by clivetho | Oct 14, 2021 | The Armchair Sailor
THE UNLIKELY VOYAGE of Jack de Crow A.J. Mackinnon Black Inc books, 2014 This has to be one of my favourite sailing books. I think it’s the combination of the amazing achievement and the beautiful, lyrical prose with which the tale is described. Anyone who has ever...
by clivetho | Sep 30, 2021 | The Armchair Sailor
Erebus, The Story Of A Ship, by Michael Palin 2018, Arrow Books Erebus is not a well-known name or ship, despite achieving amazing feats in exploration. In the early 1840s Erebus was dispatched to discover the south Magnetic Pole and travelled further south than any...
by clivetho | Aug 18, 2021 | The Armchair Sailor
My Old Man and The Sea, by David and Daniel Hays. Anchor Books, 1996 Not to be confused with The Old Man and The Sea, the classic by Hemingway, this story is a moving recount of a father and son’s journey as they sail around Cape Horn. David Hays, a theatre director...
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