Mischief in Patagonia [electronic resource] : An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain
H.W. Tilman2015
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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 notorious...
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Author:
H.W. Tilman, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Vertebrate Digital, 2015
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781909461178
Language:
English
BRN:
435434
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |