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Through gales and headwinds, and one terrible storm, he takes seventy-four days to reach the Azores from New York, arriving minus his mizzen mast, desperately exhausted, injured, and hungry. The next leg, to Casablanca, is enlivened by a female stowaway, before he makes a safe return to England. Whether describing the pleasures or the trials, the phosphorescent nights or the storms, the operation of his ship or his own introspections, Edward Allcard eloquently conveys his deep appreciation of the sea, and the escape from modern civilisation it offers him.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745409736977,"sku":"NGR9781907206573","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52152801952017,"sku":"GOR012950881","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1907206574.jpg?v=1751028345"},{"product_id":"temptress-returns-rare-book-edward-allcard-1685091067emb","title":"Temptress Returns","description":"1952. 304 pages. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. 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And two years later, on crossing back again, he had become the first yachtsman to sail solo both ways across the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCruising in the high latitudes was a very much more challenging and dangerous business in the days before sailors had access to weather forecasts and modern electronics. Edward Allcard's yacht also lacked an efficient self-steering system, and so, as a single-hander, he often had to spend an entire day or night at the helm. Heavy weather challenged not only his own endurance but also that of his 55-year-old wooden craft.\u003cbr\u003e There were times during the voyage to Cape Horn when the duo seemed to have met their match, and Allcard certainly came perilously close to losing his boat and his life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHaving survived the Horn - and having endured a winter in Tierra del Fuego - Edward Allcard sailed north through the Chilean Channels to Valparaiso.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe wild Patagonian scenery, his encounters with the fast-vanishing Yaghan indians, and his escapades foraging for food and firewood all lived up to Edward Allcard's expectations for this cruise - and thus it was that, some 40 years afterwards, he decided to share them with the world. 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