Friday, July 9, 2010

Francis Chichester

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Chichester’s voyage was a classic of its kind. His book is a classic document of self punishing endurance. Chichester was in his own way an explorer in the tradition of Scott and Shackleton. Unlike Scott and Schackleton, in these pages he bares himself and his mood swings to the reader’s gaze, and one is privileged to be his intimate on this loneliest and most harrowing voyages.” Jonathan Raban




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