Sailing with the Admiral

A conversation with the past

Martin O'Scannall (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

142 Seiten

2019
Lodestar Books (Verlag)
978-1-907206-46-7 (ISBN)

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Martin O’Scannall loves the old, the eccentric, the offbeat — the quirky if you like; the wandering off into byways, the exploration of half-forgotten snippets of history. And Galicia, his home for the past decade or more, is ideal territory for indulging that taste. Galicia is a time warp: rain-swept, isolated, savage and gentle by turns, as far a cry from the blazing Costas as it is possible to imagine. This book is a conversation with the past, conducted in a very old, engineless gaff cutter, armed with the Admiralty Pilot, a gallant crew, and a sense of the ridiculous. We encounter, but in unexpected ways, the likes of Drake, Nelson, the ill-fated HMS Serpent, Celtic myth and legend, and the reminiscences of those who have gone before, all interspersed with the business of managing an old yacht in the old way: Walker log, paper charts and all. Beginning, as he says it has to be, with the dreaded storm at sea.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.07.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 216 mm
Gewicht	230 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
ISBN-10	1-907206-46-9 / 1907206469
ISBN-13	978-1-907206-46-7 / 9781907206467
Zustand	Neuware