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At the end of this unpleasant three days I was only 186 miles south-west of Plymouth. My chest was hurting me on one side where I had been thrown …
Antarctica is also the iciest place on Earth and is capped by an ice sheet up to 4,800 metres at its thickest part but on average it is 2,160 …
Our Land: Nunavut 1 April 1999 is possibly the most historic date in the history of the Inuit. On that date an area of land, bigger than Western Europe, …
Flowers at Camp Hazen Andy asks us to sign eight, small, white cards as mementoes of the occasion and for his use. We are happy and honoured to do …
Stromness Bay. Three months later, arriving by 30 August, Shackleton returned to Elephant Island to rescue his entire crew, not losing one; a survival record totalling 590 days on …
I said, ‘It seems all right to me; in fact Sheila and I were saying how attractive the yacht looked.’ ‘Oh well,’ said Robert, ‘if you are satisfied, that’s …
I was going to race my new yacht Gipsy Moth III which had been launched the previous September. She had been built during my illness, and few new yachts …
TRANSATLANTIC SOLO A solo race across the Atlantic from east to west was the greatest yacht race that I had ever heard of, and it fired my imagination. Three …
Then Sheila said that if only I could get together enough strength to stand moving, she would take me to a nature-cure place in the country. I made a …
‘It’s cancer all right; the negative report means only that it is not active at the moment. That often happens.’ Sheila persuaded the chief surgeon to carry out another …