A High-Speed Sea Action for the Environment -- New Book is a Narrative Poem That Tells an Engaging Story About High-Speed Boat Racing While Unleashing Forces of Idealism in the Service to The Environment

LAUREL FORK, Va., Nov. 26, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- From the creative mind of Stephen Alan Saft comes an engrossing modern epic. Be all set as Murdoch McLoon And His Windmill Boat splashes some high-speed action at the sea.

What happens when a half-mad poet and inventor of a new kind of boat challenges the whole schooner fleet of Golden Cove to a race of Moon Muddy Bay? The result is an unleashing of the forces of idealism in service to the world's major problems including the environment. Filled with illustrations, Murdoch McLoon And His Windmill Boat is a narrative poem that tells a fascinating tale emphasizing unconventional thinking and high-speed action. When the half-mad poet and inventor invites the entire Schooner Fleet of Golden Cave to a race, more people get involved, adding more tension to the event. What the stakeholders do not know is that something terrible is waiting for them at sea. What could it be and who will survive in this contest? Read the book to find out.

If you're up for intense action, clever poetry and struggle for victory, Murdoch McLoon And His Windmill Boat: An Epic For Our Time is one book you would not dare miss. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.

About the Author

Stephen Alan Saft, also known as S.A. Saft, is a writer of essays, novels, plays and poetry. As a poet, Saft has written over a hundred poems, many of which he has presented in public readings. Saft's poetry is a combination of blank verse, free verse and rhyming pieces, some of which were written to be performed with music. Saft has given poetry readings in Virginia, Maine, Vermont, California, Texas, New Jersey, New York, and Washington DC, in some cases to the accompaniment of a jazz band. For a sampling of Saft's various writings, visit http://www.sasaftwrites.com. He currently lives in Blue Ridge region of Southwest Virginia.

      Murdoch McLoon And His Windmill Boat * by Stephen Alan Saft
                        An Epic For Our Time
                  Publication Date: July 16, 2008
         Trade Paperback; $15.99; 64 pages; 978-1-4363-3488-4
         Cloth Paperback; $24.99; 64 pages; 978-1-4363-3489-1

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