# Afloat

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- Book: [Afloat](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-de-maupassant/afloat) ([Afloat.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-de-maupassant/afloat.md))
- Authors: [Guy de Maupassant](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-de-maupassant), [Douglas Parmée](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-parmee)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-259-9
- Pages: 120
- Published: 2008-04-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Afloat, originally published as Sur l’eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that...