Sailing novels - fiction and non-fiction

There's a book called The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow: A Mirror Odyssey from North Wales to the Black Sea by A.J. Mackinnon which I'm reading at the moment.

It's about an Aussie who sails, rows and drags a mirror dinghy from the Welsh border down the river Severn, up the Kennet and Avon Canal, then down the Thames, across the English Channel and ends up in the Black Sea.

Worth a read.

One Summer's Grace, by Libby Purves (of Radio 4 fame). A very readable account of escape from the high pressure life with family to cruise around the coast of GB. Needless to say (and as always with sailing) not everything goes according to plan.

Peter Blake's Biography - can't recall the title.

Lawrie Smith's account of his Whitbread campaign on Silk Cut - title amnesia again  . Great read, though.

Any of Clare Fancis' books - fiction and non-fiction.

When I was a little kid, I read and re-read a travelogue about the Kon Tiki expedition. I can't remember who wrote the book, but it was someone close to Thor Heyerdahl. The anthropological theories were a bit abstruse but the building of the raft and the everyday life on board made fascinating reading.  

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