Sheila in the Wind: A Story of a Lone Voyage by Adrian Hayter (HQ231)

Published 1959: First Edition, Second Impression / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original red cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket in removable protective wraps. 319 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket. (HQ231)

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When Adrian Hayter set out single-handed from Lymington, England on his 32-foot Albert Strange-designed yawl 'Sheila II', local betting was 7 to 1 that he would get no further than the English Channel. His destination was New Zealand, and the odds were definitely against him. His experiences as a soldier in the dying years of the British Empire drove him to his solitary 6-year quest to reach his homeland under sail. He recounts his foray into celestial navigation, a back-street appendix operation in India, armed escort by Indonesian authorities at sea, and eating barnacles off the hull to avoid starvation. He tries to make sense of the humanitarian disasters that brought him to this voyage. 'Sheila in the Wind' is more than a report of a 13,000-mile adventure; it's a story of the human spirit. [Google Books]