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When Adrian Hayter set out single-handed from Lymington, England on his thirty-two-foot Albert Strange-designed yawl Sheila II, local betting was seven to one that he would get no further than the English Channel. His destination was New Zealand, and the odds were definitely against him. In 1949 perhaps only eight people had sailed solo around the world, and single-handed long-distance sailing voyages were rare. Adrian, then thirty-four, was a soldier, not a sailor. In the previous decade he had been a close observer of the Partition of India and fought as a soldier in the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency. The latter, Britains brutal reaction to the Communist uprising of 1948, had driven his decision to sail halfway around the world, single-handed. More than sixty years later, and in the thirtieth anniversary year of Adrians death, Lodestar Books is republishing the story of that voyage, Sheila in the Wind, first published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1959. As a sailor, Adrian recounts his foray into celestial navigation, a back-street appendix operation in India, armed escort by Indonesian authorities at sea, and eating barnacles off the hull to avoid starvation. As a writer he is trying to make sense of the humanitarian disasters that brought him to this voyage. Sheila in the Wind is more than a report of a 13,000-mile adventure; its a story of the human spirit.… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"A blessed companion is a book" - JERROLD
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
I dedicate this book to all those of varied colour, creed, social status and occupation - some of them I still write to, but I never even knew the names of most - who without thought of reward helped me on my way.
"It is nothing," they said, but without that "nothing" my own efforts would not have been enough.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Sheila II is a 32-foot gaff-rigged yawl, designed by Albert Strange and built by Dickie in 1911.
(Author's note).
The greatest difficulty in writing a book such as this is to reconcile the two widely conflicting aspects of it, aspects which in truth cannot be separated.
(Preface).
Some London papers printed the news that I was about to sail, and this was followed over the next week by a flood of more than a hundred letters from people who wanted to come with me.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The room was just the same, the fireside and the mantelpiece and the letters behind the clock; and I knew I'd never been away from the home they had kept so safe.
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When Adrian Hayter set out single-handed from Lymington, England on his thirty-two-foot Albert Strange-designed yawl Sheila II, local betting was seven to one that he would get no further than the English Channel. His destination was New Zealand, and the odds were definitely against him. In 1949 perhaps only eight people had sailed solo around the world, and single-handed long-distance sailing voyages were rare. Adrian, then thirty-four, was a soldier, not a sailor. In the previous decade he had been a close observer of the Partition of India and fought as a soldier in the Second World War and the Malayan Emergency. The latter, Britains brutal reaction to the Communist uprising of 1948, had driven his decision to sail halfway around the world, single-handed. More than sixty years later, and in the thirtieth anniversary year of Adrians death, Lodestar Books is republishing the story of that voyage, Sheila in the Wind, first published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1959. As a sailor, Adrian recounts his foray into celestial navigation, a back-street appendix operation in India, armed escort by Indonesian authorities at sea, and eating barnacles off the hull to avoid starvation. As a writer he is trying to make sense of the humanitarian disasters that brought him to this voyage. Sheila in the Wind is more than a report of a 13,000-mile adventure; its a story of the human spirit.