William Maconachie and George Gardiner of Marconi Marine, Cliff Pearson of the Sunday Mirror and Matthew Johnston of the GPO Radio Station at Baldock, organized my radio and my schedules with stations all round the world with tremendous ...
That first day hardly boded well for a friendship with my new neighbor , but apparently Douglas ' demanding stomach enabled him to overlook my thoughtless hammering - next day he was back . I hadn't seen Charlie or Bert for quite some ...
A World of My Own is Robin's gripping, uninhibited, moving account of one of the greatest sea adventures of our time. An instant bestseller, it is now reissued for a new generation of readers to be enthralled and inspired.
Originally published in 1970, Robin Knox-Johnston's A World of My Own has become a treasured classic - the dramatic account of the first nonstop, single-handed voyage around the world, for which Knox-Johnston won the Sunday Times Golden ...
This is Robin's uninhibited account of one of the greatest sea adventures of our time.
In what Greene calls My Own World—as opposed to the Common World of shared reality—he accompanies Henry James on a disagreeable riverboat trip to Bogota, is caught in a guerilla crossfire with Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden, strolls in ...
Gathers dream fragments that deal with happiness, other writers, intrigue, politics, war, danger, fear, religion, the writing process, travel, reading, science, love, revenge, crime, talking animals, and death. Graham Greene...