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‘Why not send the story of my record attempt by radiotelephone every day?’ A New Zealand magazine had bought a similar story from me on my 1936 flight. I …
JAPANESE ENCOUNTERS It was five and a half months since I left Wellington, if I included the time spent at Auckland. I wrote, ‘Five and a half months alone …
We left Horta on 3 October. The locals were shaking their heads, and saying that it was too late in the year for a yacht. Sheila was apprehensive, and …
Starbucks 58 West Nile Street Decorative Carving Architect: James Boucher (1875) This listed building features a Starbucks on the ground floor and winged mythical creatures sitting either side of …
I had nightmare visions of what he could do to my bunk and the settees; I had plenty of work without having to cope with that. I soon discovered …
The most important sectors of the island’s economy were farming, pastoralism, fishing and shipping. Our evidence for this is the discovery of ancient jars filled with barley seeds, flour, …
By noon I had made good only 9 miles towards New York, although I had sailed 70 miles. My hands were numb after only twenty minutes of handling ropes …
I first moved to Glasgow in 1996, to work on, amongst other things, the Glasgow International Festival of Design, a precursor to the city’s Year of Design and Architecture …
Shortly before this I sailed out of the Gulf Stream and back into the Labrador current again. I was now in fog, and the sea was greenish. A few …
That day I put my house in order; I filled the petrol tank, the paraffin storage tins and bottles, also the stove, the meths priming cans, swept the carpet, …
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