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Mischief in Patagonia Paperback - An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain (Paperback, New edition)
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Mischief in Patagonia Paperback - An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain (Paperback, New edition)
Series: H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition, 2
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Discovery Miles 3 360
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'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of
penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short,
of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives' heads steam
when they eat marmalade.' So responded H.W. 'Bill' Tilman to his
own realisation that the Himalaya were too high for a mountaineer
now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude for
the romance of the sea with, at his journey's end, mountains and
glaciers at a smaller scale; and the less explored they were, the
better he would like it. Within a couple of years he had progressed
from sailing a 14-foot dinghy to his own 45-foot pilot cutter
Mischief, readied for her deep-sea voyaging, and recruited a crew
for his most ambitious of private expeditions. Well past her prime,
Mischief carried Tilman, along with an ex-dairy farmer, two army
officers and a retired civil servant, safely the length of the
North and South Atlantic oceans, and through the notoriously
difficult Magellan Strait, against strong prevailing winds, to
their icy landfall in the far south of Chile. The shore party spent
six weeks crossing the Patagonian ice cap, in both directions,
returning to find that their vessel had suffered a broken
propeller. Edging north under sail only, Mischief put into
Valparaiso for repairs, and finally made it home to Lymington via
the Panama Canal, for a total of 20,000 nautical miles sailed, in
addition to a major exploration 'first' all here related with the
Skipper's characteristic modesty and bone-dry humour, and many
photographs.
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