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  • Skip Novak on Sailing

    Words of Wisdom from 50 Years Afloat

    de Skip Novak ...
    Skip Novak is revered around the world for his sailing adventures. In this book he brings together the sum of his knowledge and the wisdom of his experience so you can follow in his wake – or create your own.Drawing from his longstanding column for Yachting World, Skip has curated, edited and updated his original missives alongside brand new material to make a collection that is both thought ... Leer más

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  • The Risk in Being Alive

    One Man's Adventures Across the Planet

    de Brian Hancock ...
    Diving off a Jamaican waterfall, evading a charging black rhino in the veldt, running naked through the streets of South Africa, nearly drowning off the coast of Brazil—such adventures and many more are recounted in this personal collection of travel essays about one man's journey following the cardinal winds. Infused with a dry sense of humor and an observant sense of place, these stories cascade ... Leer más

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  • Mischief goes South

    Every herring should hang by its own tail

    de H.W. Tilman, Janet Verasanso ...
    Series Libro 10 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.'So observes H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.In 1966, after a succession of eventful and successful voyages in the high latitudes of the Arctic, Tilman and his pilot cutter Mischief ... Leer más

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  • Snow on the Equator

    Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 1 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.'For H.W. 'Bill' Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was one of the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering climber and sailor who held exploration above all else. He ... Leer más

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  • China to Chitral

    Mountains are the beginning and end of all scenery

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 11 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    In China to Chitral H.W. 'Bill' Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before escaping to a crumbling British Empire with a crossing of the Karakoram to the new nation of Pakistan.In 1951 there still persisted a legend that a vast mountain, higher than Everest, was to be found in the region, a good ... Leer más

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  • In Mischief's Wake

    In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 12 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had seldom been out of my thoughts.'The first of the three voyages described in In Mischief's Wake gives H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's account of the final voyage and loss of Mischief, the Bristol Channel pilot ... Leer más

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  • Mischief in Greenland

    Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains

    de H.W. Tilman, Annie Hill ...
    Series Libro 6 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure and mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.'H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa and the Himalaya and further developed in his early sailing adventures in the southern hemisphere, was honed to perfection with his discovery of ... Leer más

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  • Mischief among the Penguins

    Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.

    de H.W. Tilman, Tom Cunliffe ...
    Series Libro 4 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.'So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience: ' Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary, playing double ... Leer más

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  • Mischief in Patagonia

    An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 2 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    '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 ... Leer más

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  • Mostly Mischief

    Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level

    de H.W. Tilman, Philip Temple ...
    Series Libro 8 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one's last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.'Mostly Mischief's ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman covering almost 25,000 miles in both Arctic and Antarctic... ... Leer más

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  • High Mountains and Cold Seas

    The life of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman: soldier, mountaineer, navigator

    de J.R.L. Anderson ...
    Series Libro 16 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    Harold William 'Bill' Tilman (1898 –1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else.The son of a Liverpool sugar importer, Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery during WWI. After the war Tilman left for Africa, establishing himself as a coffee grower. He met Eric Shipton ... Leer más

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  • The Ascent of Nanda Devi

    I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it

    de H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Libro 3 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya.Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until 1950.The Ascent of Nanda Devi, Tilman's account of the climb, has been widely hailed as a classic. Keenly o... ... Leer más

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