George Millar

[dgadee]

I picked up a 2nd hand book by someone I had never heard of - George Millar, "A White Boat from England" - and thought it a good read. Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea (quite complex vocabulary) but about taking a boat to Med in 1950 along Portugal and Spain. I looked him up on Wikipedia and saw he had worked with the French resistance and wrote about it in "Maquis" - when I got that I found it such a good read I couldn't put it down. Currently on "Isabel and Sea" - taking a boat through France and Italy immediately after WWII. Perhaps a bit long, but the perspective on a recovering Europe is well worth a look.

 

[bikedaft]

Not heard of him, thanks for the heads up

Have prdered up his bruneval raid book

Sailing books look good too, cheers

 

[baggypipes]

his boat "truant" of "isobel &the sea" was for sale in bristol a couple of years ago, not sure where she is now.

 

[James_Calvert]

Oyster River is the one I've read. I think it was recently republished. George and Isabel have Amokura then, a 50 something foot yawl, after Serica. We've not yet sailed to the Golfe du Morbihan where the book is largely set, but I loved the tale and will go there some day to see the places for real.

Loved a line in the earlier part of the book : "it always rains in Plymouth".

Well it always did when I was a child.