It is very unlikely that you have heard of W. E. Sinclair — and even we can’t establish what the W. E. stands for. He and various crew undertook a series of impressive cruises in the 1920s from a base at Erith on the River Thames, downstream from London, ranging from Madeira to the Baltic and, very finally, Greenland waters, in a yacht just 22ft in length. Cruises of the Joan is a highly entertaining book combining sailing interest and much ‘local colour’, and is liberally salted with the author’s phlegmatic style, bone-dry humour, and sometimes not entirely ‘PC’ vocabulary. In the first two attributes he may put you in mind of another, we must admit more accomplished, high-latitude sailor and writer; but this book deserves to survive and we are happy to bring it to a new readership.
Read Gavin Atkin’s review at In the Boatshed
Lodestar Library Volume 2
ISBN 978-1-907206-03-0; 190 x 135mm, 246pp, 8pp plates, maps, hardcover with laminated jacket.
Price £15 post-free to the UK.
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