Ferenc Máté

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Ferenc Máté (born 1945 in Hungary) left Hungary after the revolution to emigrate with his mother to Vancouver, British Columbia. He has lived in British Columbia, Alberta, California, New York, Paris, and now resides on a farm in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter. For much of their first twenty years together, Máté and his wife lived on sailboats, travelling the world, photographing and occasionally publishing books and calendars on sailboats. His first book, From a Bare Hull, self-published in the 1970s, is still considered one of the best books on boat-building ever written. In addition to sailing books, Máté has written a memoir about adjusting to Italian life, The Hills of Tuscany, and a book-length essay on the environmental impact of the excesses of modern lifestyles, A Reasonable Life. His first novel, Ghost Sea, was published in the spring of 2006 and is the first of a series of thrillers involving a Vancouver sea captain, Dugger.