From the author of Three Years in a Twelve-Foot Boat comes an expedition of even grander scope, this time with Ginny, his brave sweetheart. Together they fashion a tiny craft in which they row and sail from Florida to the Caribbean along the coast of Central and South America.

Though storm-battered and robbed at knife-point, they ascend the Orinoco River to a remote stream connecting with the Amazon. They descend this to Manaus, then climb another tributary southward through “landlocked” Bolivia. After a portage they transit the world’s largest swamp, then float down the Paraguay into Argentina. Returning via other rivers, they pause to have a son. Steve sails homeward alone to safeguard Ginny and baby George, but shipwrecks in surf.

Written with humor and keen observation, The Five-Year Voyage is the honest account of an unprecedented odyssey, augmented by Ginny’s able photography. Stow away with a proven storyteller on a truly mind-blowing voyage.