Mischief in Patagonia An Intolerable Deal of Sea One Halfpennyworth of Mountain 2015th Edition by HW Tilman ISBN 1909461164 9781909461161

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ISBN 10: 1909461164
ISBN 13: 9781909461161
Author: HW Tilman

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 her for deep-sea voyaging, and recruited a crew for this 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.

Mischief in Patagonia An Intolerable Deal of Sea One Halfpennyworth of Mountain 2015th Edition Table of contents:

I. A False Start

II. A Real Start

III. The First Leg

IV. The Long Haul

V. The Magellan Straits

VI. Punta Arenas

VII. The Magellan Straits (Western End)

VIII. Into the Channels

IX. Peel Inlet

X. The Calvo Glacier

XI. The Calvo Pass

XII. Lake Argentino and Back

XIII. A Near Thing

XIV. The Pacific

XV. Valparaiso to the Panama Canal

XVI. Rolling Home

Record of Earlier Attempts to Cross the Ice-Cap

Two Summers Before the Mast

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