Far to the north of Russia, across the cold waters of the Barents
Sea, lies the desolate archipelago known as Franz Josef Land.
Hidden away still further to the north and west of those islands is
one of the most inaccessible and least known seas on this planet -
the Queen Victoria Sea. In his fifth book of voyages, Roger Taylor
describes his successful attempt to sail singlehanded into those
lonely and usually icebound waters in his largely self-built and
engineless yacht Mingming II. On the way he weathers the most
northerly point of the Svalbard islands before sailing due east
along 81 DegreesNorth to the north-west coast of Franz Josef Land.
Pack-ice would normally render such a route impossible. This
voyage, which linked the endpoints of Taylor's two previous Arctic
voyages to the north-west and north-east of Svalbard, marks the
culmination of nearly fifty years of small-boat ocean sailing.
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