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 …
At the Russian Base some years ago they even banned chess as being too inflammatory, after one Soviet scientist killed his opponent with an axe. I think surviving in …
Ice Warriors Although even the ancient Greeks were convinced there was a southern land territory, it still remained unknown or at least undiscovered for most of the first two …
I had high hopes of Figaro’s winning the Fastnet, which is the finest of all races from the navigator’s viewpoint. Nearly every mile of the 600-mile long course requires …