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I set to work and made up a list of the material and replacements I should need. This made fourteen pages. Then began a strange, but strangely happy period …
‘Hang on, Roley! I shouted. ‘Hang on!’, and one of us on each side of the engine, feet jammed against a niche in the concrete at the edge of …
There were one or two tough characters in the pit, among them an ex-docker from Sydney Harbour, a lean long-legged Communist, who was annoyed one day because a deputy …
Leaving New York, I headed south-east to sail along the 39th parallel to the Azores. Ninety miles from land we passed close to Texas Tower Number 4, a fantastic-looking …
I stepped straight from forty days alone at sea into a high-powered businessman’s life, with hundreds of letters and telegrams to answer, newspaper and radio interviews, and one or …
NEW YORK AND NEW PLANS The clear strong voice which had hailed me as I approached New York belonged to Captain Jim Percy, Senior Captain of BOAC, and I …
I sighted my first mark – Block Island at the north entrance to Long Island Sound. I embarked on an orgy of cleanliness. Sheila had made a strong statement …
I moved on to a chart with New York at the other end of it. I had sailed 3,516 miles, but had no idea of how I was placed …