Mischief in Patagonia
Author: Harold William Tilman
Publisher:
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780246134219
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Author: Harold William Tilman
Publisher:
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780246134219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H.W. Tilman
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1909461172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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 for the romance of the sea with, at his journey's end, mountains and glaciers at a smaller scale; and the less explored they were, the better he would like it. Within a couple of years he had progressed from sailing a 14-foot dinghy to his own 45-foot pilot cutter Mischief, readied for her deep-sea voyaging, and recruited a crew for his most ambitious of private expeditions. Well past her prime, Mischief carried Tilman, along with an ex-dairy farmer, two army officers and a retired civil servant, safely the length of the North and South Atlantic oceans, and through the notoriously difficult Magellan Strait, against strong prevailing winds, to their icy landfall in the far south of Chile. The shore party spent six weeks crossing the Patagonian ice cap, in both directions, returning to find that their vessel had suffered a broken propeller. Edging north under sail only, Mischief put into Valparaiso for repairs, and finally made it home to Lymington via the Panama Canal, for a total of 20,000 nautical miles sailed, in addition to a major exploration 'first' all here related with the skipper's characteristic modesty and bone-dry humour, and many photographs.
Author: Cambridge University Press
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Published: 2003-03
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ISBN-13: 9780521066372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold William Tilman
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 988
ISBN-13: 9780898861433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMischief in Patagonia; Mischief Among the Penguins; Mischief in Greenland; Mostly Mischief; Mischief Goes South; In Mischief's Wake; Ice with Everything; and Triumph and Tribulation.
Author: H. William Tilman
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9788897173908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. W. Tilman
Publisher:
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781909461161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWell past her prime, 45-foot pilot cutter Mischief carried H.W. Tilman, along with an ex-dairy farmer, two army officers and a retired civil servant, safely the length of the North and South Atlantic oceans, and through the notoriously difficult Magellan Strait, against strong prevailing winds, to their icy landfall in the far south of Chile. The shore party spent six weeks crossing the Patagonian ice cap, in both directions, returning to find that their vessel had suffered a broken propeller. Edging north under sail only, Mischief put into Valparaiso for repairs, and finally made it home to Lymington via the Panama Canal, for a total of 20,000 nautical miles sailed, in addition to a major exploration first all here related with the Skipper's characteristic modesty and bone-dry humour, and many photographs.
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Publisher: CUP Archive
Published:
Total Pages: 222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah J. Maas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1526634244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE FIRST BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES AND A TIKTOK SENSATION 'With bits of Buffy, Game Of Thrones and Outlander, this is a glorious series of total joy' STYLIST Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she kills the predator and takes its prey to feed herself and her family. But the wolf was not what it seemed, and Feyre cannot predict the high price she will have to pay for its death... Dragged away from her family for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding even more than his piercing green eyes suggest. As Feyre's feelings for Tamlin turn from hostility to passion, she learns that the faerie lands are a far more dangerous place than she realized. And Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever. _________________________ Sarah J. Maas's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into 37 languages. Discover the tantalising, sweeping romantic fantasy, soon to be a major TV series, for yourself.
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1988-06-07
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 1101503211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBruce Chatwin’s debut novel: “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope” (The Atlantic) In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.