The author of nonfiction works, novels, and stage plays, he is also an adjunct in the Virginia Tech Department of Sociology. He lives in the mountains of Virginia, in Blacksburg, with a cat named Merlin.