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Beautiful hardback edition of this beloved bestseller, with a charming new afterword and illustrations. Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow. Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea - 4900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope - through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel.… (lisätietoja)
This was good, it sounded like fun and there were multiple Swallows and Amazons references. i dont usually like nonfiction of any form and have trouble actually reading it, even when i want to, but i really enjoyed this. i think it technically is nonfiction since its travel writing or a memoir or whatever but it still reads like a novel (it still is a novel i think). i found it actually pretty interesting, with him sailing a mirror dinghy (thats what i sail sometimes), and all the places he went and the stuff that happened to him were interesting. i like the writing style, and thought it was quite funny and relatable or something like that. ( )
This was good, it sounded like fun and there were multiple Swallows and Amazons references. i dont usually like nonfiction of any form and have trouble actually reading it, even when i want to, but i really enjoyed this. i think it technically is nonfiction since its travel writing or a memoir or whatever but it still reads like a novel (it still is a novel i think). i found it actually pretty interesting, with him sailing a mirror dinghy (thats what i sail sometimes), and all the places he went and the stuff that happened to him were interesting. i like the writing style, and thought it was quite funny and relatable or something like that. ( )
An utterly delightful read. The delight comes from the snatches of poetry sprinkled at appropriate times into the landscape descriptions, from the little pencil drawings and maps scattered throughout, and from the author's whimsical descriptions of his own foibles and eccentricities (starting from the top, with his sola topi). Inspires one to hit the road, or rather the canals, and spend a year sailing and rowing the length of Europe, getting plenty of sun and exercise and subsisting entirely on salami and tomato sandwiches and the kindness of strangers. ( )
This excellent book makes the efforts of others - not least Patrick Leigh Fermor - look self indulgent, turgid and dull by comparison. It sparkles, like good travel writing should. And like the best travel writing it is about a journey, not about a book the author went on a journey in order to produce. Theroux and Newby might learn more than a thing or two from Mackinnon if they weren't so convinced of the superiority of their plodding talents. I don't think there's any need to say any more than others here have already said quite well, except that I recommend this book highly to the reader. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
This is an account of a journey made from North Shopshire in England to Sulina on the Black Sea, sailing and rowing over three thousand miles in a small Mirror dinghy.
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
And through all this runs a single thread. At times it is the brandy-brown of country brooks; elsewhere it is salt-green flecked with white. Sometimes it is a thread of softest wool, dyed blue-grey. Elsewhere it is stretched steel wire, scratched and harsh. In places it is a ribbon of midnight-blue, spangled with the sequins of stars; or a thread of pure gold that catches the light and runs it up and down its length like liquid in a glass. It is threaded with beads and trinkets along its length: the carved stones of cathedrals, or white quartz beads as cold as marble. There are rich gems strung on the stone: garnets red as fire-coals, sapphires flashing like kingfishers, topazes set in gold. But in all its length, it is unbroken, a single thread of water-green laid from one end of the map to the other.
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Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Jack de Crow is ready for her new life, and I for mine.
Beautiful hardback edition of this beloved bestseller, with a charming new afterword and illustrations. Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow. Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea - 4900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope - through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel.
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