Sailing with the Admiral

Manufacturer: Lodestar Books
SKU: BKS9781907206467
Manufacturer part number: 5611487035550
GTIN: 9.78191E+12
Vendor: Arthur Beale
€14.16
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A conversation with the past Martin O'Scannall 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. ISBN 978-1-907206-46-7; 216 x 156mm, 140pp. Softcover with sewn binding, cover flaps and matt lamination.
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