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Book Mischief in Patagonia

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  • Publisher : CUP Archive
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  • Pages : 222 pages

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  • Author : Cambridge University Press
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  • Release : 2003-03
  • ISBN : 9780521066372
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Download or read book Mischief in Patagonia written by Harold William Tilman and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mischief in Patagonia

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  • Author : H. W. Tilman
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  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781909461161
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Mischief in Patagonia written by H. W. Tilman and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well 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.

Book The Eight Sailing mountain exploration Books

Download or read book The Eight Sailing mountain exploration Books written by Harold William Tilman and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mischief 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.

Book Mischief in Patagonia

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Download or read book Mischief in Patagonia written by H.W. Tilman and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Book In Mischief s Wake

Download or read book In Mischief s Wake written by H.W. Tilman and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 cutter in which he had sailed over 100,000 miles to high latitudes in both Arctic and Antarctic waters. Back home, refusing to accept defeat and going against the advice of his surveyor, he takes ownership of Sea Breeze, built in 1899; 'a bit long in the tooth, but no more so, in fact a year less, than her prospective owner'. After extensive remedial work, his first attempt at departure had to be cut short when the crew 'enjoyed a view of the Isle of Wight between two of the waterline planks'. After yet more expense, Sea Breeze made landfall in Iceland before heading north toward the East Greenland coast in good shape and well stocked with supplies. A mere forty miles from the entrance to Scoresby Sound, Tilman's long-sought-after objective, 'a polite mutiny' forced him to abandon the voyage and head home. The following year, with a crew game for all challenges, a series of adventures on the west coast of Greenland gave Tilman a voyage he considered ' certainly the happiest', in a boat which was proving to be a worthy successor to his beloved Mischief.

Book Mischief in Patagonia

Download or read book Mischief in Patagonia written by H. William Tilman and published by . This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Hero

Download or read book The Last Hero written by Tim Madge and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the sailor, mountaineer, and adventurer, called perhaps the greatest explorer of the twentieth century.

Book Technical Report

Download or read book Technical Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mountaineering Literature

Download or read book Mountaineering Literature written by Jill Neate and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.

Book Anderson   s Travel Companion

Download or read book Anderson s Travel Companion written by Compiled by Sarah Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best in travel writing, with both fiction and non-fiction presented together, this companion is for all those who like travelling, like to think about travelling, and who take an interest in their destination. It covers guidebooks as well as books about food, history, art and architecture, religion, outdoor activities, illustrated books, autobiographies, biographies and fiction and lists books both in and out of print. Anderson's Travel Companion is arranged first by continent, then alphabetically by country and then by subject, cross-referenced where necessary. There is a separate section for guidebooks and comprehensive indexes. Sarah Anderson founded the Travel Bookshop in 1979 and is also a journalist and writer on travel subjects. She is known by well-known travel writers such as Michael Palin and Colin Thubron. Michael Palin chose her bookshop as his favourite shop and Colin Thubron and Geoffrey Moorhouse, among others, made suggestions for titles to include in the Travel Companion.

Book Put On Your Boots and Go

Download or read book Put On Your Boots and Go written by James Gregory Catledge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put On Your Boots and Go is a collection of four stories that span over 30 years of traipsing around in the backcountry. The love of the outdoors permeates these stories of decades-old friendships, miles and miles of trails walked, and shared challenges and accomplishments, both on and off the trail.

Book Eric Shipton

Download or read book Eric Shipton written by Peter Steele and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of the renowned adventurer & mountaineer who pioneered the simple alpine-siege style.

Book Technical Report ES

Download or read book Technical Report ES written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Winter in Fireland

Download or read book Winter in Fireland written by Nicholas Coghlan and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures in Patagonia when, taking time off from his job as a schoolteacher in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s, he and Jenny explored the region of southern Argentina and Chile over three successive summers. This time, as they negotiate the labyrinth of channels and inlets around snow-covered Fireland, he reflects on voyages of past explorers: Magellan, Cook, Darwin, and others. Sailing enthusiasts and readers of true adventures will want to add Coghlan's world-wise narrative to their libraries.