The Lugworm Chronicles by Ken Duxbury

The Lugworm Chronicles by Ken Duxbury

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The Lugworm Chronicles by Ken Duxbury

'Lugworm on the Loose' describes how Ken and B quit the rat race and explored the Greek islands under sail. 'Lugworm Homeward Bound' recounts their voyage home from Greece to England. 'Lugworm Island Hopping' has Ken and B exploring the Scilly Isles and the Hebrides.
KEN DUXBURY was born in 1923, entered the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman early in the Second World War, and gained his Commission in the ­Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve shortly after. Later he spent five years demolishing wrecks around the coast of Great Britain—a ticklish job involving the use of large quantities of high explosive from small open boats operating from a parent ship in the open sea. After transfer back to the Royal Navy he held his own command before retiring in 1954 and embarking on a four-year cruise in his fourteen-ton yacht. In 1958 he took up journalism and also founded a highly successful sailing school in North Cornwall. As Principal of this school he gained many thousand hours’ experience of instructing complete beginners in handling small sailing dinghies. He later co-founded a boatbuilding firm. He retired from business in 1970 to take up full time writing, and in later years was active as an artist from his home high on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Ken died in 2016, aged ninety-two, having lived to see readers old and new enjoy his 'Lugworm' tales once more in print.
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ISBN 13 9781907206559
ISBN 10 1907206558
Title The Lugworm Chronicles
Author Ken Duxbury
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Lodestar Books
Year published 2022-05-05
Number of pages 524
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