White Boat from England - George Millar

White Boat from England

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2015
Lodestar Books (Verlag)
978-1-907206-29-0 (ISBN)
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This voyage from Lymington to the Riviera should not be noteworthy, but this is a world recovering from war, and the author a man 'incapable of writing a dull sentence'.
The third of George Millar's masterful sailing and travel narratives to be republished many decades after their original appearance. On the face of it, this voyage from Lymington to the Riviera should not be noteworthy, but this is a world recovering from war, and the author a man 'incapable of writing a dull sentence'. As Peter Bruce states in his Introduction, "One soon becomes captivated, as one always is, by George's unusually acute powers of observation and his ability to ascertain and record exactly what was going on at every stop - George Millar's accounts of his adventures are always like a box of jewels each giving dazzling pleasure and glorious entertainment, and never better than in this deservedly revived book."

George Millar DSO MC was born in 1910. He read architecture at Cambridge, but became a journalist. During the Second World War he served initially with the Rifle Brigade, escaped from a German POW camp, and went on to work with the French Resistance, for which he was awarded the _Legion d'Honneur_ and the _Croix de Guerre_. After the war he farmed in Dorset and explored Europe with his wife Isabel, in a succession of classic yachts. George Millar died in 2005.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.7.2015
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
Reisen Reiseberichte Europa
ISBN-10 1-907206-29-9 / 1907206299
ISBN-13 978-1-907206-29-0 / 9781907206290
Zustand Neuware
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