SOLITARY JOURNEY: The Third Voyage of the "Nova Espero"

Original publication date: 1954
Epigraph: [None]
Dedication: Pour mes enfants Richard Charles and Catherine Elisabeth
First words: Out of a low grey sky blew a fresh west wind, and the tide rushing down the Solent, over the Shingles and past the Needles, raised steep tumbling seas. In the Nova Espero I followed the tide and lurched and splashed my... (show all) way into the English Channel. A few hundred yards away were my friend Stanley Smith and his father in the Phoenix, a twenty-foot sailing boat very similar to the Nova Espero. They shouted farewells, took some photographs, and then headed back to Yarmouth, our home port in the Isle of Wight.
Last words: (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)When near the entrance to Yarmouth harbour, a row-boat put out to meet me. It was Stan Smith and his father, welcoming me back home.

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