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The Temptress Voyages - SIngle-handed Passage, Temptress Returns (Paperback)
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The Temptress Voyages - SIngle-handed Passage, Temptress Returns (Paperback)
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Loot Price R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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Sailing six thousand miles in eighty days, Allcard makes the
classic southern route trade-wind crossing westward, and not
without incident-severe gales, thief-catching in Spain, avoiding a
seductive blonde in Gibraltar, encountering sharks and shoals of
flying fish, and narrowly escaping falling overboard to his death
when knocked out by gear falling from aloft. Allcard's plan to
dodge the worst of the hurricane season on his return voyage is not
accommodated by the elements. Through gales and headwinds, and one
terrible storm, he takes seventy-four days to reach the Azores from
New York, arriving minus his mizzen mast, desperately exhausted,
injured, and hungry. The next leg, to Casablanca, is enlivened by a
female stowaway, before he makes a safe return to England. Whether
describing the pleasures or the trials, the phosphorescent nights
or the storms, the operation of his ship or his own introspections,
Edward Allcard eloquently conveys his deep appreciation of the sea,
and the escape from modern civilisation it offers him.
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