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Addicted to Adventure is an outstandingly interesting autobiographical account of Bob Shepton‘s sailing adventures. The first half of Shepton’s life – Royal Marines, ordained minister, teaching at various boarding schools, years of committed rock climbing – is dealt with quickly! The bulk of the book starts after his retirement and describes his polar sailing journeys.…
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey – Maturin series was published between 1969 and 1999. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars, and is centred around the friendship between Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and Stephen Maturin, surgeon and spy. There is high adventure, the descriptions of RN sailing vessels and life aboard are consistently accurate,…
Books ask us to create images to accompany the words. This encourages our imagination. But, in Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Expedition, photos of the actual raft used to cross the Pacific help us to understand the epic nature of the journey. By showing us the balsa logs lashed with hemp ropes that comprised the raft, they…