Parsonsheath
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Ann who?
Just what I thought when I read "My Ship is so small"about this woman's voyage just after the war to the states in her 23 foot yawl, and though I found the book a reasonable read it was not one I could not put down!
All that changed when I found and finished "Last Voyage" which was the first of her sailing books, and set the scene for what she did later. This was a brutally honest story of a life with ups and downs, dreams and failures, set in the immediate post war period that I thought Neville Shute had made his own.
The lines that summed it up for me were "To have faith in ones beliefs, to follow an aim to the end is a fundamental necessity. Otherwise the whole pattern of life is pure chance, a miasma and a mockery, and nothing is worth the doing or trying. As lief be a blade of grass, and live out one's unknown purpose unreasoned."
Now I have read this book I can appreciate just how wrong my take was, and what a will that woman had.
As the say on ebay, "Recommended" not half!
Just what I thought when I read "My Ship is so small"about this woman's voyage just after the war to the states in her 23 foot yawl, and though I found the book a reasonable read it was not one I could not put down!
All that changed when I found and finished "Last Voyage" which was the first of her sailing books, and set the scene for what she did later. This was a brutally honest story of a life with ups and downs, dreams and failures, set in the immediate post war period that I thought Neville Shute had made his own.
The lines that summed it up for me were "To have faith in ones beliefs, to follow an aim to the end is a fundamental necessity. Otherwise the whole pattern of life is pure chance, a miasma and a mockery, and nothing is worth the doing or trying. As lief be a blade of grass, and live out one's unknown purpose unreasoned."
Now I have read this book I can appreciate just how wrong my take was, and what a will that woman had.
As the say on ebay, "Recommended" not half!
