Море синеет…

“There are many people in the world who don’t like the speed of modern airliners and planes. They prefer to travel the old fashioned way, on tiny shells,” writes Peter Heaton, an English yachtsman and writer. It is precisely such restless people who are the heroes of his book. Joshua Slocham, the first solo navigator to circumnavigate the world; Voss, the glorious sailor; R. McMullen, who died on a solo voyage; Harry Pidgeon, an excellent writer and craftsman, who built his Islander with his own hands; Chichester and the Hiscock couple are not a complete list of people “enchanted by the sea” about whom the book tells. The author does not forget about “the stage on which the events unfolded.” Winds, currents, tidal phenomena, storms, features of various parts of the World Ocean - all these are also important characters in Heaton’s entertaining book.