...Every night, almost without fail for nine weeks, I had the same nightmare between 3 and 4 o'clock. I was in the air flying, when my vision went completely and I waited in fearful darkness for the inevitable crash. Usually I woke to find myself clawing at a window or a wall trying to escape. In...
Surprisingly, I had never heard of Sir Francis Chichester or of his book Gypsy Moth Circles the World until I found and bought a copy at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney several years ago. I love accounts of true sailing adventures, and when I recently rediscovered this book on m...
Very technical tome. I only understood the bare minimal of the details. I did find his style of giving away future events i.e. "I found the aluminum boom to be quite light and manageable. This was to prove to be an erroneous assumption" annoying. The HUGE events that he alludes to end up being d...