Mostly Mischief Including the first ascent of a mountain to start

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one’s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.’＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Mostly Mischief＜/strong＞＜/em＞’s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by ＜strong＞H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman＜/strong＞ covering almost 25,000 miles in both ＜strong＞Arctic＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞Antarctic＜/strong＞ waters.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The first sees the pilot cutter ＜em＞Mischief＜/em＞ retracing the steps of ＜strong＞Elizabethan explorer John Davis＜/strong＞ to the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage. Tilman and a companion land on the north coast and make the hazardous crossing of ＜strong＞Bylot Island＜/strong＞ while the remainder of the crew make the eventful passage to the southern shore to recover the climbing party. Back in England, Tilman refuses to accept the condemnation of ＜em＞Mischief＜/em＞’s surveyor, undertaking costly repairs before heading back to sea for a first encounter with the ＜strong＞East Greenland＜/strong＞ ice.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Between June 1964 and September 1965, Tilman is at sea almost without a break. Two eventful voyages to East Greenland in ＜em＞Mischief＜/em＞ provide the entertaining bookends to his account of the five-month voyage in the Southern Ocean as skipper of the schooner ＜em＞Patanela＜/em＞. Tilman had been hand-picked by the expedition leader as the navigator best able to land a team of Australian and New Zealand climbers and scientists on ＜strong＞Heard Island＜/strong＞, a tiny volcanic speck in the Furious Fifties devoid of safe anchorages and capped by an unclimbed glaciated peak. In a separate account of this successful voyage, Colin Putt describes the expedition as uniqueーthe first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。